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Spark is a fledgling social work/social service group at Chennai Mathematical Institute. The conception and name are due to Bodhayan Roy, a first-year student at CMI. Currently, around 20 CMI students are actively involved with Spark activities.
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Volunteers and contributors
- A full list of volunteers is available at Volunteer list.
- A list of financial contributors is available at Financial contributor list
Activities
Current acitivities: CCCL Hexaware
CMI students are currently working on a project to educate children of construction workers at the CCCL Hexaware site. There are currently about 20 children there who seem to be interested, and the current plan is to teach them on Sundays. The 20 includes about 8-10 Telugu children, 8-10 Oriya cum Bengali children and 2 from Jharkhand. An idea of the recent activities can be obtained by looking at the January 2007 report.
An alternative path for Spark, viz teaching at local schools, has been shelved for now. Teaching in city schools has also been scrapped.
The currently scheduled activity is the January 30 meeting. Agenda for this is available at: Agenda for January 30 meeting.
Past activities
The main activity of Spark members in August-December 2006 was educating the children of construction workers involved in building the CMI hostel. Check out Educating the kids: the story for more details.
Means of communication/coordination
Mailing list
Spark has its own mailing list: spark at cmi dot ac dot in. The mailing list is managed by Anirbit Mukherjee. Here's the Web link for the mailing list. Much of Spark's official communication is carried out through this mailing list.
Wiki
This wiki is an unofficial record of Spark activities. The wiki is managed by Vipul Naik.
Finances/funds
Spark finances are managed by Bodhayan Roy and Moulik. Information on Spark finances are available over the mailing list. It will also shortly be put up over the wiki.
Important pages on the wiki
Category pages
A listing of January 2007 events is also available at Category: Events in January 2007.
A listing of all meetings is available at Category:Meetings.
A listing of pages related to our activities at the CCCL Hexaware site is available at Category: CCCL Hexaware project.
Text pages describing current activities
A quick summary is available at January 2007 report.
These are in reverse chronological order (latest events coming first):
- Agenda for January 30 meeting
- CCCL Hexaware: first interaction with kids
- CCCL Hexaware: further data collection
- January 23 meeting: the details
- Agenda for January 23 meeting
- CCCL Hexaware: the project begins
- The debate rages
- SIPCOT survey
- January 11 meeting
Text pages describing past activities
Please discuss any changes to the wiki in How to organize this wiki.
Photo pages
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