Jubail: Students Given Tips on Career at Global Toastmasters Club Workshop
Media Release
Jubail, Oct 31: Global Toastmasters Club, one of the popular Toastmaster clubs in Jubail hosted a unique workshop on 'Child Development Programme' for the benefit of students of Indian International School, Jubail recently. The workshop was held at deluxe Ibn Zahr beach camp of Jubail Industrial town.
The workshop turned out to be a huge success with the active participation of good numbers of students belonging to 10th ,11th and 12th standards. The principal of Indian International School, who himself was one of the presenters in the workshop, had cheered the students for participation as he considered it as a dire necessity for students studying in Saudi Arabia. A good number of people from Toastmaster fraternity and parents were also present on the occasion.
The programme began with the reading of mission statement of Toastmasters International by Toastmaster Aziz Siddiqui, who also welcomed the president of the club Toastmaster Shameer Ahmed to initiate the workshop.
Toastmaster Shameer Ahmed, a Mangalorean heading this club, emphasized the need for such a programme as it helped the students to decide upon their educational career, overcome the hurdles related to memory enhancement and performance improvement. He said he was proud to lead such a club which had pioneered various programmes of interests in the past.
DTM PGR Nair, a veteran toastmaster in Jubail delivered a motivational speech to kindle students’ interest in toastmaster activities.
A memory enhancement workshop was conducted by Dr Geetha Ramakrishna, a dietician, who is presently working as science teacher at American Embassy School in Jubail. She explained various techniques of memory enhancement. The workshop ended with a question-answer session in which students participated enthusiastically.
The second workshop of the day was conducted by Ramesh, ex-principal of an engineering college in Bangalore. He spoke about the various disciplines and faculty of learning available in the engineering field and explained the career options open for engineering students. However, he stressed that students should choose a field of study which is compatible with their interests or skills rather than bowing to parental pressure. A brief question-answer session followed it to clarify the doubts of the students.
Dr Syed Hameed, the principal of Indian International School Jubail conducted a work shop on ‘After 12th, What?‘ He explained various issues related to admission to professional colleges, entrance tests etc. The question-answer segment of this session was handled by Prof Mohd Nagur Meeran, the competitive head-cum-math’s teacher of IISJ.
Toastmaster Waheed Latheef, the ex-division ‘L’ governor honoured the presenters with plaques. Toastmaster Shameer Ahmed in his concluding remarks said he was impressed with the presentations and would be pleased to rejoin the school if the principal provided the opportunity.
Programme coordinator Toastmaster Ramesh Deshpande compered the programme and Toastmaster Javed Ansari proposed the vote of thanks.
The logistics was managed by Toastmaster Mohammed Safare, catering by TM Suresh and TM Aziz Siddiqui, floor management by TM Javed Ansari, TM Ramaswamy, TM Binod Bihari Sahoo in coordination with president Shameer Ahmed.
The workshop was conducted free of cost for the children. Sumptuous lunch and refreshments were served to the participants.