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 Participation -6000+ Submissions 3000+ Strong reach of close to 50,000 institutions & 1 lakh+ students in 4 years Engagement – close to 95,000

Some of the winning teams of past years Gyan Mandir Delhi IIT Delhi Sardar Patel Vidyalay, Delhi Purv Madhyamik Vidyalay, Bibipur, Lucknow, UP IIM – Indore IIM Shillong Rachana School Ahmedabad Anand Niketan, Sewagram, Wardha, Maharashtra XLRI, Jamshedpur Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai RV College of Engineering, Bangalore Sri Kumarans Children’ Home, Bangalore Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor, Kerala NIT, Trichy IIM Kozhikode SCHOOLS COLLEGES

Schools For more details visit 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 For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/school.php

Schools get to choose from 2 themes Biodiversity is a new theme introduced this year For more details visit http://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 Sources of Information – Sources of information could be resource books, experts, local nursery, Internet, Newspapers and also teachers. Primary and Secondary information – First hand and second hand information. How much time will be needed – Ideally, Part A activities and documentation would take each team about 6 weeks, with approximately 2-3 hours per week for a team of 5 students.

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 Understanding, thought and presentation of diverse perspectives to issues raised in Part B

A special treat for the first 100!

Last Date for submissions – October 31st Get started! For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian Register Step 1 Submit Step 2 Get Shortlisted Step 3 Win ! Step 4 Last Date for submissions – October 31st 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!

Introduction to the College program Wipro earthian - A sustainability education program

How to participate! For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Read the problem statement & share your design for an urban system – Pick a topic! Read the problem statements on these 3 topics and share your suggestion of a better system design! For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

A Wipro earthian 2015 special! Last Date for submissions – October 31st For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php

Continuous Engagement Program Wipro earthian internship Business School Sustainability Symposium 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 Engineering Colleges Symposium Strategic intervention in college student driven events For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php

Walking The Talk : Wipro earthian interns Meet Tejaswini Halthore “ Wipro earthian internship was a life changing experience!” 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. For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/cep.php

Get started! For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php Register Step 1 Submit Step 2 Get Shortlisted Step 3 Win ! Step 4 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!

Look out for the Wipro earthian 2015 poster in your campus! For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php Email id – earthian.contact@wipro.com

Last Date for submissions – October 31st Thank you For more details visit http://www.wipro.org/earthian/colleges.php