My COP Projects

Day 1         After heavy rains postponing the event, the IIMUN Conference finally began one day later at Gateway - The Complete School. Several performances including dances, singing and speeches occurred before conference finally commenced. After seeing a few familiar faces, my  I was assigned to the International Council Women (ICW) as the delegate of Qatar. The two chairpersons of the Executive Board were jovial and easy going people, but once the floor was in formal debate, they meant business.         The agenda to be discussed was steps to ensure an empowered adolescent girl by 2030. As the board entered parliamentary discussion, I found myself horrendously outmatched and under-prepared. Some of my fellow delegates had been preparing for months together, whereas I had studied for a mere two weeks.         Once I had finally understood everything, I began to slowly open my mouth and speak. After listening and li...

        By looking at the title you may think I just ran some 30 kilometer, cross-city marathon under the scorching sun. Unfortunately the truth itself was that I merely ran a 3-kilometer, inter-ground marathon at night. However for a person as unfit as me, this was similar to a climb up the Mount Everest. Hence undertaking such a task truly was a big challenge for me.         The run took place at the YMCA ground in Nandanam and began at around half past seven. I was unable to take any pictures during the run itself, because if I did, my phone would have fallen to the ground and smashed into dust by the stampede surrounding me. Yes it was that crowded. It was slightly reassuring to see children and middle aged adults run alongside me. However after a while I grew slightly spiteful seeing those same children and middle aged adults run ahead of me with more energy than I even had to begin with.         By the time I completed...

        For the past week, the higher grades were bustling away with their preparations for the Aadi Street Festival that was initiated by Sneha of IBDP2. Several games and activities would be set up, trinkets and ornaments would be sold, with snacks and other refreshments being served. Everyone in the 11th and 12th grades were involved in preparation, and were to man the stalls.         My class and I were in charge of preparing paper cones that will be used to serve chick peas. At first it was rather difficult to fold the paper into cones, but once we got the hang of it, it was smooth sailing. By the end of the week we had made exactly one hundred cones! However I feel that initially we were slacking off as the rate of production was quite low. Due to this we         On the actual day, Vinay and I were in charge of manning the Organic Remedies stall. Our sole task was to inform visitors about remedies that can be made usin...

        Since the beginning of the month, my classmates and I frequented a special needs school nearby to teach the children their basics on numeracy and literacy. Many will say that after interacting with these kids that they became a changed person; they're not wrong, but a more precise observation is that you start to incorporate the things you learn from those kids in your day to day life.                 From the onset itself, it was obvious that traditional board and chalk teaching was not going to suffice. It was then, one of my friends suggested we play with a football, which all kids are fond of, whilst incorporating Mathematics into the game itself. However when we reached their for the first time, we found out that some of the kids were actually grown adults, or at least a few years older than us. This came as a shock to me as I could not understand why they were attending this school, when they could get a jo...