Another first for Soham Academy of Human Excellence. Our Soham Champs program opened up a number of opportunities for us to do creative work. After completing Practical Robotics program at 5 schools simultaneously we were pumped up to have a grand exhibition. We brought all the kids from all the 5 schools under one roof at Nallakunta Government High School. To say that we have received an overwhelming response would be an understatement. Kids and teachers from all the schools showed huge enthusiasm to participate in this robotics exhibition.

To start with, the hosting school, led by Smt. Sara Mani, the school HM, made elaborate arrangements for the exhibition. They gave us four rooms – one for the robotics experiments, one for the robotics projects, one for the future tech areas, and finally one for the visiting school children and teachers.

We all felt such robotics knowledge for students of 8th and 9th standards is a need of the hour. We feel fortunate that we are able to bring this knowledge free of cost to government and budget schools. 

Using this occasion we launched a new book on Practical Robotics Using Arduino. 

We also used this occasion to showcase the talents of the students of our Amberpet Government High School, Himayath nagar in our Human Excellence program. The learnt to chant 63 Samskrit shlokas, highest ever for a school so far. We asked a group of students, teachers and visitors to challenge these kids. When pointed to any word from any of the 63 shlokas, they were able to recall the entire shloka.  They chanted all the requested slokas effortlessly and passed in flying colours.

Acknowledgements

Nallakunta Government High School invited Deputy Education Officer Samuel. From Soham Academy side, we invited AI Architects from Microsoft – Somayajulu and Lalith, Hyderabad Software Enterprises Associaiton (HYSEA) CSR Lead Venkat Tankasala, Director of Panineeya Group of Institutions, Vasudha,  and Tech Leads from Colosseum group – Subramanyam and Srikanth. We thank all those who joined us on this big day.

We are able to do this work with schools largely because of strong support from Colosseum Foundation and its head Shailendra Tipparaju. We also receive big support from Surendra Tipparaju who heads the AI division in Microsoft Hyderabad campus.

Our robotics gurus Shiva Krishna Vemula, Sai Krishna Koriginja, Prasad Vankudoth, Krishna Priya, Nandini, Shloka and Akshita played a significant role in training our kids in these 5 schools and in planning and executing this event.

The photos speak volumes about what we are able to put together than mere black letters on a light background!