My firstwork in Alice

 

Short Story 01

Colourful feathers in the cap, Can ALICE make a Wonder??????????

Awards and recognitions

1.     National Level Best Project -2007

Topic : Mosquito Menace

Event Organized by - Oracle Education Foundation

·         The online project developed by a team of Five students of Grade V to create an awarness regarding Mosquito Borne diseases and was posted on Think.com an Educational Portal. The team was awarded by Mr. Kiran Karnik, the then NASSCOM President at Oberois, New Delhi

2.    National Level Best Project – 2008

Topic : Need of the Hour – Nuclear Power

3.    Event Organized by - Oracle Education Foundation

·         The project highlighted on the need for an alternative energy source and was greatly appreciated by the Think quest users. A team of five students with the lead Coach and The Principal, Sri S A Nair were honoured by Dr. G Madhavan Nair the then ISRO Chairman. The team was fortunate enough to visit Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shriharikota and observed the Launch Pads which was ready to Launch The Chandrayan.

4.    School Leadership Program - 2007-08

Event Organized by - Oracle Education Foundation

5.    Overall Championship - 2008-09

Event : BGS Cultural Fest

·         An event organised by the BGS group of institutions to promote, tradition, art and culture in students

6.    Overall Championship - 2009-10

Event : BGS Cultural Fest

7.    Large Garden – First Prize

Event organized by – Mysore Horticultural Society, Lalbagh Bangalore

·         For the well maintained School Garden

8.    Funk the Junk Competition – Championship award

Event organized by – Karnataka State Pollution Control Board

·         An event to create best out of the waste socially useful material

9.    Best School of the Green Republic - 2010 – 11

Event organized by – Schneider Electrics

·         The Green Ambassadors  involved in Conserve my Campus Project

10. Overall Championship - 2010-11

Event : BGS Cultural Fest

11.  Overall Championship – Aarohan ‘11

Event organized by – Amrita School of Engineering

·         Students participated in various events organised and won the total prize  amount of RS. 75,500.

12. Best School Award – 2011 - 12

Host School Award – 2011 - 12

Best School of the Green Republic – 2011 - 12

Event organized by – Schneider Electrics

·         Students involved in Conserve My Planet Project sensitizing the need to conserve the natural resources and the energy being the prime concern

13. Runners - 2011-12

Event : BGS Cultural Fest

14. Runners  - 2011 -12

Event : BGS Inter School Sports Meet – SPIRITUS

·         Sports events organized by BGS Group of institutions to promote the spirit of Sportsmanship in youngsters

15. Best Participating School – IYC’11

Event organized by – Oracle Education Foundation

Event: International Year of Chemistry – 2011

Chemistry connect Program, Interaction with the eminent Scientists in the Country

16. DELL Digital Schoolathon – 2011

Event organized by – DELL India

·         DELL connected classroom solution for the school competition.

·         210 schools across 11 cities in India participated.

·         Prize comprise –

a. 24 units of latitude 2120 note books.

b. One mobile computing cart.

c. One Dell interactive projector with mounting arm.

d. One class room management software.

e. Teachers laptop- one latitude E-5420.

f. Master Yashvardhan N C of class V C participated under the guidance  

   of lead coach Ms. Diviya Ganesh

17. British Council International School Award - 2012

Event : International School Award

·         accredited with the British Council International School Award

18. Indo Malaysia – Exposure Volley Ball Tournament 2012 – Winners

·         Under – 14 years of age

·         Organised at Kolalampur, Malaysia

19. International ThinkQuest Competition

·         one of ten schools with the largest number of participants in the 2012 International ThinkQuest Competition

·         More than 2,500 schools participated in this year's competition

·         school is eligible to receive a US $5,000 cash award

ALICE Next?????????????????????????????

Recent Achievements of BGS NPS in Technology

Ms Colleen Cassity ,Executive Director of Oracle Education Foundation writes-

" Dear S.Ayyappan Nair,
Congratulations! BGS National Public School is one of ten schools with the largest number of participants in the 2012 International ThinkQuest Competition. As a resulot, your school is eligible to receive a US $5000 cash award to be used for educational purpose............
Again,congratulations! More than 2,500 schools participated in this year's competition,but yours stood out as exceptioal."
Thank you,
Colleen Cassity
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From Dell International Services India Pvt Ltd.

Dear Principal,
    On behalf of Dell, we would like to extent our warm gratitude to you and your school for havinhg taken part in our initiative Dell Digital Schoolathon 2011. The result is :-
Winners of "DELL Connected Classroom Solution"-BGS National Public School, Bangalore.
Thanking You,
Team Dell Digital Schoolathon

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BRITISH COUNCIL

Dear Mr S.A.Nair,

  It gives us immense pleasure to share with you the results for the ISA(International School Award)....Your school has been successfully acredited with the British Council International School Award.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK !!!...........................

Best wishes,

Paul Sellers
Director South India

Oracle Academy and ALICE

Oracle Education Foundation launched its program in India at KV Malleswaram where I was the Principal. KVS was its partner in India. Those initial days it was known as Think.Com. Teachers like Ms Kamal Peter excelled in this tool and they integrated the same in to their teaching learning process. It was a small beginning and turned out to be a big celebration for both teachers and students. KVs were the first to adopt and encourage this program.

Later it took the avatar of ThinkQuest.org. Project based learning became popular among the teachers. OEF has got the full time support of Ms Kamal Peter There was no looking back. OEF trained the teachers in countries like US and Singapore. Many were trained as Master trainers. Many Excellent projects were born in different parts of the country. Many competitions and programs were planned and executed by Ms Kamal. Dr Kasturirangan, Dr.C.N.R.Rao, Dr.Madhavan Nair, and many scientists from Raman Research Institutes were involved in her programes. International Year of Chemistry celebrations concluded with Dr.APJ Abdulkalamji interacting with the students of different schools of Bangalore.

ThinkQuest international competition was a centre of attraction for both teachers and students.BGS NPS was one among the top 10 schools who produced maximum number of projects. But the news of discontinuation of Thinkquest programe made us very sad. The enthusiasm came down with a question mark." WHY ?"

Ms Kamal was there to answer .."ALICE...ALICE".

It was on 18th of August 2012 , The training started at 8.45 am by Ms Kamal Peter and was  assisted by Ms Madurya.  Along with the teachers there were 5 students also . It was a different tool and everybody was eager to learn. Ms Kamal being a born teacher makes it a point - how to integrate the same in their class rooms. At the end of the day, teachers realised that again it is a good initiative by Oracle Academy. One will enjoy this programme if properly understood and implemented.

Thanks to Oracle Academy.

Alice Workshop 18 Aug 2012

Kamal Mam commencing the training session along with Ms. Madurya

Both teachers and students engrossed in  learning the new technology

Tech  friendly Principal motivating others by himself being involved in the session.

Students being trained to keep their first step in to the world of Animation

Teachers excited about the wonders which they did using  Alice Software.

Teachers having hands on experience of working with Alice 

Teachers busy in discussing and making note of important points told by the trainers

Eagerly waiting to show their work to the trainer..... 

Please don't disturb us .....we are very busy designing our first 3-D animated video

Both teachers and students are learners

Learning never ends...

Teacher representative thanking Kamal Mam for briefing us about Alice. 

BGS NPS and ALICE Training

18th August 2012. Time 8.30. am. Ms Kamal has already reached the Venue. Enthusiastic teachers reaching even on a holiday. 8.45 am all moving to the New Computer lab. Softwere  were loaded in advance by Mr Harihar Gupta and the team. (Ms Kamal had infact came 5 days in advance and given instructions to Mr Hari regarding the installation of the software)

When Kamal started the introductory class she took us to a different magical world of ALICE. All the teachers found Alice to be magical device. The move,roll,vehicle,markers,if and else,variable ...........................wow what an effect they create . The Integration in the classroom will create a lot of enjoy among students. One step ahead in ICT adoption.

I also sat with a child like curiuosity to unravel the mystery of Alice. Truly it is a wonderland.

Good work done by Kamal and Madhurya . Oracle Academy seems promising .................

What is Alice?

Creating Movies and Games as a Motivation for learning Programming thinking

In a global environment that is increasingly dependent on computing, it is critical that our students should be familiar with programming concepts.

Introductory Computer Science courses often use examples and assignments from the business computing and systems building domains. These examples are intended as a foundation for computer science concepts in a domain that makes the problems relevant to students, yet many students do not begin to see the relevance of their computer science classes until they are ready for college.

Carnegie Mellon has created a programming environment, Alice, that allows students to learn basic computer science while creating animated movies and simple video games where students control the behaviors of 3D objects and characters in a virtual world. 

In Alice, students construct programs by dragging and dropping tiles that represent words in a programming language; Alice removes the possibility for syntax errors, a common source of frustration for beginning programmers. Students can watch their programs execute, which enables students to see where they have made mistakes. Unlike many programming environments for novices, Alice allows students to gain experience with all the programming constructs typically taught in programming courses.

Life at BGSNPS

The work culture under the leadership of Sri.S.A.Nair Principal is inspirational.

 I find a lot of it as expressed so beautifully by Buddha

 The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him he is always doing both.”Buddha 

Spirit of Learning Alice

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

Have you feared computer programming? I also did it till I discovered I loved working on Alice ,which is actually programming. Programming without knowing programming.......................Paint without knowing painting. That is what each of our actions should be .

So on Aug 18 .we are there teachers at BGSNPS, Bannerghatta ,Bangalore .Madhurya and myself will  lead you in the Alice land of sheer " Wonder".