MoM - Jan '10

CSS January Meet- 3rd January 2010

The meeting was organized at Independence Day Park near Valluvar Kottam and started at 3.30pm
Main Agenda-

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  Mylapore Festival organized by Sundaram Finance- from 21st to 24th January 2009- 5.30- 9.00pm
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  Main cultural event-
  Folk dance
  Skit- street theater/ musical drama
  Mime/ variety programme
  Possibility of the visually challenged students skit on the day- Government Higher Secondary School For Blind
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  Selection committee- Headed by Murali and supported by Prithvi, Venkat, Jeyanthi, Bala, Lakshmi and Gunalan
  The venue for final selection will be confirmed by Saravanan at Fine Arts College
  The initial process will begin with our volunteers approaching colleges and then seeking permission to nominate their students for any of the three category of the events; college can nominate max of 1 team in each category
  The final selection will take place at common venue with no. of teams and time duration shall be discussed later
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  The volunteers to approach colleges are Kandaswami, Anna Adarsh, Valliammal, St Thomas Arts and Science, DG Vaishnav and Mar Gregorious- Bala, Gunalan, Sangeetha
  Loyola, Stella Maris, WCC- Jeyanthi; Vel’s College- Sangeetha
  Fine Arts Egmore- Saravanan
  MGR Janaki- Prithvi
  MCC- Abdul
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  Tentative participants
  Jeyanthi- Loyola college Karagam dance
  Akruthi environment team- Karthik team
  En Paerm Maram- a performance by Bala and Ashwath
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  The idea of ‘Make a Tree’- the college students can take part in this competition wherein the students will do a collage representing tree with various recyclable items and they get to display their art work at the event and best three will be rewarded- Tiru and Anitha
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  The volunteers approaching colleges can take this idea also with them as ask for nominations
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  Event preparations- stall in-charge and decorations
  Stall decorations to be done by Karthik and Saravanan( Fine Arts College student)- danglers and posters
  CSS stall can also be used
  Stall LCD display- Saravanan- referred by Sathyamoorthy
  The video content to be put on LCD will be gathered by Sudha Mohan, Dr. Ashwin and Lakshmi
  Flash content - to be designed by Tamilarasi
  Posters on the day of the event- to be designed by Charu and supported by Divya
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  An idea for putting up a cloth in the background and pasting/ sticking/ pin ups of environment related themes- requirement huge cloth material and required stationery
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  Games at the stall- ring games, mehendi hand painting (Nethra), face tattooing or hand tattooing (Saravanan)
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  Coupons for lucky draw- answer simple questions and take home prizes with their interest and preferences marked behind the card- Vasu idea development
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  At the stall- Dora costume arrangement- Swaminathan
  Display items at the stall- reused plastics by Prema- referred by Tiru
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  SHG team presence
  Murali has referred Jute bag unit at the venue
  the idea of paper bag preparation at the unit
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  The cloth bag distribution team- will involve in distributing cloth bags to shops in and around Mylapore- volunteers to be identified
  Stall Management Team- This team will man the stall and take queries and interaction with public
  Proposal to put up a huge board for people to pen down their views on environment-to be consulted with Event organizers
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  The media will be handled by Sathyamoorthy and Nethra shall use her community radio platform

New members who have attended the meeting are Nandhini; Tamilarasi, Sudha Mohan and Saravanan

CSS Updates-

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  A vote of appreciation for all those who made 2009 memorable for society through CSS- Star of the Month
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  Various team heads, their deputies and their good work
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  Intro. About Gopinath, 3rd year Anna University student and his Sangharsh team’s efforts in helping deserving orphanages/ old age homes or destitute homes development- the musical event scheduled for March 27th 2010.
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  The CSS sponsorship for children’s toupe at Government School for Blind, Poonamallee - the request was forwarded by Murali
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  We had few members coming from Del TV and have expressed desire to telecast our video content in En Paer Maram and Road Safety.
  
  Members who attended the meeting are-Venkat, Lakshmi, Jagdish, Dr. Ashwin, Gunalan, Tiru, Abdul, Hari, Charumathi, Krishnan, Murali, Karthik, Swaminathan, Nethra, Sathya, Anjali, Bala, Prithvi, Sudha, Tamilarasi, Nandhini, Vasu, Divya, Sridhar, Saravanan, Gopinath, Parthiban, Palanidurai, Ashwath, Sangeetha, Satish