Welcome to Wipro earthian 2015
Wipro earthian is...
Wipro's Sustainability
Education Programme for
meaningful sustainability
education
exposure to multiple
perspectives
focus on interconnectedness
holistic sustainability
education
engagement over a sustained period
for teachers and students
Knowing Wipro earthian : reach in 5 years
Strong reach of close to 50,000 institutions & 1 lakh+ students in 4 years
Participation -6000+
Submissions 3000+
Engagement – close to 95,000
Some of the winning teams of past years
COLLEGESSCHOOLS
Gyan Mandir Delhi
Sardar Patel Vidyalay, Delhi
Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore
Sri Kumarans Children’ Home, Bangalore
Anand Niketan, Sewagram, Wardha, Maharashtra
Purv Madhyamik Vidyalay, Bibipur, Lucknow, UP
Rachana School Ahmedabad
Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor, Kerala
IIT Delhi
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
IIM Kozhikode
IIM Shillong
IIM – Indore
XLRI, Jamshedpur
RV College of Engineering, Bangalore
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
NIT, Trichy
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
A program with a difference:
Cash award of Rs.1,00,000/- for the top 10 schools in the
country as decided by the internal and external jury
Mr. Azim Premji gives away the awards to the top 10 school teams. Certificates
for all participating schools
Three years continuous engagement programme with winning institutions
Continued committment with support from
recognised and reputed partners organisations
One school can form several teams and submit multiple
entries. Unique opportunity-engage its teachers and
students in sustainability education
Schools
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/school.php
Schools get to choose from 2 themes
Biodiversity is a new theme introduced this year
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/school.php
Water Activity : Booklet Structure
Activities –
Part A, Part A electives & Part B
Part A and Part B are compulsory
Activity is in four parts:
Objective, Instructions, Toolkit and reflections
Scoring parameters –
Part A = 40%, Part A electives = 20 % & Part B =
40%
Biodiversity activity : Booklet structure ...
Part A – Understanding biodiversity in our environment
(40%)
Compulsory activities – Environment as shared space,
Biodiversity among leaves, Leaf munchers, Biodiversity and
changes in environment and What have we learnt?
Elective activities – Build your own terranium, Freshwater
aquarium and Interview (20%)
Part B – The world of biodiversity (40%)
Compulsory activities – The world of biodiversity and
Opening the world of biodiversity
Activities – Objective, Instructions, Toolkit and
reflections
Role of Teachers
Role of teachers –
Teachers must play a supervisory role. Provide guidance, connect the activities,
facilitate discussions, encourage interactions, build connections with
disciplines
Useful Specific pointers...
Part A – Story telling, Poems, Drawings, Illustrations,
Photographs, Videos, Data charts, Graphs and other innovative means could be used but one should loose focus of the core
task.
Part A elective activities - Complete only one of the three
elective
Part B - Part B requires a different approach from Part A.
The purpose of Part B is to connect what you learn about
biodiversity in Part A to the larger context and to other domains.
Evaluation parameters...
Genuineness displayed in documentation, observations recorded, data provided and other evidences of carrying
out the activity sincerely
Creativity and diversity in
documentation
Sense of understanding
displayed in documentation
Display of interconnectedness between activities
Drawing interconnections between issues
Understanding of sustainability
A special treat for the first 100!
Get started!
• 10 Winning school teams. 10 awards of Rs. 100000 for each institution• Trophy for the institution and certificates for the team members• A Continuous engagement in the area of sustainability and education with students and the
winning institutes for next few years• Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. Receive your awards from Mr. Azim Premji!
Step 1Register
Step 2Submit
Step 3Get
Shortlisted
Step 4Win !
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian
Last Date for submissions – October 31st
Wipro earthian - A sustainability education program
Introduction to the College program
How to participate! For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php
Read the problem statement & share your design for an urban system – Pick a topic!
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php
Read the problem statements on these 3 topics and share your suggestion of a better system design!
A Wipro earthian 2015 special!
Last Date for submissions – October 31st
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Continuous Engagement Program
For students from winning institutes, earthian offers a diverse and unique range of sustainability related internship
opportunities that can be undertaken for a period of two months. These internships are offered in partnership with our
highly reputed partner organizations who are domain specialists in sustainability and related areas. It is a great opportunity to engage with students and expose them to
interesting paradigms, schools of thought, innovations and specializations in the sustainability arena
As a part of our long term vision to further sustainability education in India, WIPRO and IIMB have embarked on a
broad collaboration of which am integral part is the curation of national forum of leading Business Schools from across the
country on the topic of `Symposium on Advancing Sustainability Research and Education´ This forum will also act as a platform for Business school faculty to share their learning
experiences in sustainability.
As a part of our long term vision to further sustainability education in India, we are planning a forum of key engineering
colleges´ This forum will also act as a platform for faculty to share their learning experiences in sustainability
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php
Wipro earthian internship
Business School Sustainability Symposium
Strategic intervention in college student driven events
Engineering CollegesSymposium
Walking The Talk : Wipro earthian interns
Student @ BMNIT institute of Technology, Bangalore • One of the winning teams of Wipro earthian 2014• Wipro earthian intern 2014
Internship with Atree @ the project in KMTR.
Meet Tejaswini Halthore
“ Wipro earthian internship was a life changing experience!”
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php
Get started!
• 10 Winning colleges. 10 awards of Rs. 150000 each ( shared by students & institution) • Trophy for the institution and certificates for the team members• A Continuous engagement in the area of sustainability and education with students and
the winning institutes for next few years• Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. Receive your awards from Mr. Azim Premji!
Step 1Register
Step 2Submit
Step 3Get
Shortlisted
Step 4Win !
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php
Look out for the Wipro earthian 2015 poster in your campus!
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php
Email id – [email protected]
Thank youLast Date for submissions – October 31st
For more details visithttp://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php