PAVING THE PATH TO SUCCESS
Career Guidance Program
A Responsibility that Shree Niketan always Owns
Every year, an exclusive is organized at the campus which serves as a support platform for the students to get valuable insights CGP and exposure about the opportunities available. An array of eminent personalities from various Professions visit and interact with our students through our CGP and this has immensely helped students weed out self-doubt and make surer decisions based on their interests, leading to long-term satisfaction with their choices and a life lived with purpose.
For over 17 years, Shree Niketan has been helping its students in shunning ambiguity in making career choices. Around 1500 Students from Grade 9 to 12 are provided with the opportunity to witness and interact with eminent Professionals and Consultants through this program. Our Alumni, who have emerged as Top Professionals and placed in Key Positions in organizations, were also roped in for the CGP
Dare to Dream, Reach for the Sky
D2D
Shree Niketan Group is committed to the belief that role models play a crucial role in propelling students toward greater achievements. Since 2006, the group has consistently included visits from accomplished individuals in its annual events calendar. Through the ‘Dare to Dream, Reach for the Sky’ initiative, students are provided with valuable opportunities to interact with distinguished personalities, drawing inspiration and motivation from their impactful presence.
Paralympians Visit
15th edition of this initiative was celebrated on October 25, 2021 with three of the celebrated Paralympians-Mr. Sharad Kumar -Bronze medallist in High Jump, Mr. Harvinder Singh, Bronze medallist in Recurve archery and Ms.Avani Lekhara, Gold medallist -10m Air, Bronze medallist in 50m Rifle shooting. Our students had the opportunity to witness the event and be motivated from the achievers’ individual story by interaction and be inspired from their incredible road to glory.”
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Sri. Kailash Satyarthi
Noble Peace Prize winner
Kailash Satyarthi is a renowned Indian child rights activist and the winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. He is the founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), an organization dedicated towards the eradication of child labor and rehabilitation of the rescued former child workers. Child labor is a rampant problem in India where millions of young children are engaged in various forms of work instead of attending schools. Satyarthi has been working as a children’s rights activist from the past many years and has liberated over 80,000 child laborers since 1980. Even as a child he was moved by the plight of other children who were made to work by their parents, and wanted to do something for them. He studied to become an electrical engineer but this profession gave him no satisfaction.
While in his mid twenties, he ditched a lucrative engineering career to work for the welfare of child laborers, many of whom were forced to work by their parents while others were held as bonded laborers by business houses. He formed the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA)—literally meaning, ‘Save Childhood Movement’—in order to create awareness about this widespread evil and to rescue children from the clutches of bonded labor. He has been honored with several awards for his relentless humanitarian work, including the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 which he shares with the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay. Source ( https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/kailash-satyarthi-5385.php)
In 2017, Kailash Satyarthi visited Shree Niketan Group of Schools as a part of Kailash Satyarthi children’s Foundation Initiative – “Bharat Yatra – A march to end Sexual Abuse and trafficking of Children” across the country. At Shree Niketan Matriculation school campus, he addressed over 5000 children from 6 different schools in the town. Children along with Kailash Ji pledged and took an oath to stand up and speak out against crimes committed against Children.
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Dr Ken Johnston & Mr Shaun Moss
Dr Ken Johnston, former Test Pilot NASA and Mr Shaun Moss, founder, The International mars Research Station ( 4th February, 2017)
Dr (Mr) Ken Johnston addressed the gathering and briefed on the mission to moon by NASA with a photo compilation. Mr Shaun Moss took everyone gathered on a Mars tour with his detailed and informative presentation. The function concluded with a photo session with the guests.
Shaun Moss is a computer scientist with a 15-year passion for Mars. Shaun’s research has included how to make air and steel on Mars, Martian timekeeping systems, terraforming and more, and he has given numerous presentations at conferences in Australia and the United States.
For the past year he has been developing a robust and affordable humans-to- Mars mission architecture with the intention of establishing the International Mars Research Station. He publishes regular writing on Mars at his blog and is working on a book; he has already published a book on one of his other passions, Practical Metaphysics. ( Sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2EAOp7QLc )
Dr. Johnston learned to fly in the US Marine Corps and in the 1960’s and was one of the five test pilots assigned to work with the astronauts during the Apollo Moon Program at NASA in Houston. His job was to help train the astronauts to fly the Lunar Module. He was one of the Test Conductors and became the Test Director of the TM-5 Lunar Module Training Vehicle that was used to train all the Lunar Mission Astronauts. In 1969, Mr. Johnston was responsible for controlling all the Data and Photographic information generated from the Lunar Missions. He has three BS degrees in Aviation and Aerospace Engineering, a Masters in Theology and his PhD. in Meta Physics. (Sourced fromhttp://www.thespaceshow.com/guest/dr.-ken-johnston
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Mr. Mariappan Thangavelu
Shree Niketan strongly believes that the interaction with achievers and eminent personalities have strong influence on students outlook and impact them positively. “Dare to dream, Reach the sky” is an annual feature of the academic calendar. For the twelfth edition of this initiative, Mr. Mariappan Thangavelu, Gold Medalist, Rio Paralymics 2016, visited our campus on 26/11/2016 and inspired the students with his motivational speech.
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Salizhan Sharipov Visits
Russian Cosmonaut Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov is a Kyrgyzstani cosmonaut. Sharipov is a co-author and investigator for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project. He has been to space twice and has conducted two spacewalks. Sharipov retired on 18 July 2008.
On 24th February, 2016, Salizhan Sharipov visited Shree Niketan Group of Schools to inspire and interact with our students. Students put forth various questions regarding his Space Voyage, his struggle to success and his life as a cosmonaut.
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Shree Goutham Gambir Visits
This year, we invited another inspirer Shree Goutham Gambir, whose passion in cricket, has added laurels to our nation, by enriching its sportive pride. This unrivalled man of bat and ball, inspired our students, to dream big, dare to do big, and achieve big. It was a great moment of honour and joy for the entire Niketan family, that hosted him and posed him a host of queries probing deep into his path towards a rain of rewards. The high-flier, confessed that he too was enthused to achieve, by his history teacher, whose industrial nature, moved him to shine above obstacles. Our inquisitive students sought his opinion about the blood-shed on the borders, for which his reply was a firm ‘no’ for further talks with Pakistan. He also emphasized that cricket is indeed a virtuous game, though some stained hands corrupt the game through IPL gambling. Furthermore, on the account of World Organ Donation day, being an organ donor himself, he answered students’ questions on organ donation and its importance. Our students had an optimistic turn of mind thanks to the arrival of an inspirer.
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Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
To mark the 10th edition of our Dare to Dream, Reach for the Sky Initiative, we had none other than the inspiration behind this initiative, Bharat Ratna Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the eleventh President of India. The dream come true mind-blowing moment”, of our ‘Dare to Dream, Reach for the Sky’ programme was realized when our Shree Niketan Groups of schools had the privilege of inviting the most coveted, 11th president of India, Bharat Ratna awardee, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as the Chief Guest for the glorious 10th Edition on 23.09.2014.
Born on the 15th of October 1931, at Dhanushkodi, Rameswaram, Dr. Kalam pursued his schooling in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. He studied physics at the St. Joseph’s College, Thiruchirapalli and aerospace engineering at the Madras institute of Technology, Chennai. He made India an exclusive member of Space Club when SLV-III ejected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980. He led the development of indigenous guided missiles Agni and Prithvi. He also played a crucial role in coordinating Pokhran-II nuclear tests, which continued India’s status as a member of the elite club of countries which posses proven nuclear techonology. His foresight to put technology to multiple uses is exemplified when he used the light weight carbon composite material designed for Agni missile to make callipers for the polio affected.
He has been hailed as India’s first People’s President as he bridged the gap between the common people and the high office. His proactive policies during his tenure brought substantial changes in the life of the common man.
Post his presidency, he aimed at interacting with one lakh students across the country to kindle their spirit and help them follow their dreams. Apart from these interactions his role as a teacher and a professor is highly heralded as he served as a visting and adjunct faculty member at many well known and much acclaimed research institutions all over India. Owing to his contributions to the student fraternity, the UN has declared his birthday, Ocotober 15th, as World Students’ Day.
But beyond all these great contributions, it is his love for India and for his countrymen, especially the children and youth and his single minded devotion to make India, a truly prosperous, self-reliant and a developed nation that has endeared him in the hearts of millions of Indians, like no public figure has done, in the history of modern India.
The programme was a grand success with our noble guest, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalamji sharing pearls of his seasoned wisdom through thoughts that enlightened our students upon the importance of Creativity, the Need for having a big Future Ambition and a formula for Crystallizing Knowledge.
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Sri Sathish Sivalingam visits
Satish Sivalingam is an Indian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the men’s 77 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Gamesat Glasgow, Scotland. Hailing from a humble background from vellore, a dominant Satish Sivalingam rewrote the Games Snatch record enroute to his gold medal winning performance in the men’s 77kg weightlifting event at the Commonwealth Games. We had the privilege of hosting him in the Ninth Edition of our Dare to Dream Series. In the question hour session, he answered students question on the future of weightlifting sport in India. During the session he stated how he had to fight back all odds and still purse with passion for this sport. He encouraged students not to give up and that every single step of hard work will lead them to the Road to success.
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