DPS, Ranchi hosted the regional forum of IC3 here on Friday. The Principals of more than 80-100 schools (CBSE, ICSE) across Jharkhand and foreign delegates of different universities acrossfive countries were a part of this convention. The representatives from Wayne State University, Ashoka University, Plaksha University, Bennett University, University of Arizona etc participated in the seminar.
The goal of the IC3 Regional Forums is to bring together school leaders (Principals), college, counselors and teachers with university delegates to discuss the transition from high school to college and beyond, focusing on career and college counselling and admissions practices. IC3 provides a great platform to network, learn more and stay up to date with the latest trends in career and college counselling.
Key Note Speaker, Dr. Gopal Pathak appreciated the initiative to help students to choose their career prudently, which best suits their own aspirations, desires, and interests. He appreciated the efforts of IC3 and DPS, Ranchi, which provided a platform to discuss the vital issues related to the career and enables counselors, teachers and principals to interact with universities across the globe. He shared his experience about the culture of classroom teaching in the universities of Stanford and Princeton.
The conference was divided into 4 sessions for a multi-faceted discussion on topics like Counselling Laboratory-Relevance and Impact, Developing Writing Skills in the Liberal Arts, Higher Education Landscape and Emerging Careers and Role of University Panel in Navigating Undergraduate Study Options in India and Abroad.
Ganesh Kohli, who is serving as the Chair of IC3, and has helped to build a platform that is providing a much-needed focus on career and college counselling within high schools. An engineer by education Ganesh Kohli is a teacher and counselor who has founded, nurtured and led multiple education-focused organizations over the past 20 years. In two of his sessions he spoke about how modern education system should adopt a liberal attitude.
Other notable Speakers were Dr. Michael Burns, Shradha Singaurey, Naina Katyal, Lalchhanhimi Purkayastha and Sandeep Saraswal.In one of the segments the Foreign Universities exhibited themselves talking about the career options available in their respective organizations.
Principal Ram Singh of DPS Ranchi extended a warm welcome to Ganesh Kohli, Founder IC3 Movement, Dr. Gopal Pathak , Vice-Chancellor of Jharkhand University of Technology and other dignitaries.