World Thinking Day
World Thinking Day
World Thinking Day is celebrated on 22nd February annually. This day is all about developing sisterhood and empowering the Girl Scouts around the globe. It is crucial for fostering among young people a sense of global awareness and to encourage them for community service and environmental stewardship. The primary goal of this day is to provide a forum for all women and girls to freely express their thoughts and participate in discussions about priority issues and offer global solutions.
How the world celebrates this day: World Thinking Day remains one of the most important dates in the calendar and every year the theme of the event encourages members to think on various evils that affects the society especially the girls. The theme of this year 2023 is “Our World, Our Peaceful Future: The Environment, Peace, and Security.”
History: It is a celebration of ten million girls worldwide that has taken place on every 22 February since 1926. The name was changed from “Thinking Day” to “World Thinking Day” in 1999 at the 30th World Conference held in Ireland to truly understand the universal nature of this day. The tremendous amount of efforts and hard work put forth by girl scouts and girl guides around the world is the reason why World Thinking Day has become such a worldwide celebrated event around the world.
If we talk about Today’s scenario girls are facing many issues around the world like:
- Violence against women and girls
- Gender pays gap & digital gender divide
- Period stigma
- Underrepresentation as leaders
- Gender discrimination
- Sexual abuse and harassment
- Girls Education
Girls’ education and impact on society: Educating a girl in present can be a miracle in future for the society. Higher education among girls helps to reduce crime rates as these girls are going to be the first teachers for kids in future. Education empowers marginalized women and helps them build better futures for themselves and their families. When a country invests in girls’ education than it transforms that country from a common nation to a prosperous nation.
It contributes to more stable society that give all individuals including boys and men the opportunity to fulfil their potential. But educating a girl is more than just to send them to schools. In reality it is about providing girls a safe environment in classrooms and in society. It is about allowing them to choose the subjects and careers they want to pursue for themselves including those in which they are often under represented like STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers options.
Written by: Mohd. Talib Khan
READ MOREStem Tinkering Lab Set-up at MS Future School
STEM Tinkering Lab Set-Up at MS Future School
Students are enthusiastically inclined to undertake basic science projects
Syed Aleemuddin is a student of MS Future School Mallepally. A fortnight ago, Aleemuddin came to know about the Stem Tinkering Lab set up in his school and was encouraged to carry out basic science projects related to modern technology through this lab. Aleemuddin is currently working on a project to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy. He believes that every moment he spends in the lab is a great learning opportunity.
Mohammed Ibrahim, another passionate student like Syed Aleemuddin, said that whatever I am learning here, I will use this knowledge to invent technology that will be useful for people.
The lab has been opened for students from 21st November, in which two batches of 30 students have been trained in scientific research. Equal opportunity to participate in activities has been provided.
Stem Tinkering Lab established at MS Future School, Mallepally was inaugurated on 17th October to adapt the students with modern technologies. Now the ‘Stem Tinkering and Innovation Lab’ is fully operational and the students are enthusiastically participating in the scientific projects presented by it.
Senior Director of the Academy, Dr. Mohammed Moazzam Hussain, played an important role in making the establishment of the ‘Stem Tinkering and Innovation Lab’ a reality. He expressed his happiness seeing the students engaged in scientific projects in the STEM Lab.
Explaining the purpose of establishing this lab, Mohammad Moazzam Hussain said that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Tinker Lab is designed to develop sustainable advanced skill sets in children to provide them with access to multiple technologies and enable them to solve challenges prevalent in society.
Along with curricular education, the purpose of setting up STEM Tinkering Lab is to develop curiosity, creativity and imagination in the minds of the youth and develop skills like design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc. This lab bestows students with the facility to do 2000 projects on their own besides learning 200 basic concepts of electronics, computer science and robotics. Students from classes Vth to Xth are being provided with an opportunity to use this lab.
Considering the results of the STEM Lab, the management of the MS Education academy has decided to introduce the labs in seven more schools this year, including three in New Delhi, three in Mumbai and one in Kanpur where tinkering labs will be established. Whereas STEM Tinkering labs will be introduced in most schools of Hyderabad from the new academic year.
