Sahyadri Faculty & Students volunteer at “Chetana” Programme, Infosys Campus, Mangaluru
31-May-2018
“Chetana” - Empowering Girls with Technology was launched by the Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka, to nurture and mentor the local talent and empower them with high end technology. The aim of the programme is to provide wings to their dreams. With this aim, the Department, in association with Samsung & Infosys foundation enable girl students who have topped in Secondary School Examination from Government Schools across Karnataka. They handhold them to educate, empower, mentor and support them. These highly talented girls from Karnataka are invited to a week-long residential camp where they are presented with a Samsung Tab each and then provided hands-on training to use it.
This year, “Chetana” was held in Infosys, Mudipu Campus, Mangaluru with 300 best achievers in academic profile undergoing residential training. Various activities were planned during the course of this camp like training sessions to use the tab, exposure to state-of-the-art facility at Infosys and other industry campuses in Mangaluru, group building exercises, sports events, design thinking workshops, movie shows, nature walks, yoga sessions, interaction session with leaders from various domains like science, technology, arts, medicine, sports etc.
Sahyadri Faculty & students have volunteered to assist in the smooth conduct of the programme. The event coordinators from Department of IT, BT and S&T are in praises for the additional support rendered by Sahyadri as volunteers to cater to the needs of the students who have come from various districts of Karnataka.
