Sunday, March 10, 2013

SUMMER COMPUTER TRAINING PROGRAM FOR RURAL STUDENTS


"Empowering Rural India Through Technology" అనే విజన్లో భాగంగా దత్తత తీసుకున్న 11 ప్రభుత్వ పాఠశాలలకి COMPUTERS అందించటమే కాకుండా.. ఆయా పాఠశాలల ఉపాధ్యాయులకి (15 members) మరియు స్థానిక "ప్రభుత్వ ఇంటర్మీడియట్ కాలేజి" విద్యార్ధులకి (75 members) 45 రోజుల ఉచిత "Computer Training Course" కాయక్రమానికి మన  "స్నేహహస్తాలు" ఫౌండేషన్ శ్రీకారం చుట్టింది. 


Why Intermediate (11th and 12th Class) Students?
          This training is to make them confident, competent and a part of IT revolution.

Why school teachers?
          We believe if one teacher gets knowledge, then he can propagate that to 10 other students. When a teacher is knowledgeable, it fetches an advantage to the student.

Place of training:  ZP High School,Atchampet, Guntur District.

Duration: 15 days
        3 hours per class (1 hour theory and 2 hours lab) per day. (Total 45 hours for one batch)

Sessions: Two sessions per day.
Timings: 10 am to 1 pm (1st batch) and 3 pm to 6 pm (2nd batch).
Students per class: 15 students per batch.
Number of batches: 6 (45 days, 90 students).
Proposed dates: Starts from March 15th, 2013.
(Actual Schedule will be released after talking to the tutor and students)

Selection process: Filing of application form, Choosing the batch based on the schedule, Accepting Terms & Conditions, Verifying the application forms, Selecting the Candidates.


Resources Arranged for Summer Training Camp:

1) 15 Desktop Computers Arranged
        

2) One Qualified Trainer and One Lab Assistant appointed for these 2 months:

3) Laptop arranged for Trainer with Internet facility

4) Arranged Generator on rent base for Power Supply:

5) Printer for printing practice material arranged
 

6) A projector arranged fora teaching aid .

7) 3 UPS with each capacity 1500W arranged on rent base. No Power issues for 2 sessions (8 Hours)

8) Total computer training Room setup arranged with electricity, Fans, Lights.

9) 15 Fiber Chairs arranged for Training Room

10) Drinking Water facility arranged.

11) Night watchman arranged for training room.


12) Review test paper arranged for review test at the end of each training batch.


13)  Course completion certificates arranged

14) 19 pen drives arranged to provide as prizes ( 3 per batch).

We are looking forward for your support to implement the above program successfully for the rural intermediate students & teachers.

Overview of Training Syllabus :

1.    Introduction of Basics of computers (About computer,  Software, Hardware, OS, Typing practice)

2.    Windows operating System


3.    MS Office (MS Word, MSExcel, Powerpoint)

Word: Open,Save,Formating,Table Creations,Drawing, Printing document.
Excel: Open,Save,Work with Spreadsheets, Formatting Spreadsheets, Sorting,filtering,autosum.
Powerpoint: Open,Save,Creating,Formatting, Adding Graphics,Adding Effects,Printing

4.     Internet Basics & Other Utility softwares

Browsers, Email, online ticket booking, online shopping, online mobile   recharge, online banking, file downloads, Govt. Websites, Search engines ,CD/DVD burning, Winzip
























Computer Training Program Status Update:

  •   We started our 'Summer Computer Training Program Classes' on March 25th. 
  •    Because of 10th class exams, initially we started with afternoon sessions (only one batch per day).
  •    18 Teachers from our Adopted Schools attended in 1st batch.
  •     From April 8th on wards , we started morning batch also ( 20 Intermediate students joined in 2nd batch). 
                           Morning Session start @ 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
                           Afternoon Session start @ 2 PM to 5PM 
  •    1st batch successfully completed 15 days training sessions  and attended review test on last Monday (15th April). All member did well in review test and got course completion certificates. We gave pen drives for 3 members (whoever best performed in review test).
  •      Now both morning and afternoon training sessions going. For each batch 20 members attending for classes.
For more photos captured on various stages of Computer training program, please visit @ For Computer Training Program Photos