Rotary Youth leadership Award camp 2013, was organised by Rotary Club of Jamshedpur East in association with Jamshedpur Public School-AIWC, to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the school.
The Chief Guest, Ronlad D’Costa, Past District Governor of Rotary Club (Dist 3250) . Mr Jahar Bannerjee, the President of Rotary Club East and Namita Agarwal, Principal Jamshedpur Public School welcomed the gathering . The first session was on Positive Thinking and leadership Development, by Sarvesh Khanna. This session provided a jumpstart to the program, owing to the ready wit and humour provided by Mr. Khanna, while educating them on the importance of having a positive approach to life.
Sunday morning began with a rigorous yoga session conducted by Bhandari followed by a session on ‘Stress Management’ conducted by Nandita Sinha. She discussed the causes and effect of stress, as well as the management of stress in our daily lives. The session concluded with a memory game where students had to remember each others' favourite dish.
After tea break, the second session was a round of Extempore .The various groups had been given a topic each and one members from each, had to come up and speak on it .They were given topics such as ‘Should Housewives Be PaidIJ’, ‘Have We Exchanged Our Golden Heritage For A Pair of Blue JeansIJ’, ‘Has Religion Any Place In Modern SocietyIJ’, ‘Is British Rule Good For IndiaIJ’, ‘Is a Nuclear Family a Boon or a CurseIJ’, ‘Is The Generation Gap Due To The Rigidity Of The Older GenerationIJ’,
The judges for the event were Parineeta Shukla, as well as Nandita Sinha . A feedback session followed right after in which the interactors were encouraged to speak about what they learnt and they shared their views on each event. The chief guest for the closing ceremony was Surekha Nerurkar, Chairperson Jamshedpur Public School. The students were awarded Certificates of Participation as well as Prizes for the group activities.
Each group was named after a mountain peak .Groups had been given points for each and every activity. The results were as follows ,the highest points were awarded to Mt Aconcagua (61 points) followed by Mt Kanchenjunga(60points), Mt Koscuisco followed with 58 points, Mt Blanc & Mt Everest were next with 52 points and Mt Kilimanjaro followed closely with 52 points.
The participating schools were Jamshedpur Public School -AIWC (host school), Vidya Bharti Chinmaya School(Telco), SDSM School, Tagore Academy, AIWC Academy of Excellence, Govind Vidyalaya and Shiksha Niketan School.