The Green Global Deal

The lofty trees stand tall lining the road much travelled,
Mute spectators to man’s pride of progress.

They desperately need a face lift,
their skin is wrinkled with age, leaves dusty and withered, matted like the tresses of Medusa.

Their lungs gasp for breath,
silently longing for a wisp of fresh air, as they moan in agony.

What an irony!
Weren’t they the lungs of the world…….once upon a time?

They know their days are numbered, waiting to be felled any moment,
by those, in the garb of progress,
ruining the balance, imperative to keep nature in harmony.

They know their days are numbered; it’s only a question of who is first!

Who? The tress that stand tall on the roads much travelled
Or the ones on the roads less so?

The only solace for them is the thought,
Wouldn’t they be serving humanity even after their death?

Wouldn’t they be helping a poor man light his hearth,
to give warmth to him on a cold, chilly night?
or to cook his evening meal,
or to light somebody’s funeral pyre?

Stand tall, oh majestic trees!
Your battle is still not lost.

Wait! There might be harbingers of peace,
Defending the environment from ruin,
Heralding a new, greener world,
Urging people to sign a Green Global Deal,
to spread the message, Let’s go green!

Shikha Roy
Educator

Inspiring Young Innovators

Technology major, Intel has launched ‘Inspiring Young Innovators’ school programme at two international schools in the City, the Inventure Academy and Greenwood High, as part of its Intel Teach initiative.



Students from the two schools will be mentored by Intel experts and given workshops during the course of the academic year 2009-10. The programme is aimed at inculcating scientific temper both, among the students and within the system.

Rahul Bedi, director of Corporate Affairs for Intel (South Asia) said, “The idea is to make learning fun. There will be a total of 10 interventions including workshops, field trips to the Intel campus.” Teachers from kindergarten to Class 12 too will participate in the programme.
Meanwhile, the CEO of Inventure Academy Nooraine Fazal said, the academy would make sure that the benefit of the programme reaches the immediate communities of the ‘eco-system’ that the school is situated in.

A parent, Anupama Parekh felt the programme would provide students the required practical exposure.

Deccan Herald

Inspiring Young Innovators School Program

Learning goes hi-tech

Intel partners with schools to take students down the scientific path.



Memorising long chapters has always been a curse for students. Now, many corporates are coming forward to help students learn better and think scientifically.

With the Intel Teach programme and Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS), students of a few city schools will get exposed to scientific thinking and take part in various competitions, held throughout the academic year.

Inventure Academy has launched ‘Inspiring Young Innovators,’ a school programme in association with Intel on Tuesday. Noorain Fazal, founder of the school, said, “India has moved on from being an agrarian society to a software-centered society. It is important to think differently. This programme will encourage teachers, students and parents to take the scientific path.”

Rahul Bedi, Director, Corporate Affairs, South Asia, Intel, said, “Intel Teach and IRIS together have taken up this project. Many schools in the country will be exposed to project-based learning. Various workshops and demonstrations will be held during the academic term along with state, national and international level competitions.”

The programme not only teaches the children but also trains teachers. Joyitha Das, Corporate Affairs In-charge, Intel and IRIS said, “We customise programmes according to the requirements of the school. We are aiming at working with educators and making learning fun for the children.”

The parents have a key role to play too. Tarun Bharghav, a software engineer whose children study at Inventure Academy, said, “I am glad our children are learning to think differently. They are sent on field trips to Intel offices where they get first-hand exposure to the way the corporate world works.”

Anupama Parekh, whose children also study at Inventure Academy, said, “Children are given theoretical exposure in all schools. With Intel Teach and IRIS, they are able to learn the practicalities involved. Demonstrations will help in higher retention levels.”

Seenappa G

Bangalore Mirror

Drumming to the beats of “Inventuring”

“Inventuring”?



Is it making a different commitment to learning?
Is it an effort to create a unique learning environment
Where the children do not lose their sense of wonder and feeling of belongingness?
Is it a quest to create an urge in the students to put all of them,
Mind, body and spirit into everything they do?
Is it creativity unlimited?
Or exploring the unexplored deep sea of knowledge?

Constructing a tree house on the branches of a lofty banyan tree,
Is the first flight of steps they took to reach the land of imagination.
Where the ‘gardeners’ have succeeded in blossoming a thousand flowers
In the ‘garden’ of aspiration and creation.
Their mental faculties stretched to new dizzy heights in the ‘Brain-gym’ sessions,
While carpentry challenged them with logical and spatial lessons.
Their passion and perseverance
Rallying them to work as a team.
Nurturing them are their mentors in the process of living out their dreams.
So, isn’t “inventuring” a new adventure for the learners
To venture into an exploratory and expanded domain of learning?
Mentors do not let this zeal to stop burning,
For in their eyes we also see our own dreams shaping.


We mentors are keen on imparting lifelong skills to our future generation,
But aren’t skills also acquired through exploration and innovation?
Allow the children to observe, wonder and explore,
Don’t clip their wings, don’t stunt their growth,
For only a free body and spirit can dare to soar!

Ms Shikha Roy,
Educator,Inventure Academy