Celebrating Learning: Educational Fair at St. Rock's School

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Celebrating Learning: Educational Fair at St. Rock’s School

Posted 8 December, 2014

Science stall at the Education Fair

“Most of the actions can be designed through interactions”

Believing in this idea of promoting educational and intellectual talk among the children the Future Smiles team at Mumbai Smiles collaborated with Deloitte Co. to organize Educational Fair for the students of class 5^th to 10^th grade at St. Rock’s School, Marol.

The idea germinated from the need to give more exposure to children in order to help them make informed career choices, know about scientific inventions, improve general knowledge and develop creative thinking skills through competitions and interactions.

The event was organized at St. Rocks’ School ground and was inaugurated by the Executive Director of Mumbai Smiles, Mr. Narendra Dundu, Trustee of St. Rock’s School Mr. Elvis and Principal of St. Rock’s School Mr. Arun Singh. They interacted with the students and encouraged them to take advantage of such events and benefit their careers. The Fair included several stalls like, Pratham’s Science stall that gave information about various science projects and first discoveries and inventions, Map Reading stall that invigorated students to learn about the geographical location of various states and arrange them, General knowledge stall where students were given an opportunity to test their general knowledge, Maths puzzle game stall where a variety of math games were arranged for children to learn math in a fun way and Career counseling stall where various career options were displayed. All these events ensured that the students got a platform to interact, imagine and question about several things and get the right information from reliable source. The school authorities observed that the children were extremely happy to learn as they play. They said that “it is an excellent opportunity for them to involve with learning in a manner that is creative. It felt great to see them be so enthusiastic about participating in various competitions and learn through the models exhibited at the Fair.”

Deloit employees played an important role in implementing the entire event. They celebrate ‘Impact day’ every year where they engage their employees with communities focusing on social uplifting of underprivileged people. More than 40 employees from Deloitte helped Mumbai Smiles to conduct the event at the School.