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Polly’s field trip report – part 1

22 October 2009 Posted by Karthik

“Hey Karthik…these are details of the engineering awareness that happened on Saturday… I myself am not an engineering student so dont know how much I  understand but wateva i did get im tellin u…”

 

We started of at St. Mary’s Kacherypady by 2:15.There was some delay in their getting there. During this time they distributed diwali ladoos to the kids and had a small-icebreaker by making them sing etc.

They started off with the class soon.The class was taken by IEEE which is a group of engineering colleges*.They began with an introduction to engineering and the different types of engineering and the scope of engineering.Some kids seem interested in civil but most said SOFTWARE!!

Before moving onto a powerpoint presentation they explained what a resistor, capacitor, breadboard etc. was.They also showed kids real live models of all these and also pics of where they’re used in the lab using the projector.

A full half hour was spent explaining to each kids what all of this was.None of them seemed hesitant to ask doubts or questions.

After the class, a live demonstration of one of their projects, a race-car was shown to the kids.It had everythin from a capacitor to a resistor.It also had sensors that prevented it from running into obstacles in the way.

A small memory test followed and I’m happy to say that the kids aced it!!The ones who scored 100% were given chocolates as prizes by the IEEE volunteers.

MAD was represented by Xavier, Aswathy and me.

The convent also gave us tea and snacks!!

It was a very productive and fun day and I’m sure the kids learned much more about engineering than all of us have from school!!

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  • Paul

    dude!!this was a rough draft!!you were supposed to make something out of it n then put it up!!this is not what i meant when i said we’ll send you material and you put placements activities up on the blog!!

  • Paul

    dude!!this was a rough draft!!you were supposed to make something out of it n then put it up!!this is not what i meant when i said we’ll send you material and you put placements activities up on the blog!!

  • http://twitter.com/kaddymaddy Karthik

    Hahaha !!! I know !!!
    But it matches with the prologue :P

  • http://twitter.com/kaddymaddy Karthik

    Hahaha !!! I know !!!
    But it matches with the prologue :P

  • http://www.makeadiff.in/ Jithin

    “It was a very productive and fun day and I’m sure the kids learned much more about engineering than all of us have from school!!”

    Haha !!!

  • http://www.makeadiff.in Jithin

    “It was a very productive and fun day and I’m sure the kids learned much more about engineering than all of us have from school!!”

    Haha !!!

  • Paul

    lol!!the fun way of teaching teaches much more than the school way of teaching!!

  • Paul

    lol!!the fun way of teaching teaches much more than the school way of teaching!!

  • Blesson

    Technically, you don’t really learn engineering from school. You do that in college. :P

    Paul’s reporting apart, :P I guess it was an awesome experience! :)

  • Blesson

    Technically, you don’t really learn engineering from school. You do that in college. :P

    Paul’s reporting apart, :P I guess it was an awesome experience! :)

  • Paul

    i dint say learning engineering in school…i said learning about engineering…read!!n this is not Paul’s reporting….this is Karthik being too lazy to make it into a post before actually putting it up!!

  • Paul

    i dint say learning engineering in school…i said learning about engineering…read!!n this is not Paul’s reporting….this is Karthik being too lazy to make it into a post before actually putting it up!!

  • Paul

    n Karthik if this is what you plan to do everytime I send you points about what happened, for a palcements post, I’d rather you didn’t do the post.

  • Paul

    n Karthik if this is what you plan to do everytime I send you points about what happened, for a palcements post, I’d rather you didn’t do the post.

  • karthik

    dude !! read the whole thing !! the mail fits….besides y do u call full written sentences as points ??

    and besides again, i have always been maintaining the people who accompany the kids to these trip must write rather than passin the buck..! look at my nio post for instance.

  • karthik

    dude !! read the whole thing !! the mail fits….besides y do u call full written sentences as points ??

    and besides again, i have always been maintaining the people who accompany the kids to these trip must write rather than passin the buck..! look at my nio post for instance.

  • Jude

    Getting kids introduced to resistors,sensors etc at this age is worthy of applause.I saw them only in college.Thumbs to the people behind the venture

    And a small correction. IEEE stands for Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and its not a group of engineering colleges

  • Jude

    Getting kids introduced to resistors,sensors etc at this age is worthy of applause.I saw them only in college.Thumbs to the people behind the venture

    And a small correction. IEEE stands for Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and its not a group of engineering colleges

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