Asha Impressions 2024 was celebration at Amazon Chennai Office

Amazon Chennai hosted Asha Impressions 2024 at their World Trade Centre office at Perungudi near Chennai. More than 100 children and 25 teachers came from our Sangamam, Poorna Vidhya and Thulasi projects to present their projects. It was an enjoyable and educational outing for all.

Asha Impressions 2023

Asha Impressions, a competition showcasing the best projects done by students in the schools supported by Asha, was hosted by Amazon Chennai office on May 5th 2023.

Asha Impressions – 2019

   Asha Impressions, a presentation and programming competition for teams from our supported schools was successfully conducted on April 25th. PUPS Velagapuram won the presentation competition from a field of 90 teams and PUMS Ramanjeri won the programming competition from a field of 15 teams.

Asha Impressions – 2018

 On April 28th 2018: Asha Chennai conducted the second edition of Asha Impressions on April 28th 2018. Presentation competition for 4th and 5th std children and Scratch programming competition for 7th and 8th std children were held at Kuppammal Chathiram school in Poondi Block of Thiruvallur Dist. This was sponsored by Hyundai Glovis.

Hindu Covers our RTC Impressions

On 31st March 2024, The Hindu Downtown paper had a detailed article on our RTC Impressions event that was conducted on 7th Feb 2024.

RTC Impressions was conducted on 7th Feb 2024

At Asha Rural Technology Centres, our terms run from Feb to July and Aug to Jan. The Aug to Jan term got completed and the best projects were featured at the RTC Impressions event held at IITM Research Park mini-auditorium on 7th Feb 2024.

Asha Chennai signs an MOU with TN education department

Asha Chennai has entered into an MOU with the education department of Govt of Tamilnadu on 22nd Sept 2023 to work with 50 teachers in 50 government schools to facilitate a one year computer science curriculum to any one class of students from 6th to 9th standards. The project will be funded by Amazon under its Amazon Future Engineer program. …

RTC Impressions – Feb 2023

Students from the 4 RTCs in Thiruvallur demonstrated their projects at the RTC Impressions event conducted on 6th Feb at the IITM Research Park.

September Teacher Trainings at Asha Chennai

Training sessions were organised in Comptuer science and Maths for all teachers. Sessions for computer teachers were organised during the exam week on Sept 18th and 19th at Thiruvallur and for all teachers from Sept 24th to 26th in Olcott Memorial School.

Computer Science Assessments across our Programs

Asha has been revamping the assessment framework for our various CS programs in the 2023-24 academic year. This has been impacting the outcomes of our programs. Here is a detailed report on the same.

Status of our RTCs – Aug 2023

 The six continuing RTCs completed another term in July/Aug and a new RTC was also opened in Thomur, Thiruvallur District. Here is a status report of all the RTCs.

Training for Computer Teachers

All the Asha Chennai computer teachers from Tamilnadu and UP came to Thiruvallur for 3 days from Dec 20th to Dec 22nd 2022 for training. The function was a success,

Engaging our Teachers during the Covid times

June 2020: Teachers haven’t been able to do their usual work at schools ever since the schools closed in mid-March. Asha Chennai has been using their time productively to enhance our content, provide them training, etc.

Term III teacher training – 2018

At the end of term II, during the December holidays Asha Chennai conducted training sessions for its teachers in Computer Science, Maths and English.

Events for the year ( 2024-25)

Month Event Photos of last year June 2024 School begins As the schools begin, Asha also hires teachers, assigns them to the schools and start working newly with the new schools if any. This year we have new schools in Cauvery and Mirzapur projects. Toilet Construction at Palavakkam and Kannigaiper. This will continue through to August. Asha takes up construction …

RTC Status Report – June 2024

A lot was achieved in the Asha Kanini project during 2023-24. In addition to continuing to work on our Asha Kanini product, several contributions were made to improve our IT related processes. See the detailed report.

RTC Completes 2 years

 Asha is running 6 RTCs (4 in Thiruvallur and 2 in Thoothukudi districts). Starting from two RTCs in Jan 2022, RTCs have successfully completed 4 terms. See a status report on the RTCs now.

Report on the RTCs – Feb 2023

RTCs completed one more term in Feb 2023. Four older RTCs in Thiruvallur and the two new ones in Thoothukudi are all functioning well.