March 18, 2017; Saturday
With good morning breakfast at RTDC dining hall, we moved to Pallavan School. At Mathematics laboratory of the school, we were greeted by Mr. Gaurav Saklani. Sir started the session about leadership with an ice breaking game i.e analog to cement and sand mixing machine after letting participants to know names of few of the participants. With the activity of mingling, groups of five members were formed by selecting persons next to each other. Every group were given task to discuss about leadership qualities. A representative from each group shared group members opinion on qualities of leadership.
 |
Lets share our ideas about qualities that a great lead should acquire.
|
The session was continued with an activity to realise the qualities that a leader should equip with. Sir divided the participating students into three groups and distributed short section of horizontal cut pipe. Then, instructions and rules were declared by sir. It was followed by playing the game were every group members have to collaboratively direct a marble into a glass by making a channel with the cut pipes given to all the students. This was followed by discussion in the maths lab. Student shared their experience and importance of leadership in the game. In that way the qualities that a leader should excel was discussed interestingly. Important points were chalked out on white board while elaborating. This session was followed by 15 minutes lemon juice break, during which Mr. Arun Kapur was welcomed by the participants. Every participants were privileged to have face to face greeting session with sir.
 |
| "Lets listen to Gaurav sir" Participants |
At 11:40 am, the session was again headed by Mr. Gaurav Saklani. He started the session by allowing every participants to stand up and listen to a story about a woman with fake 50 rupees buying a 20 rupees Slipper and asking a logical question about loss of money to the shopkeeper. There were five answers viz, 30, 50, 70, 80 and 100 rupees. Participants with same answer sat together to discuss about their appropriateness of answer. All the participants tried to come to a common answer. Anyhow, with this activity, sir draw out some important qualities of a great leader to excel in leading their follower.
The session was continued again by forming groups of seven members to discuss about any moment in life that was considered excellent leadership skill or a challenging moment. All the participants have discussed with determination and dedication.
At 2:00 pm after lunch, Mr. Arun Kapur took the session. Sir stressed about importance of self realisation and purpose of attending Asia Pacific Schools Initiative Community (ASPI). He also emphasised on importance of education and highlighted the meaning of education. With beautiful example of butterfly coming out of cocoon with resilence and rigour, sir described about the objectives of ASPI.
