Recently I conducted a Photography workshop for students of Y! Parikrama School.
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| school wall painted by students |
I along with Madan, Shakira and Abhinav (all Yahoos) visited Yahoo! Parikrama School last Friday. During our visit apart from conducting the workshop we also got a chance to meet the principal madam. She is a very energetic and charismatic lady. She explained us the way they are running the school and the kind of fantastic result they are getting. The school helps to identify and groom the talent in the students. They keep on conducting acting, music, sports, painting etc. workshops and trainings for their students and even support them to participate in state/national level events. They are trying to build a school in which a child will always happily look forward to go to.It actually reminded me of the school ‘Amir Khan’ build in ‘3 idiots’.
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| a budding photographer |
After little chit chat it was time to get started with my workshop. They escorted me and Madan to the A/V room where students were already sitting and waiting for us. They greeted us – “Good Morning Anna” and I was reminded that I am in Karnataka :P and so we began. I gave them basic information about the history and evolution of Photography, different types of cameras, how to compose a photo and showed them few of the photographs i took to help them understand better. I wanted this workshop to be entertaining for them so after presentation we decided to take them to a nearby park and let them handle the camera. To make it more interesting we announced a competition for them. As we had 3 cameras with us we divided them in 3 groups of 10 and asked them to click 10 photos each member. The group with the best pics will win.
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| 1st price winner |
We spent about an hour in the park, sun was scorching but still the children were not ready to leave as they were really enjoying their time over there. Finally we took cameras from them to make them leave and come back to school. While coming back a boy asked me to visit them again, listening to which another boy asked to come daily :P
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| Principal Madam & Yahoo team |
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After reaching back, along with the teachers we all saw their clicks. By that time Shakira and Abhinav also joined us as they were done with their workshops (painting and astronomy). I was continuously appreciating good clicks and also giving tips as how it could have been better. We did a public poll in the end and decided the winner. Before leaving Principal Madam gave each one of us a greeting made by students and appreciated our efforts
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It was time to leave now as it was already past 1 and we all have to attend 2nd half of the office. So we left with a feeling of completion and hoping to come back and do more for the children
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