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Friday, July 10, 2009

Words Shaped to Action, Students Efforts and a Brand New Office

The time has arrived, where months of planning and patience, would finally pay off. A day, when we would be able to capitalize on all the words and convert them into actions. With this small step comes a big responsibility, and with that comes more inspiration and the urge to move forward.

Point10 Team has planned the first major event “A Step Towards Revitalizing The Education Eco-system!” on 8th Aug 2009 at in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The team looks forward to meeting all the interested citizens who are willing to come forward and make us realize this dream of ours and help us shape the future of Education in India. It took nights of planning and phone calls and a tremendous effort from all the members of the Point10 team in organizing and putting forward this event. Members ranging from Students and Volunteers to Industry Professionals and Mentors has played, are playing and will play a significant role in making this event a success, and more importantly carrying the Point10Solutions message across which states: "Revitalizing the Education Ecosystem"

Agenda for the event is quite simple as follows:

1. Distribution of Syllabus Books to 100 Talented/Needy Students (From 3rd Sem) studinyg at various Engineering Colleges across Gujarat.

Kindly visit: http://www.books10project.blogspot.com/ for more details.

2. Introduction to 25+ Mentors from various domains of the industry. (Industry Professionals with 4+ work experience in sectors like Engineering, Sales, Marketing etc.)

3. A brief overview on Point10Solutions dream of Revitalizing the Education Eco-system!

4. Introduction to various Mini-Enterprise concept of Point10Solutions like Business Consulting Group, Event Management Group, Software Development Group etc.

The aim behing these small business groups is to bring on board some professional experience for the students to work with. These portals would aim in recruting Students who are interested in gaining exposure to the real-world like situations on real-time projects all along with their routine course of studies. In addition to that, it would also help these students gain some financial support to meet their personal expenses and give them a sense of responsbility. Flexibililty would be the key here to accomodate student's study and work hours.

As rightly said, "We might not do Good Business, but We will do Business for Good”

You can register yourself for the event on the web @

LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fevents%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Fstep-towards-Transforming-Education-Eco%2Fpub%2F92339&urlhash=NNL4&_t=mbox_mebc

Facebook Event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100577106558&ref=nf#/event.php?eid=107219141548

We extend our gratitude to the following people who have put lot of efforts and spent their valuable time and energy in order to help the students. These people have defined our message of pro-actively helping and taking the initiatve to drive forward.

Dipak Panchasara (CITC), Utsav Talati (AIT), Mayank Kothiya (NIT), Shalin Rabadia (NIT), Ujjwal Talati (IITE), Tirth Patel (CEC), Jignesh Rawal (IITE), Aesha Shah (LDCE), Akash Domadiya (NIT), Pradip (DDIT)

For more on the people behind the screen who are working hard to shortlist talented/needy students from various engineering colleges check out this link: Student Co-ordinators list.

With one step at a time, our next aim is to organize a similar event across different cities with Rajkot next on the list. The expected dates would fall somewhere between 20th to 25th August of this year.

Hard-work, perseverance and dedication does pay off in installations. And one such moment of success came with a major development for Point10Solutions, as we can now move into our new office location on C G Road, after operating from a Cyber Café for 3 months. This would give us a great boost and inspire us even more as it lets us display our efforts and more importantly spread our motto across the community. This would also enable us to be more organized, disciplined in our endeavor and would bring more focus and planning on board.

With this, Point10Solutions, would like to formally invite you all to this event and be a part of our family, our team, our event, our venture but most importantly your dream.

Details of the event:
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Ahmedabad Medical Association
Street: Near Natraj Cinema, Ashram Road
City: Ahmedabad, India.

Best Regards

Point10Solutions Team

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Transforming Education Eco-system !

It’s all about PROACTIVELY helping others.

Pessimistic would say that today people don’t have time for others or how can you trust others to return the favor.

Optimistic would say that everyone in the world expects some favor from others.

· Industrialists expect help from PE Giants or common people thru their IPOs!

· Politicians expect favor from voters!

· Vice Chancellors expect a favor from students to get into their Universities!

· Professors expect a favor from their seniors, juniors to get the work done!

· Young professionals expect a favor from their Boss to get recognized for the increment!

· People expect a favor from their rich relatives to get them out of the financial trouble!


No person in the world would say that he/she never expected a favor from anyone in his/her life!

That’s what we are trying to emphasize here, we all expect some help from someone, but unless we proactively help someone, how can we expect someone to come to us and ask how may I help you ??

Following is the fictional story showing how we can transform our Education Eco-system from the collaborative efforts from all of us.

James Smith – Comes from a low-middle-class family, very smart and intelligent, excellent in sports and studies

Paul Martin – Comes from a high middle class family, Intelligent enough to get the work done, good in sports and studies

Steve Jackson – Comes from a rich family, good in sports and studies

James, Paul, and Smith get admission into the AMR University for their B.Tech (Computer Science).

They need Guidance on how to go about their studies and Syllabus Books (Including reference Books).

They log into the BOOKS10.org to find out if someone is donating the books or not of which of their seniors the books that they need.

James gets to know that there are some people would like to Fund Books for 1 Student for 1 Year, so he contacts them to check whether he can get the Free Books or now, which will really lessen his burden. James informs Paul about the Books10.org to find out whether he would like to get a Free Books or not. Also informs him about the intention behind the “Fund Books for 1 Student for 1 Year”.

Paul gets to know that there are some people who would like to fund books for students and also there are some seniors how have the books that he needs. Instead of getting free books (Paul thinks that he can afford the Books so don’t want to get the Free Books), he chooses to get the old books @ cheaper prices from Seniors Mark and Kevin. He contacts them and finds our that they are already the members of Point10 Student Chapter in AMR University. Mark and Kevin give him the BOOKS as per the convenient price for both the parties and at the same time gives invaluable suggestions to both Paul and James on how to go about his studies.

Steve comes to know about the Books10.org from James and Paul. He likes the concept and tells his parents about the same. His father Mr. Jackson impressed by the enthusiasm from Steve and the concept tells Steve that he would like to fund the books for two of his friends who can not affords the costly higher education.

Also on Books10.org, they find out that there are some Mentors working in MNCs who are willing to help students as and when required. Now they feel much more comfortable now to know that there so many people around him who would help/support/guide them as and when required.

Now they settle down with their studies. But now they have a problem on selecting the right Semester project which is there in the curriculum. Ideally they want to do the project which can benefit them in future, more of industry specific projects which have the potential to become a PRODUCT.

They log into Projects10.org to explore what kind of projects their seniors have done and the resources from where they can get the help for their future projects.

James and Paul come across a project “School Management System” which was developed by Anthony who’s now working for Microsoft. They like the project and want to do something related to “School Management system”. They can see Anthony’s contact information in the portal. They contact Anthony to find out what sort of ground work he did for the project, which are the places he visited, what tools he used etc. Anthony guides them about the project and suggests them to take the project of Anthony and improve project to take it to the next level. They work very hard for the project with guidance from Anthony and other Mentors. Finally they develop a small prototype which can actually be used in School. They successfully implement the “School Management System” in “St. Johns School”, which wouldn’t have the funds to buy expensive software from the professional companies. By this way they get some amazing Industry Experience and at the same time give something back to the society.

Steve and his classmates Mark and Mike want to develop something in Web 2.0 space. He can see lots of projects related Web 2.0 from his seniors from AMR University and other Universities from the state. They contact some of them to get their guidance. And they proactively suggest him on what kind of tools to be used, analysis to be done to make the scalable project. This helps them to better understand the concepts and make friends with Industry professionals. Finally they develop a web portal where they would profile all the SMEs in the state, which can be used by these SMEs as their E-Commerce Platform.

They read newspapers quite regularly. They get to know about the project done by Michael (RICK University Student, RICK University is the most famous University in the town known for hefty placements for students) which sounds very cool but doesn’t have any real-life implication. They feel disheartened that not many people are recognizing their good work.


They log into EUDCATION10.org to inform them the good work done by them.

They get interviewed by Sam (another student from AMR University, member of Point10 Student Chapter). Next day they all get profiled in Education10.org for doing an amazing work for their projects 1. “School Management System” and also the comments from the Principal of “St. John’s School” were mentioned. and 2. An E-commerce portal for SMEs and the comments from the owner of one of the SMEs visited by Steve and his team.

Having seen some interesting work done by the students of AMR University, John (Sr. Journalist from EduTimes Newspaper, prominent Newspaper in the state) writes a story on his column about these students.

James and Paul are trying to find out the ways from where they can earn something to cope with their expenses. Also Steve and his friends want to get bit of experience on Market Research projects.

They log into Jobs10.org to find our which are the companies giving projects/internships/jobs to the students who want to work 4-5 hours daily to meet their educational expenses and get industry experience during their studies.

James and Paul find out that “MIT Solutions”, leading IT solutions provider, want to expand their business into Education vertical, looking for the bright students who can work for 3-4 hours daily. They have already learned a bit about the tricks of this trade during their “School Management System” , it becomes very easy for them to impress the Interviewer and get selected. Now they’ll be able to earn something to reduce the burden for their parents. At the same time they will get an amazing work experience which will help them in future.

Steve and his friends, gets selected by a “MML Industries” who want to hire some intelligent students for part-time for the Market Research and Awareness campaign before their New Product Launch. Steve and his friends gets selected in the company, they get to learn lot of things and also get good marks for their semester project.

Now,

· They don’t have to dependent on Campus interviews!!

· They are competent enough to take on sharks of the industry!!

· They can choose the kind of profile/company they want to work with!!

· Having gone thru the Point10 ideology, James, Paul and Steve decide to go to near by slums, rural

areas to teach (Impart basic skills) the under privileged students.

· They also PROACTIVELY take part in the various activities being carried out by Government

Organization and NGOs for the betterment of the Society.

· They also proactively share their experience/skills with the Youth over there on how they can get the

jobs in BPOs, ITES, and Sales Organization, which really can help them in future.

We might not get successful in our Endeavors if we don’t have

· Young Professionals funding the books for at least 1 student for 1 year!

· Mr. Jackson showing the willingness to fund books for couple of students!

· Mark and Kevin (seniors) giving valuable guidance to Paul for his further studies!

· Anthony working in Microsoft (Alumni – AMR University) doesn’t show the proactiveness to guide

James and Paul!!

· Principal (St. John’s School) allow James and Paul to understand about their day-to-day operations!

· Sam become the active member of Point10 Student Chapter to take interviews of fellow students doing

good work!

· John (Sr. Journalist –EduTimes) profile the good work done by the students of AMR University in his

column!

· MIT Solutions and MML Industries showing the willingness to give students to give the opportunity to

exercise their potential!

· James, Paul and Steve proactively help the under privileged students living around them!

· James, Paul and Steve proactively help the under privileged students living around them !

But we will be highly successful if we have

· Young Professionals funding the books for at least 1 student for 1 year!

· Mr. Patel showing the willingness to fund books for couple of students!

· Amit and Kapil (seniors) giving valuable guidance to Rohit (Junior) for his further studies!

· Ramesh Chauhan working in L &T InfoTech (Alumni – Nirma University) shows the proactiveness to

guide Rahul and Rohit (Students of Nirma University)!!

· Principal (Anand Niketan School) allow Rahul and Rohit to understand about their day-to-day

operations!

· Mayank, Shalin and Utsav become the active member of Point10 Student Chapter to take interviews of

fellow students doing good work!

· Journalists from AM,TOI and DNA profile the good work done by the students of lesser known colleges.

· EInfochips and Gateway Technolabs show the willingness to give students to give the opportunity to

exercise their potential!

· Mayank , Shalin and Utsav proactively help the under privileged students living around them !

We are pretty much sure that one day we will replace the Fictional Characters mentioned above with the rea-life characters with real-life stories.


At Point10, we are putting in everything that we have to make this belief happen!!


You can check our project progress @


Point10 Solutions Projects brief : www.point10solutions.blogspot.com


Books10.org Official Blog and progress : www.books10project.blogspot.com


Jobs10.org Official Blog and progress : www.jobs10project.blogspot.com


We would need your invaluable critical feedback and guidance to get better!!


Thanks and best regards,


Team Point10,

team.point10@gmail.com