Oakridge Weekend Voyager- A Superb Platform for Experiential Learning

We are living in an age where creativity is ruling the world and others just follow the footsteps. But even to follow the footsteps some creativity is required. How creativity is generated? This question cannot be answered because creativity comes by birth. Don’t need to worry as all of us are born with one or other talent and the only thing need is the right understanding of your best capability and a little bit of polishing. To fulfill this, Oakridge International School is offering a program- Weekend Voyager, to boost up the aptitude of children apart from their academics.

Weekend Voyager (a weekend activity initiative which provides a myriad of opportunities for students of all ages) is being conducted in all Oakridge’s campuses in Hyderabad, (Oakridge Newton campus – Gachibowli, Oakridge Einstein campus - Bachupally and Oakridge Boarding campus –Vishakhapatnam.) Weekend Voyager offer series of workshops on diverse subject areas like Photography, Film Making, Robotics and Fun with Science etc.

At the Vizag campus, the Weekend Voyager workshops commenced from 2^nd September, 2012 onwards on every Sunday 9 am to 12 noon for children in the age group of 6 to 16. Workshops on Robotics, Photography, Film Making and Fun with Science are happening with great enthusiasm from the students’ side. Subject matters like this are often considered as rocket science where you need to know a lot of technicalities to understand it properly. But the workshops are bringing it down to a level where it becomes easy for the children to get in touch with subject without any obstacle under the guidance of a proficient mentor. The participants will be provided various tool kits for each course to keep them familiar with the machinery and experience every aspect of it in detail

More than 70 kids registered for these four workshops and some even opted more than one course. Two more workshops are lined up for the coming weekends covering Theatre Workshop and Aero Modeling. After completing each workshop, the participant will be given certificates on particular subject and in a workshop like Film Making; students will be preparing a full-fledged short film by the end of it.

The appraisals from children are growing day by day concerning the workshops and interestingly their parents are happier than them because of the opportunities provided to their kids. And they believe this will help children in identifying their area of interest and also opting best suited career for them.