Seminar at Ella Vidyalaya

28th October was selected as the day for the seminar in badulla district. The venue was Ella Maha Vidyalaya. Ten students from CSE 10' batch gathered early in the morning after an exhausting trip from Moratuwa to Bandarawela. After refreshing up at Nilupuls place we headed out on our way to Ella. The students who participated in this great experience was Tharindu Amila, Sameera Nilupul, Nisala Chameera, Ujitha Iroshan, Chathura Gamage, Chamila Dilshan, Dulanga Shashika, Nadeeshan Gunathilaka , Maduranga Sirivardana , Nipun Udara.
We arrived at Ella Madya Maha Vidyalaya at around 8.30am. The Regional Assistant Director of Education of Information Technology Mrs. Namalee  was already there and she had gathered the students and set up everything we needed to conduct our seminar. There were about 100 students from several schools. Ella Madya Maha vidyalaya, Heeloya Maha Vidyalaya, Kithal Ella Vidyalaya were among them.
After the welcome speech by Mrs Namalee we started our seminar. First to go was Ujitha who explained CSE OutReach and its motives. Then Chathura went on to the stage to explain what Information Technology is. Then Nadeeshan did his part by teaching the students about Microsoft Office package. At 12.00 we had the lunch break. Explanations by Chamila on digital logic was very successful and the students were actively participating. Hard ware part was covered by Dulanga. We gave out three prizes which were books on O/L IT. One by one we went through our programme but we had to lose some of our eager listeners because of transportation problems. Chameera did the end speech and gave the students food for their thoughts and made them create a dream to achive the best. How ever we went on and concluded our seminar at 2.00pm cutting short some of the presentations.

After the programme we got feedback from the students and teachers and we had many positive thoughts as well as requests to expand CSE OutReach to a series of Seminars rather than an annual one seminar. They were very grateful and promised to help in the future to conduct more seminars.

Seminar in Jaffna

Date: 27.10.2011 

School: J/ Columbuthurai Hindu Maha Vidyalayam 

Team: Erlilverl, Brusothman, Sanjith, Kamalapaalan, Paranitharan, Sureshkumar, Gitanjali, Thanuja, Thamayanthi 

                    With all kind of medicine to make us to forget the long journey towards North, That day dawned with lots of hopes. According to our schedule, we had the plan to do the seminar in J/Columbuthurai Hindu Maha Vidyalayam. As we planned earlier, we gathered at one of our colleague’s home and started that day’s journey. Nine of us and Seran, Noolaham foundation chief operating officer, were in that crew. It was around 8.30 a.m when we arrived the school. A typical tamils’ welcome was there for us with lots of smiles from that school society. Then we had a small discussion with vice principal(as principal wasn’t there) and ICT teacher. After a short while we arranged everything to start the seminar. The mean time, little by little , Students were entering the hall. The way they looked at us was really indescribable. They were eager to know what we had for them. 

             Vice principal gave a speech at the beginning encouraging us. Sureshkumar started to conduct our seminar introducing the CSE team. For a while he glimpsed on this project saying its objective, mission, vision and current procedures. First session was about Career guidance. It longed around 30 minutes as it had to be done that deep. Basic ideas of computer, History of Computer and operating System slides were analysed deeply by him. Following him, Erlilverl conducted the seminar. He moved through hardware sides of a computer. We brought few materials there to dramatically show the things that they don’t see. He made students to be able to identify all parts in a mother board. Ending that session, we had a 15 minutes break. During this, we gave them milk packets. With refreshments, Second part started. Paranitharan introduced some features regarding networks. Especially the basics of network were the main content of his slides. It moved around 20 minutes. To decorate Parani more, Sanjith took over and continued with internet. He depicted all aspects of social network and general facilities in net. Few websites were suggested for them to get involved in the future. Continuously Brusoth did some aspects of Virus and anti-virus. Finally Seran presented the whole idea about digital library (Noolaham) which helped us to find fund. It was also interesting as it touched their culture to make sure their existence. So entire presentation part concluded with that. 

                       Finally their ICT teacher and vice principal expressed their thanks doing brief speeches. Also we got feedbacks from students to make our future seminars easier. We had a tea party with school staffs. They asked us to come in the future as well. Thus, with great satisfaction and proud, we departed from the school at around 2.30 p.m. Briefly, it was a good experience for all of us. Somehow we crossed every hurdle which laid along our way. And this was some boost to finish rest of the seminars. Specially great thanks for Noolaham foundation to withstand all of us and Our department to instruct and encourage us.... More to go... 

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