In School Activity With School Children
Objective: Engage the students with a lots of activities, under expert guidance. These activities are designed to promote English reading , comprehension, vocabulary and logical thinking.
Activity Description: Volunteer team will travel to a school assigned to you. Each volunteer will be assigned a group of 4-5 students. Volunteers will read a pre-assigned illustrated story with students, using laptops brought by volunteers, ask them questions, create story related activities. As a group, you could interact with the entire class after the event assisted by a facilitator. After the story session, students will answer a short quiz using digital tablets available at school. Volunteers use their laptops and data connection to help with the exercise. After the event, students/volunteers share experience both from the day as well as any relevant life experiences.
Number of Volunteers: For a given school, a minimum of 10 volunteers, maximum of 20 volunteers can participate engaging 40 to 100 students at a time. If there are more volunteers, they need to split among different schools.
At Corporate Office, Model Kit Making
Objective: Create interesting and unique activity based learning for students both in Science and Mathematics. The models/kits produced will not only be fun but also inculcate a different way of thinking and understanding Science and Mathematics concepts.
Activity Description: Volunteers make Science and Mathematics kits in their own offices on a given date. Based on instructions provided earlier, volunteers bring in common stationery or pre-printed material to the office. Under an expert’s guidance, the models are made, packaged as kits. OSAAT will collect them and later distribute to select schools.
Number of Volunteers: A Table of volunteers will have 4-5 employees working as a team, preparing 2-3 kits in a span of hour or two. Depending on the number of volunteers available, and the amount of time you can spare for this (typically half a day), multiple kits of different types can be created. Exact number of kits, the type, can be determined based on a conversation with OSAAT faciltator who will discuss with a team lead of your office to help prepare for this volunteering activity.
Rules/Guidelines
- All participants need to register with the participating corporate entity and a list of such participants needs to be shared with OSAAT in advance.
- Corporates are requested to bear the cost and pay for nominal expenses incidental to the event. Such payments made to OSAAT will be acknowledged with an 80G receipt. These costs are waived for exisitng corporate sponsors of OSAAT projects
- The registrant team lead/representative will be expected to attend scheduled briefing meetings about the event on a mutually agreed day. If the meeting is not attended and if OSAAT sees low interest, it may cancel the volunteer event.
- OSAAT team will support the volunteer activity with specific guidelines and instructions. Each Volunteer activity could be different depending on date, school, age of children.
- OSAAT is not responsible for any injury to participants which may result during their participation in the event. All participants have a responsibility to take all necessary precautions to ensure their own safety and the safety of others in their presence.
- Volunteers /corporate sponsors have to bear the cost of transport, materials, food and any other incidental expenses.
- OSAAT team does not guarantee the volunteer event and may cancel with a day's notice when there are unforseen circumstances. OSAAT is not liable for any financial expenses on behalf of the volunteer team.