Online international workshop concludes

Karnal: The five-day long international workshop on “Zero to Infinity” concluded at Shaheed Udham Singh National College, Matak Majri, Indri. The speaker, Dr Manmeet Rawat, Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology, Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, US, expressed his views on career opportunities in biotechnology and medical research. Satish Kumar, director, Skill Traders LLP from Chandigarh, explained the requirements of soft skills for the present market scenario. Start-up and micro-finance expert Kamaljeet discussed start-up and business management skills. Dr Deepa Sharma, Assistant Professor in Physics, Department of Higher Education, discussed her career-based recent research project.

Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniv

Karnal: College of Horticulture, Nilokheri of Maharana Pratap Horticulture University organised an online programme on environment to mark Swami Vivekananda birth week. The subject of the programme was National Enviornment Youth Parliament 2022 and Nurturing Environment Leader. Dr Rajesh Bhalla, Dean, College of Horticulture, was the chief guest for the session. Poster-making and slogan-writing competitions were also organised.

CUH holds youth parliament

Mahendragarh: Central University of Haryana (CUH) organised National Environment Youth Parliament 2022 in collaboration with Paryavaran Sanrakshan Gatividhi on the theme “Role of individuals/households in adopting environmental-friendly conservation measures”. Vice-Chancellor Prof Tankeshwar Kumar laid emphasis on the need to conserve nature for coming generations.

Session on smart board teaching

Faridabad: Aggarwal College, Ballabgarh, organised a five-day faculty development programme to provide basic and hands-on training on uploading, downloading, locating and saving files on a smart board. Principal Dr Krishan Kant Gupta said other technical issues were also taken up to clear doubts of faculty members. The faculty was also taught how to check answer sheets on phone and laptops. He said the college promoted blended and flipped classroom learning and sessions like these were very helpful for the faculty and students.

Students make creative videos

Panipat: St Mary’s Convent Senior Secondary School motivated students to make creative awareness videos on the spread of Covid and upload them on YouTube. School manager Kartik Abel said cases were rapidly increasing and it was the duty of every citizen to spread awareness on staying safe. Hence, the school initiated this campaign as a competition and students with the highest viewership would be awarded, he added.