SILC: Weekly Digest (1/29/12)

Dear SILC Students, Parents, Teachers and Volunteers:

[1] Thank you for those who have responded to SILC Mela survey. If you have not done the survey yet, please take a minute to respond  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B7J7QZJ  (copy and paste the link if hyperlink doesn't work).  Your inputs are valuable to plan better in future.

[2] Please see the second batch of pictures from our SILC photographer Ajay Patil (Thanks Ajay! These are fantastic pictures)

http://silcpix.blogspot.com/2012/01/silc-mela-2012.html

[3] As you are aware, SILC has gone to TPT studios today to record for "Geetmala" event. Please see Raj Menon's summary of this program below (thanks Raj for the summary). We will let you the time of telecast of this program (and also share any downloadable links TV folks provide us).

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From: raj menon <rklr_menon@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM

It was super! All the performances were highly appreciated.

 

Everyone arrived ahead of time and had lots of fun getting ready and sharing the food provided so thoughtfully by the Geetmala organizers. A special comment from Mukhtar, the founder of Geetmala, after seeing the "Chunari Chunari / Marjani" dance in Bhangra and Giddha format said, "This is one of the best choreographed dances I have seen here" - Go Neelam !

 

Here is the list of performances and participants:

 

#	PERFORMANCE	PARTICIPANTS
1	Vande Mataram	Abhi Nayar, Anushka Mankunath, Devi Patnaik, Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Lata Menon, Mahima Gupta, Shalini Thadani, Sunita Mannamkunath, Suparna Malia, - 10 performers
2	Bhangra & Giddha medley dances set to Chunari Chunari & Marjani by SILC Teens	Aditi Jariwala, Anushka Mankunath, Divya Vundamati, Kavya Devgun Mahima Gupta, Meera Viruru, Puja Patel, Suparna Malia, 8 performers
3	Story telling with Bharatanatyam	Neelam Malhotra - 1 performer
4	Assamese Bihu dance sent to Chad Gayo Paapi Bichooa by SILC Kids (8-10)	Aayushi Sarkar, Aradhana Menon,  Devapriya Baiju, Manashree Padiyath, Morganna Oberdorfer  - 5 performers
5	Kai Kotti Kali from Kereal set to the song Sarasadala Nayanam by SILC Adults	Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Jeyanthi Govindan, Lata Menon, Merlyn Patil, Neelam Malhotra, Renu Krishnan, Shalini Thadani - 8 performers
6	Rajasthani dance set to the song Aaja Nachle	Divya Vundamati, Kavya Devgun, Meera Viruru, Mahima Gupta and Suparna Malia - 6 performers
7	Jana Gana Mana	Abhi Nayar, Anushka Mankunath, Devi Patnaik, Erin Oberdorfer, Jayshree Seth, Lata Menon, Mahima Gupta, Shalini Thadani, Sunita Mannamkunath, Suparna Malia, - 10 performers
8	MC for the program	Manu Achar

 

 

A special and huge thanks to Neelam to pulling all this together to quickly and doing such a great job with it!

 

Regards

Raj

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Answers to last week's Quiz:

[Q] 2012 is declared as "national year of mathematics" by Indian Prime Minister in Dec 2011. Why?

[A] Indian Prime Minister declared 2012 as "National Mathematical Year" as a tribute to maths wizard Srinivas Ramanujan. He also declared December 22, the birthday of Ramanujan, as 'National Mathematics Day". For more details on "Srinivasa Ramanujan", please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

This week's Quiz:
[Q] National motto of United States is : In God We Trust (Official) and E pluribus unum (Latin, Out of many, one).
What is national motto of India?

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Regards
Siva Jasthi
Director - Communications
School of India for Languages and Culture
http://www.silcmn.com
(mobile) 612.217.4821

SILC: Weekly Digest (1/22/12)

Check SILC Mela pictures here http://silc1011.blogspot.com/2012/01/silc-mela-01212012.html


Dear SILC Students, Parents, Teachers and Volunteers:

Thank you to all who made SILC Mela a grand success.

To Sunita and Shiv for taking the lead for this event, for Sonja and Pam for organizing the games, to mangala for handling the tickets and book keeping, to Raj for organizing the garage sale, to Neelam for organizing the prizes, to Raman for the tasty chai, to krishnan and his team for releasing the 2nd SILC news letter, to all the volunteers who helped in running the games, to all of you who donated numerous hours and items to SILC mela and to all the SILC community members who responded to the evite and participated in the mela.

Thanks to the businesses and voluntary organizations (IAM, Vibha, SAP, Kite-wala) who setup the booths at SILC mela this year. Thanks to the businesses (TBS Mart, Pizza Hut, Indian Aroma Restaurant) who donated gift cards to the SILC Mela. And big thanks to all the parents who donated several items to the auction.

SAP team did a wonderful (and colorful) job in show casing their ideas and talent. SAP team stole the show yesterday.  Thank you and congratulations.

Here is the link to some of SILC Mela pictures.  http://silc1011.blogspot.com/2012/01/silc-mela-01212012.html  I will post the second batch of pictures later on and share the link with you in the next digest. Of all the games, it looked like the Face painting and Nail painting became very popular. Special thanks to Mckayla Oberdofer, Mahima Gupta, Kavya Devgun, Suparna Malia, and Meera Viruru - who brought their creative and artistic talents to make all the children happy. They worked tirelessly the entire time without a break in the busiest booth. In face painting specially they came up with new ideas which were a great hit with younger kids.

As some of you have noticed, we have done several things differently this year. (1) Inviting a food vendor to arrange for food (2) Getting evite out to get accurate counts on lunch needs (3) inviting businesses/non-profit orgs to setup booths (4) Special Achievement Project (SAP) team booth. In the process of striving to do better things at SILC, it is possible that there is some more scope to improve next year. You can expect a survey to be sent out some time this week. Please respond to the survey to provide your feedback so that we can incorporate your feedback for the next year.

Answers to last week's Quiz

[Q] 6174 is a magical number discovered by an Indian mathematician. Who is that mathematician? and What does this number signify?

[A]  6174 - Discovered by  Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar,  it is called the Kaprekar Constant.

It is the only 4 digit number which when its digits are arranged in Descending Order (7641) and then in Ascending order (1467) and the numbers so created subtracted (7641-1467) the result is the original number 6174 !

This week's Quiz:

[Q] 2012 is declared as "national year of mathematics" by Indian Prime Minister in Dec 2011. Why?

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Regards
Siva Jasthi
Director - Communications
School of India for Languages and Culture
http://www.silcmn.com
(mobile) 612.217.4821

SILC Mela (01.21.2012)