A faculty cricket match was held in the
memory of the late Prof. Suresh Ramaswamy.
Student volunteers made arrangements for the
game including the equipment. It was a 10
over game, and it was real fun to see our
teachers try their hand at batting and bowling.
They themselves had a great time and we were
flooded by questions of when we would arrange a similar contest for them in the future.
Dr. Raghu was the winning captain of the day,
while Dr. Sachin Waigaonkar was proclaimed
Man of the Match for his exploits with the bat.
This new idea was quite successful.
Over 1000 handwritten messages
were delivered to the faculty and
students of the college to their hostel
rooms and chambers. It was a pleasant surprise for the receivers to wake
up and find out what all people had
to say about them.
This event presented an opportunity
Wish Tree was a new concept for our
for all the BITSians on campus to
campus. It was aimed at collecting
share their talents and knowledge
contributions from the faculty for
by spending an hour of their time
causes requiring monetary support.
with the Zari kids coming to the
Wishes for specific causes catering to
classes conducted by the Nirmaan
educational requirements of school
volunteers.
Many students volunteered to par-
Volunteers got together and made
kids, empowerment of the SHG wom-
ticipate and taught the kids various
notebooks out of unused paper,
en, and a school for the blind based in
interesting things like Magic Tricks
collected during the end-semester
Panjim, were written on slips of paper
and Vedic Maths among other
collection drive. They even decorat-
on the tree and anyone who could
things.
ed the notebooks with drawings and
help the wish come true with sponsor-
All in all, it was a heartening experi-
designs of their own. A total of 92
ship from his/her side had to just
ence for the kids who enjoyed every
notebooks were bound which were
pluck the slip and sign. The concept
bit of the activity and cheered us all
distributed among the school kids in
was much appreciated and more than
along.
Zari.
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₹ 20,000 were raised.