Personal Project Exhibition at Victorious Kidss Educares

1. Academic Achievement
Success in the current system
Knowledge of subjects
College readiness
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2. Examples…
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3. School kid organising PickleBall
Tournament to make his favourite
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS EXPLORING THEIR PASSION
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4. Student Designing Solar Powered
Electrical Bike
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS USING TECHNOLOGY POWERFULLY
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5. High school kids building
Hi-Tech Drone
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Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS USING TECHNOLOGY POWERFULLY

6. 14-year-old helping farmers reduce
the mortality rate of broiler chickens
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS HELPING FELLOW CITIZENS
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7. High school student organising
dance competition for
underprivileged kids.
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS IMPROVING THEIR COMMUNITIES
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8. School student tutoring and helping
entrepreneurs to succeed.
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
HELPING THE BUDDING ENTREPRENEURS
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9. Caring Teen Translating Stories in
Braille for blind kids
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS HELPING THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED
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10. School going teen helping other’s cope
with the feeling of fear
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
HELPING OTHERS
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11. Teen making short film to create
awareness about Sociopaths
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
HELPING OTHERS
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12. 10 standard kid designing better and comfortable
basketball shoes using latest design techniques
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS USING TECHNOLOGY POWERFULLY
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13. 10 standard kid designing Wind Turbine
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT
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14. 10 standard kid exploring ways to generate
electricity
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT
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15. High school kids designing a
automated traffic barrier
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS HELPING DO THE WORK OF GOVERNMENT
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16. Teens shooting and producing
a documentary on
Historic Raigad Fort
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS PRESERVING AND RESTORING OUR HERITAGE
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17. Teen Learning and Teaching
Traditional Dance Forms
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS PRESERVING AND RESTORING OUR HERITAGE
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18. Middle School Kid designing
furniture by re-engineering waste
newspapers.
Real-world Accomplishment Example:
KIDS BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS
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19. HEALTH CARE
HISTORIC PRESERVATIONINFRASTRUCTURE
HELPING GOVERNMENT AND PEERS

20. REAL-WORLD ACCOMPLISHMENT
IS WHAT WILL ENABLE OUR FUTURE KIDS
TO SUCCEED!
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22. BY DEEPLY UNDERESTIMATING
WHAT OUR KIDS ARE NOW CAPABLE OF,
AND THE VALUE THEY CAN NOW ADD TO THE
WORLD
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23. OUR KIDS ARE ALREADY
STARTING TO DO THIS ON THEIR OWN:
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24. Real-world Accomplishment Example:
DATABASE OF REAL WORLD PROJECTS

25. OUR JOB IS TO MAKE THEM
EVEN MORE POWERFUL!
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26. TO A SUPPORTING CURRICULUM OF
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27. Effective
THINKING
Effective
ACTION
Effective
RELATIONSHIPS
Effective, Real-World
ACCOMPLISHMENT
And especially
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28. BECAUSE…
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29. “SUBJECTS”
are needed in different amounts
by each student
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“GENERALIZED SKILLS”
are needed as much as possible
by EVERY student

30. Vedanta with IB
Become Aware- Consciousness & Truth
• Emphasis on knowing yourself
• Consciousness - Self Worth
• Who am I?
• Respecting the freedom of
Students
• Meditation - Character
• Yoga- Controlling your Mind
• Value based learning
• Concept Based teaching
• We follow the Latest
Research in the field of
Education
• Multiple Intelligence
• Learning Styles
• Developing positive Attitudes
& Life Long Skills

31. International Baccalaureate and VKE
• 50 years IB research coupled with 6000
years of Vedantic Knowledge
• The International Baccalaureate® (IB)
offers high quality programmes of
international education to a worldwide
community of schools. There are more
than 1,116,000 IB students at 4500
schools in 147 countries.
• Leader in the field of international
education

32. Why International Baccalaureate (IB)?
“An International education is not an alternative to a National
education. It is An Ocean of “Discoveries of Knowingness”
An International Baccalaureate (IB) education refocuses a
National education by reflecting it in the mirror of a global
economy that is sustained by global communication.This global
economy includes ‘The Indian Economy.)”
The World our kids are going to live in,
is changing four times faster than our local school.
George Walker, Director General IB
February 2000
© IBO 2004

33. Why IB?
• It encourage students of all ages to think critically
and challenge assumptions
• It is developed independently of government and
national systems, incorporating quality practice from
research and our global community of schools
• It encourages students of all ages to consider both
local and global contexts
• It develops multilingual students.

34. Why IB?
• Quality practice
• Students learn how to learn
• ask challenging questions
• think critically & different
• develop research skills proven to help
them in higher education.

35. How IB and VKE ensures
success for students?
• Concepts of Vedanata and practice of meditation
• Inquiry Based Learning
• Learning How to Learn - ATL
• Community Service (CAS)
• Research Skills
• Exhibition in PYP
• Personal Project in MYP
• Extended Essay in DP
• Thinking Skills - Critical and Creative
• Theory of Knowledge

37. IB focuses on Learning how to Learn?

38. Community Service

39. Research Skills - MYP

40. Research Skills - DP

41. Theory of Knowledge
Critical Thinking

42. We have training centers for management, how to be an engineer or
a doctor, how to play or learn some musical instruments or play some
games. Do we have a center to build Good Human Characters?
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43. The Reading Mother
You may have tangible wealth unfold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be;
I had a Mother who read to me
-by Strickland Gillilan

44. International
Mindedness
• We need our kids to
“become active,
compassionate and
lifelong learners who
understand that other
people, with their
differences, can also be
right.”
• - IB Mission Statement

46. Career Counselling
•VKE Career Counselling Department help students
identify their academic goals and aspirations and
ensure that it’s in line with their larger purpose in
life.
•We handhold students right from subject selection,
to launching themselves in undergraduate colleges as
mature adults, caring and serving not only
themselves and their families but also the entire
world

47. Career Counselling
•The career counsellor helps in discovering the potential of
the students and advising them the right course.
•To help students make the right choice, career counselling
department collaborates with various universities and
organisations and offers career guidance to students.
•We invite many universities on campus and help students
make the right choice, at the same time to give real-life
experience and boost student portfolio we help them get
summer internships in many respected organisations.

48. Where do we want to go?
Towards
Happiness
A Better and
More Peaceful World
To Live In, Not for Myself
Alone But For Everyone Else