The 'academic' component of the EE Program covers multiple pillars of the GenWise Curriculum. These curricular elements will be covered over 2 weeks (4-5 hrs/ day), as follows:
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Week 1: Mathematics, Science, Design and Technology (STEM Focus)
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Week 2: Nature, Society &Individual; Tools for Thinking & Communication (Humanities Focus)
Please click on each week to know (MUCH) more...
While children are free to pick either week, we strongly recommend a balanced exposure to the content over both weeks.

The Writing Workshop

This course is an opportunity to let young writers flourish. Let your young writer own his or her writing and build a powerful voice. These sessions aim to help the most reluctant writer to embrace writing, and to help a proficient writer find newer ways to express their ideas.
Starts
30 June 2020
Time
On Days
Fee (₹, incl taxes)
Audience
About the Course
(This course is targeted at children entering Grades 8, 9, 10 in 2020-21)
The skills developed through creative writing workshops improve literacy abilities, encourage creative thinking and build self-esteem. With the onset of new-age technology, children are moving away from what was once a quintessential part of growing up- reading and writing for pleasure.
This course is based on the approach developed by Donald Graves, considered to be the ‘father of writing education’. This approach introduces students to various strategies, and these are done via mini-lessons. During mini-lessons, teachers help writers choose topics, purposes, and audiences for their writing and offer suggestions to guide the writer's decision-making process. The current course will focus on various types of writing to build creativity, vocabulary and the ability to work under constraints.
Amongst a variety of activities, participants will learn to write poetry, short descriptive passages and other simple and enjoyable forms of writing. The primary aim during these sessions is to help the most reluctant writer to embrace writing, and to help a proficient writer find newer ways to express their ideas. Participants will write short descriptions involving various sensory details to convey a message about the world around us; sensorial writing is more engaging and effective. They will also write Haikus- seventeen syllable poems that describe a moment in time, and try their hand at Cinquains- a similar approach of using syllables to shape an idea into fullness.
A sampling of what occurs when writers gain independence in writing is demonstrated in the newspaper that the instructor’s students put together after a previous workshop: https://wearethefifthestate.wixsite.com/website
About our Facilitator:

Rachit is an electronics engineer who has been designing analog circuits for the past decade. His work experience includes Cosmic Circuits and Cadence Design Systems (which acquired Cosmic Circuits), on the design of integrated circuits for audio codecs, serial interfaces, and phase locked loops amongst other things. He likes to spend his time on reading, understanding audio, building speakers, music, and sports.
Rachit has a Masters degree from the Centre For Electronic Design And Technology at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Muralidhar (aka Murali) is senior mentor and course designer at GenWise with 20+ years of experience in the social sector. In addition to delivering Vocational Training to young adults, he is currently responsible for design, manufacturing and marketing operations at a traditional handicraft (wooden toys) enterprise near Bengaluru. Murali has also delivered training and professional development programs for secondary science teachers and 'making' skills to "gifted students" for around 4 years.
Murali has a bachelor's degree in Engineering from IIT Madras.