Blood Donation Camp - Jan 2013

"Everyone wants to serve the world, We have taken our first step in reaching to the mankind " - Kanaa Team.

Date   : 26-Jan-2013

Venue :  Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chrompet.

On saturday (26/01/2013), Republic day. Lions Club and Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chrompet had conducted a blood donation camp. The event started off with the flag  hoist in the premises of Vivekanananda Vidyalaya from 8.30 am to 9.30 am. Mr.Ravindran, Correspondent-Vivekananda Vidyalaya had requested our team to take part in the event. Renu Karthick, Thameem, Saravanan from KANAA  team attended the flag hoisting ceremony.

 A team of 2 Doctors, 4 Nurses and 5 helpers from VHS (Voluntary Health Service), Chennai arrived  at the venue by 9 a.m and started their preparation for the drive.

Blood donation drive started by 9:30 am. We expected 3 categories of donors.

1. Donors registered through KANAA.
2. Alumni's of Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
3. Parents of Children's who are studying in Vivekananda Vidyalaya.

Mr. Ravindran, Suggested us to take responsibility of donors. We had to receive them, help them in filling registration forms, we also had to guide them to the blood donation room and provide them the nutrients after they donate blood. We split the responsibilities among ourselves and started working for the camp.
 

Key features about the drive:

• AC Hall with 10 beds were allocated for the drive.
• Nutrients provided by VHS for the donors after donating blood.
• Tea and snacks was provided for each donor before donating blood
• An exhibition about vivekananda took place inside the school premises, donors were allowed to visit the exhibition before and after donating blood.
• Tea, snacks was provided for our volunteers during the drive and Lunch was provided for our volunteers after the drive by Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
• Momento's were provided for all the volunteers from Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
• We expected around 150 units of blood but we had 335 active donors and got around 270+ units of blood.

We thank every donor who came forward to give blood, We thank Mr. Ravindran, Correspondent, Vivekananda Vidyalaya for engaging us and recognizing our efforts and service towards humanity. Our special thanks to the Parents, Teachers and the Alumnus of Vivekananda Vidyalaya who supported this camp and made the event a grand success.

We thank the VHS team (Voluntary Health Service, Chennai) for guiding us in this service. We also thank all the members and volunteers from Lions Club and Vivekananda Vidyalaya.
Last but not the least, it wouldn't have been possible to bring together such a huge amount of donors and win their patience towards a social motto. It happend because of our team work, 23 volunteers from KANAA & their time for this valuable serive. Thank you for the support. Way to go team!!!

Seminar on Mobile Technology

Date: 26/09/2012

Venue: Crescent Engg College

On request from Mrs.Anusuya. T, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, Crescent Engineering College. We planned to conduct a seminar on Mobile Technology for the final year students of IT Dept. Accordingly, On 26th, September 2012 we had conducted sessions on different mobile technologies like Android, iOS and also we had taken a session on Scope on IT.

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi. C, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology introduced our team and the chief guests to the students. Following the introduction, Mr. RenuKarthick Sukumar of KANAA team given introduction about KANAA and team, also he briefed about the activities, events conducted by KANAA. Then, he introducted Mr. Balamurugan Rajamani, who has 3+ years experience in iOS technology worked in different corporates and created various applications in iOS which is available in itunes(Apple Apps Store) and Mr. NirmalKumar Sathiamoorthy, who was a budding entrepreneur and founder of INSANE LABS. Mr. Nirmal was part of the LIMCA Book of Records, June 2012. (Ref: Article dt. Jun22,2012, Hindu) and also he has conducted various workshops at at SSNCE, SRM, PEC etc.

Then, Mr. Balamurugan has started his session on iOS technology, he initially started with an interaction with students regarding the Mobile technology and explained the evolution of iOS, continued with the various developments in iOS. He had shown demo on how to create an application using iOS technology for iPhone and iPad. He initiated students to create their own applications with their ideas and he had given ideas for developing applications of their own. Finally, he briefed about various opportunities and emerging scope on iOS technology which will be the future of mobile technology.

Mr. Nirmalkumar, started showing demo on his own applications which he created and interacted with the students grasping their knowledge about the Android devices and applications. Then, he started with the history of android and given demo on creating applications on android using Eclipse IDE. He has given ideas to create applications using open sources which will be the future of IT.

Then, Mr. RenuKarthick started a session on Scope on IT. He started with the different technologies available in the market and the scope of each technologies. Then, he delivered a list of ideas for the freshers How to face interviews and various problems that will be faced by freshers. He also motivated students to structure and shape their career.

Finally, Mrs. Anusuya. T, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Information Technology thanked the KANAA team and the chief guests for their valuable time and a interactive session evoking the students ideas & their level of Knowledge. Mrs. Latha Tamilselvan, Head of Department thanked our team for providing valuable session and she asked for more sessions and workshops on different technologies in upcoming days.