ICT Seagulls Project

TEAM - WINGS

CBSE AFFILIATED (10+2), EDEXCEL IGCSE & GCE ISO 9001-2000 CERTIFIED, MEMBER QCFI & ISFI

GWALOIR (INDIA)

TEAM MEMBERS:Miss. Aditi Mittal LEADER

Miss. Mansi Jain LEADER

Miss. Roma Kukreja MEMBER

Miss. Tina Khatri MEMBER

Mast. Sahil Sahni MEMBER

Mast. Navid Olyai MEMBER

Miss. Anuja Bhadoria MEMBER

Mast. Kartikeya Dwivedi MEMBER

Miss. Mansi Pradhan MEMBER

Mast. Kunal Chaturvedi MEMBER

Team Name WINGS

Motto Find something special in someone each day!

Instated on 01 January 2009

Meeting Every week one school period

Facilitators Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma (Principal), Mr. Yogesh Londhe

Mentor Mrs. Tina Olyai, Director

CHOOSING A PROBLEM, DEMOCRATIC WAY!

We brainstormed to see what project we could take up. Everyone came up with some suggestions, we consolidated the list as follows:

1. Service project at local orphanage to improve their living condition.2. Creating awareness about Child labor.3. Creating awareness about female feticide and infanticide.4. Service Project with Atma-Jyoti – Home for Blind Girls.5. Donate cloths and books to Amar Jyoti - school for differently gifted students.6. Creating awareness about Global warming.7. Campaign to save water.8. Adapting a school in poor neighborhood to improve their classrooms.9. Service project with “Project Roshni – for people with cerebral palsy”10. Campaign for safe roads.

We wanted to involve differently gifted students of our own age in this project, so we shortlisted:1. Atma Jyoti – Home for Blind Girls2. Amar Jyoti – School & Rehabilitation Center3. Project Roshni – Center for People with Cerebral Palsy.

We then visited all these three places to find out which place will be our final choice. This is when we experienced that each individual has special gifts, we need to find that something special in every one.

CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…

We attended the Annual function of Amar Jyoti – School for differently gifted, there we saw polio struck children dancing with crutches, children in wheel chair performing dare devil stunts, children with hearing impediment performing mime acts, etc. In all their performances we saw the indomitable human spirit, to overcome all limits and zeal to be recognized in the mainstream life for their talents.

We visited “Project Roshni – center for people with cerebral palsy”, where people with cerebral palsy learn to lead independent life through pre-vocational training. We then invited them to arrange an exhibition & sale of the items they make as part of pre-vocational training. We saw the beauty and creativity in the items they make and they even taught us how to make few of those items.

CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…

We visited “Atma Jyoti – Home for Blind Girls” and made friendship with them. The visually challenged girls sang songs, played piano and danced for us. They even played chess with us and defeated us. We saw the talents and zeal to develop those talents in them, we became good friends and great fans of these girls.

CHOOSING A PROBLEM CONTINUED…

FINALIZING THE PROBLEM

After visiting all three places, it was difficult to choose one, but the girls at Atma Jyoti made very good impression on us with their zeal to learn new things and eagerness to improve their skills, so we chose Atma Jyoti unanimously.We involved our new friends at Atma Jyoti in consultation to see what is the best thing we can do together to help them realize their own potential. Most of them think that studying is very important to realize their own talent and live a respectful life. Through education we can sharpen our inherent capacities and realize our true potential. We also realized that they face few problems in studies, which we don’t face because we can see. We want our improve the quality of their studies, so we took up that as our main problem in the project.

“PROBLEMS FACED BY VISUALLY CHALLENGED IN STUDYING!”

Weeks Task

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...

Forming Team

Planning & Brainstorming

Survey

Problem analysis

Proposing solution

Action

Evaluate

Final Solution & implementation

May- June Summer vacation ...

LEGENDPlanned dates to finish a task

GANTT CHARTWEEKS

TASKS

DEMING WHEEL / PDCA CYCLE

• Act • Plan

• Do• Check

: Final implementation

: Follow up

: Build friendship: Find out their

problems: Analyze problem

: Study together: Sing together: Donate Braille

printer: Exhibit talent

: Evaluate the outcome.: Suggest

improvement: Celebrate

success

BRAINSTORMING

1. Read lessons for them.2. Make audio lessons on cassettes for them.3. Celebrate their birthdays.4. Celebrate our own birthdays with them.5. Study with them.6. Write exams for them.7. Learn Braille and write notes for them.8. Donate a Braille embosser to their school.9. Donate Braille books to their school.10. Start a choir group with them.11. Teach them songs.12. Teach them dances.13. Prepare a skit with them.14. Go for picnic with them.15. Visit them and find out what they need.16. Organize exhibition and sale of handicraft items they make.

We conducted brainstorming session to find ideas on what can we do help our visually challenged friends, following is partial list of our ideas:

DATA COLLECTION

We visited our visually challenged friends again to conduct a survey about challenges they face. We asked them few questions orally and recorded their replies. We then consolidated all their replies in a matrix, so that we could analyze the data using Pareto Analysis.

MATRIX

Sr. PROBLEM VOTES CUMULATIVE VOTES CUMULATIVE %

B: Limited study materials 30 30 38%

D: Giving Exams 25 55 69%

A: Depend on others for study 12 67 84%

E: Don’t get enough time for study 8 75 94%

C: No Braille books 5 80 100%

8

22

10

20

12

18

25

5

30

YES NO

PIE CHARTS OF THE RESPONSES

Shortage of study material Depending on other for writing exam

Depend on others for study

Don’t get enough timeFor study

No books in Braille

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

B

D

AE

C

38%

69%

84%

94%

100%

Problems faced by visually challenged students:

A: Depend on others for study.

B: Limited study materials.

C: Can’t study as much I wish.

D: Giving exams.

E: No books in Braille.

PARETO ANALYSIS

• Pareto Analysis showed us that if we work on there 2 vital issues of ‘limited study materials’ and ‘giving exams’, we could solve most of their troubles in studies.

• We then used Dr. Ishikawa’s Why-Why technique to go to the root causes.

PARETO SAYS…

FISHBONE DIAGRAM

Challenges of

The visually

challenged in

study

Individual

Society

Machine

Method

Difficulty in study

Material Unavailable In Braille

Depend only onoral instruction

Don’t get Braille books

No Braille printer

Non acceptance

Social stigma

Limited jobsFor visually challenged

No special method of instruction

No specialschools

Belief that visually

challenged are disabled

Not available readily in market

Social stigma

Belief that visually

challenged are disabled

Challenges inShowcasing talent

Giving Exams

No specialschools

ROOT CAUSES

1. Unavailability of Braille printer/embosser2. Social non-acceptance due to stigma that

visually challenged are dis-abled.3. Only method of instruction at present is oral

instruction.4. Unavailability of Braille books/study material5. No special schools for visually challenged

STRATEGIES PROPOSEDA:Problem: Unavailability of

Braille printer.Strategy: To collect funds to

donate a Braille Printer.A good quality Braille Printer, with computer interface costs approximately Rs. 200,000.00 (Two lakh Rupees), that is a huge cost, especially for a group of high school students. So we discussed the idea of collecting donations from everyone with our school directors and they agreed immediately to the idea. Our directors suggested, that we divide the cost in smaller units of Rs 1000.00 (One thousand rupees) and appeal everyone to donate, we need to collect only 200 units to buy the printer.

All the donations towards purchase of the Braille Printer are welcome.To send your donations please contact :Mrs. Tina Olyai at Little Angels Junior School: +91 751 2324144 orMr. Yogesh at Little Angels High School: +91 751 2633481

STRATEGIES PROPOSEDB:Problem: Social non-acceptance due to stigma that visually challenged are dis-abled.Strategy 1: Organize exhibitions of the handicraft things these girls have made.We spoke to our school Principal Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma about this idea and she suggested to organize the exhibition & sale of these handicraft items on a Parent-Teacher Meeting day, when lot of parents come to the school, this way many people can visit the exhibition and buy few things from there.

Strategy 2: All girls mixed choir group from both schools.We spoke to our visually challenged friends about this idea and they are very excited about this idea. They sing very well. We will invite to sing with us once in our school Assembly and then start the choir group.

STRATEGIES PROPOSEDC:Problem: Only method of learning is oral instructionStrategy 1: To prepare audio lessons for them.We spoke to their warden Ms Priti Yadav about this idea, she was very happy with the idea. She said that the girls have some cassette players and they use it regularly, if we make audio lessons on cassettes it will be beneficial for them.

Strategy 2: To prepare Braille study notes for them.When we donate the Braille printer, this will happen automatically.

STRATEGIES PROPOSEDD:Problem: No special schools for visually challenged.Strategy: Write to Government authorities to start a special school for visually challenged students.We discussed this with our parents and teachers and most of them told us that there are such schools in big cities and setting up one takes lots of resources. Some parents suggested that we create awareness about EYE Donation, which will benefit the visually challenged people in general.

Do you want to see this beautiful world even after death?

Donate eyes!

ANALYZING OUTCOME - 1Though we plan using the QC tools, sometimes we need to change plans for good reasons, like writing exams for these visually challenged girls came up suddenly and we had put everything aside to do that first. This came up suddenly, because the Exam dates for them were changed to start and finish earlier and thus their regular exam writers could not help them, so we organized the writers for them.All our visually challenged friends got very good grades and we celebrated their success together.

The Exhibition and Sale of handicraft items made by the visually challenged girls created lot of awareness among parents about talents of these girls. Now many people go to Atma Jyoti to visit and sometimes buy few things made by them.

ANALYZING OUTCOME - 2

• We could not prepare audio lessons for them before exam, due to lack of time and now that they are next class, their school is changing their syllabi and we can get the books only in August 2009. We’ll prepare the audio lessons then.

• We’ve started collecting funds for Braille Printer, we hope to buy and donate the printer by mid-July.

ANALYZING OUTCOME - 3

• We have good feeling about the choir group, we have already started singing together, soon we’ll be performing on big stage together.

• Our awareness campaign for eye donation is appreciated by our teachers and parents.

ANALYZING OUTCOME - 4

DOING MORE – FOLLOW UP

• Even after we finish this project, we will still keep visiting out new friends and make sure they have no troubles in studies.

• We hope by next year they’ll be able to learn typing and give their examinations using type-writers, we’ll work on that.

• We’ll create more awareness about donating eyes.

• In past our teachers and students have helped the girls from Atma Jyoti to start a Quality Circle. We will also help our friends start their own Quality Circles to solve their problems on their own.

Weeks Task

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...

Forming Team

Planning & Brainstorming

Survey

Problem analysis

Proposing solution

Action

Evaluate

Final Solution & implementation

May- June Summer vacation ...

LEGENDPlanned dates to finish a task

Actual dates as the task was completed

NOTES:1. Parts of final solution like making audio lessons could not be started as students of “Atma Jyoti” will get their books only in August.2. Summer vacation started in last week of April and the team could not meet to finish the further tasks.3. The remaining tasks will be finished when team meets again in July.

GANTT CHART - FINALWEEKS

TASKS

PROJECT OUTCOME

1. SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF WRITING EXAMINATIONS. ALL OUR VISUALLY CHALLENGED FRIENDS PASSED WITH GOOD GRADES.

2. WE’VE STARTED COLLECTING FUNDS FOR DONATING A COMPUTER BRAILLE EMBOSSER, VERY SOON OUR FRIENDS WILL BE ABLE TO GET STUDY NOTES IN BRAILLE.

3. WE WILL RECORDING AUDIO LESSONS FOR OUR FRIENDS, SO THEY CAN STUDY ANYTIME THEY WISH.

4. WE’VE STARTED ALL GIRLS CHOIR GROUP, INCLUDING THE VISUALLY CHALLENGED GIRLS.

5. NOW MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE HIDDEN TALENTS OF THE VISUALLY CHALLENGED GIRLS FROM “ATMA JYOTI”

6. WE HELPED THEM START A QUALITY CIRCLE IN PAST, WE WILL HELP THEM START MORE SUCH QC TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS USING QC TOOLS.

OUR PERSONAL GAINS

WE GOT NEW FRIENDS

JOY OF SERVICE

FOUND OUT THAT EVERYONE

IS SPECIAL

LEARNED NEW THINGS

REALIZED MY OWN

POTENTIAL

THESE YOUTH ARE NOW EMPOWERED TO UNVEIL POTENTIALS IN OTHERS!

END NOTES

•We have been blogging our project progress as and when it happened. There you’ll read more stories as they happened. Please visit our blog at http://discoveringability.blogspot.com•Our Junior Youth Empowerment Program sessions were big source of inspiration for us. These sessions gave us lot of spiritual strength to work on our ICT Seagulls project.

THANK YOU!!!• We thank Dr. Hayal Koksal and KALBEMER for starting ICT

Seagulls Project.• We thank our school directors Mr. & Mrs. Olyai for their

encouragement and support.• We thank our school management especially our Principal

Dr. Mrs. Alka Sharma for guidance at all steps in this project.• We thank our facilitator Mr. Yogesh Londhe• We thank our parents & teachers for guidance.• We thank management of Atma Jyoti, especially Ms Priti

Yadav for encouragement and support.• Of course our new friends for their wonderful friendship

THANK YOU!