LEAD Times

Complaints… start with ‘They’

Solutions… start with ‘I’

Bi-monthly news letter of LEAD

Issue 09

LEAD 2010!- A new era of

Leadership and Innovation
Inside this issue:

LEAD 2010 1 LEAD 2010, starting from Aug 2010 with the objectives,
To bring innovation and creativity as a culture among college students
LEAD 2
To strengthen the student network across the discipline
Valedictory To build the mind set of initiation
Best 3 To Supplement education with experiential learning
LEADers To give the taste of Leadership to the students
LEAD Event 4
LEAD 2010 is special!- It brings various trainings to students and college
Twin-city Idol 5 faculties, opportunities to engage in developmental activities, interaction with
the local experts, Entrepreneurial and Leadership tours and many more!
Friends of 6
LEAD and
Testimonials Already 11 colleges across 6 districts have signed the MoU with LEAD to be a
partner in promoting Innovation and Leadership among their college students.
Over 20 colleges are hoping to be a partner very soon.

Coming soon! Want to be a part of LEAD? Register today!

LEAD Students can directly register as LEADer or Master LEADer by paying
Website 100 Rs and 200 Rs. respectively at LEAD office.

Unique opportunity to work with a great NGO!

Agastya International Foundation– An organization which runs one of the largest
science education programs in the world. It focuses on teaching science practically to
the rural students to sparkle creativity in them rather than providing them just
bookish knowledge.
It is a great opportunity for LEADers to explore their
skills by volunteering with Agastya in their several
projects.
Interested students can register with LEAD at
lead@dfmail.org or contact
LEAD Office: 0836-2378500/2378525
Know more about Agastya at: http://www.agastya.org/
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LEAD Valedictory
Sirsi

Upcoming
events
LEAD 2010
Inauguration +
innovative
project
LEAD Sirsi celebrated the closing ceremony of LEAD 2010 on 3rd May, at
exhibition
MES College of Commerce, Sirsi. Mr. Manoj Kumar, Deputy Forest
LEAD faculty
Officer, Sirsi was the Chief Guest for the event. Other guests of honor
training
were, Dr. Mala Giridhar, Psychiatrist, Mr. S. G Hegde, renown Chartered
1st Friends Of
Accountant, Mr. Pandurang Hegde, Founder of the NGO ‘Prakriti’,
LEAD meeting
Prof. R. G Hegde, Principal, MES Commerce College, Sirsi, Mrs. Bharati
LEADers and
Hegde, Principal, RNS Polytechnic College, Sirsi and Mr. Naveen Jha,
Master LEADers
Director, DCSE who made the event successful by their gracious presence.
orientations
On the eve of Valedictory ceremony, 3 LEADers and 2 Campus Ambassa-
dors were awarded for their extra ordinary performance in the LEAD
Program. Over 150 LEAD students attended the valedictory and got a
chance to meet the renowned personalities of Sirsi. The guests motivated
the LEADers by their powerful and inspiring words.

Hospet

Coming soon!
LEAD 2010
Inauguration on On May 9 ,2010 Lead Hospet had it's annual valedictory ceremony
Aug 15th! and awarded the three best LEADers.
Innovative projects Guests of Honor: Mr. Naveen Jha Director DCSE,
exhibition and Best Mr. K B Srinivas, Syndicate Member, Hampi-Kannada University,
project awards! Mr. N Pany, Vice President (HR Head) MSPL Ltd (BALDOTA),
Dr. P Khagesan, Principal, PDIT Engg. college, Mr. Raghavendra,
Principal, Theosophical college and Mr. N S Revanasiddappa
Secretary, Bharat Vikas Parishad, Hospet. Mr. Manoj V from
PDIT college Hospet, Ms. Archana from Thesosophical college,
Hospet and Ms. Jeena Alphonsa from Kuttoor Swami B.Ed col-
lege Bellary were awarded "Best Leaders".
 Know the Best LEADers
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Ullas Hegde: 3rd year B.Com, MES College, Sirsi

Ullas is a very active student who worked in 2 projects as
LEADer and in more than 3 projects as team member. He con-
ducted a blood grouping camp in his college to make students
aware of their blood groups and also did a project at the central
library, Sirsi where he arranged more than 15000 books in order
by giving them numbers, which is now very useful for the
visitors.
Suma Badagi: 3rd year B.A, Govt. First Grade college,
Mundgod
Suma gave free tuitions to Govt. school students of 9th and 10st
std who did not have proper facilities to learn at school. She
trained them on all the subjects and prepared them well for the
upcoming exam. Students who were expecting just passing marks
before are now expecting more than 70% in their exam.
Shivkumar Shettar: 4th year BSc Forestry,
College of Forestry, Sirsi
Shivkumar is very passionate towards wild life conservation. He
went to different schools in and around Sirsi and made the stu-
dents aware of poisonous and non poisonous snakes by showing
them pictures. The purpose of the project was to save snakes
which are being killed by people who think that they are harmful.
He also donated charts with all the information about snakes to
schools expecting at least 40% reduction in the death of snakes in
those areas.

Jeena alphonsa: Kutturswami B. Ed College, Hospet

Jeena took the initiative to send some slum children back to
school. She met the parents of 12 children who had made their
kids leave school and work for daily wages. She continuously
visited them for more than 15 days and finally convinced them
to send their kids to school. Jeena also gave tuitions and did
counseling for children. All the 12 children have enrolled in
school now.
Manoj Tandur: 6th Sem, PDIT College, Hospet
Manoj wanted to help newly admitted students and visitors by
guiding them about the college campus. He designed a complete
campus map and implemented it in the main gate of the
college . He also convinced the college management to fund Rs.
4000 for the same purpose.
Poornima E: B.Com 2nd year,
Theosophical College, Hospet
Poornima conducted blood grouping camp in collaboration with
Bharat Vikas Parishad into her college. 380 people participated
the camp and got to know their blood group. The participators
included faculties, students and local people. Poornima
managed to do this project in zero budget by arranging all the
recourses from her college and local people.
 Inter School Competitions by LEADers!
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LEADers
organized an event called Chote Ustad– An inter school fancy dress, painting and power point
presentation competition to bring out the young hidden talents. More than 20 schools participated
in the event on 12th June at DCSE, Hubli. Fancy dress competition was for 1st to 4th std students
where more than 15 students appeared in different historical personalities’ costume.
Painting competition was held for 5th to 8th std students where more than 250 students partici-
pated.
Over 12 teams participated in the power point presentation competition.
Global warming was the topic for painting and power point presentation to make the students
aware of global warming and the steps to be taken to reduce it.
Mr. Ashwin. R.K, Professor, BVB CET, Mrs. Manju, and Mrs. Reena, Mr. Ajay Shukla, Program
Manager, LEAD, DCSE and Ms. Jayashree, Professor, Fatima College, Hubli were the judges for
Fancy dress, Painting and PPT respectively. The event was organized by Pawan Kumar (Leader),

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Kids in different costumes

LEADer’s remark
It was really a very tough task to conduct the program
and it was a success due to the hard efforts of the team.
Being a Leader, I learnt many things such as teamwork,
marketing, organizing, managing things within given
resources, time management and most importantly managing
such a big crowd! I thank LEAD for all the support and
look forward to being involved in such activities in the future.

Pawan Kumar, LEADer, 2nd sem, BVB CET, Hubli.

 Twin City Idol 2010!- Singing competition judged by
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Mr. Raghu Dixit, Singer, Composer and Music Director
LEAD organized the singing competition Twin City idol to bring out the hidden singing talents of
Hubli– Dharwad. The competition was held under senior and junior categories and more than 120
people registered for auditions. Out of 120, 21 seniors between the age group of 18– 28 and 14
juniors between the age group 12– 17 were selected for semifinals. Mr, Ashok Nadgir,
Mrs. Gayatri Deshpande and Mrs. Veena Hangal judged auditions and semifinal and selected 5
singers from both the categories to participate in the finals. Mr. Raghu Dixit, a renown singer,
composer and musician from Bangalore was invited to select the winners on 26th June. The
program was held in the auditorium of Deshpande Foundation. Ms. Sapna Upadhyay and
Ms. Mahima bagged Twin City Idol 2010 award under junior and senior category respectively.
Ms. Varsha Hardikar and Ms. Chaitra Pai bagged the runner up positions under junior and senior
category respectively. Mr. Raghu Dixit gave valuable feedbacks to all the singers and at the end of
the program, he captured his audience through his breath taking singing performance.

Photo Gallery Ms. Sapna Upadhyaya receiving

award

Raghu Dixit performing at the

end of the event
Finalists with Mr. Naveen Jha
and Mr. Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit doing

judgement

LEAD Team with Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit awarding

Mahima

Mr. Naveen Jha falicitating Mr. Raghu

Dixit
 Friends of LEAD Testament
Friends of LEAD– A group of individuals who “The lead program
are ready to contribute their time, energy and conceived by Deshpande
money to support LEAD and help the LEADers Foundation is a novel
concept in harnessing the
implement their projects in an effective way. creativity of the youth
LEAD started the concept of ‘Friends of LEAD’ and channelising their
in June and within 2 weeks, over 15 people have energy in a positive
signed the agreement to be a part of it. The direction for the
betterment of the society,
group includes renowned doctors, lawyers, en- in the process sharpening
trepreneurs and employees of esteemed organi- their skills and
zations in Hubli. These individuals dream of de- confidence to face the challenges of the future.”
veloping Hubli by supporting young leaders and
-Mr. Dhiren Thakkar, Director,
their innovative ideas.
Elveety Industries, Hubli

Reconstruction of houses
in flooded areas
As we all know, North Karnataka suffered heavy floods in 2009
and many people were rendered homeless. During that causality,
LEADers took initiation to raise money to help the flood victims. Within
2 weeks, LEADers raised more than Rs. 70000 and donated the money for
the reconstruction of houses. By June 20th, 2010, 3 houses were
reconstructed in Ron taluk of Gadag dist by using the money raised by
LEAD. The administration and professional cost incurred during
construction were contributed by Deshpande Foundation.
Apart from money, LEADers also collected clothes,
vessels, eatables and food grains and donated
to the flood victims.

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link
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