 A very good evening to parents and students of Helpro International School since where my name is Anansh Prasad. I'm the founder and managing director of Skillsphere Education and I'm sure you've seen me on multiple occasions in online sessions, in offline sessions and in general across the years. Skillsphere Education is very closely associated with EIS and we are so happy and we are so grateful to all of you parents as always for the different opportunities that you give us. As far as this video is concerned it's actually a video that we are making to help the students and the school with the selection process for TEDx Helpro International School an exciting and prestigious event that the school is organizing in the second week of February I believe basically in February 2020 I'm not quite sure about the exact dates the school will share that with you. But as far as TEDx is concerned it's a renowned concept globally which stands for transformation entertainment design if I'm not mistaken and it generally focuses on ideas that are worth spreading. There are a range of speeches in these TEDx events as well which are given by some of the most distinguished and motivational speakers across the world that focus on a range of different ideas, things that you would have probably never heard of, of the concepts and in general inspire, encourage and motivate everyone. TEDx events are actually not directly organized by the organization TED. It's actually a license. You get a license to organize a TEDx event which allows a particular organization to go ahead and conduct a TEDx event of this sort. There are only 3,000 events of this sort since the inception of TED over a decade and a half back that have taken place and I'm so glad that EIS has received this license. It's very prestigious and typically what happens in TEDx events is that speakers who are very renowned, motivational, are given the opportunity to speak. I'm so glad that EIS has decided to use TEDx as an opportunity not only to inspire its students via others but inspire its students via its students themselves. So it's decided to actually make sure that a few of the speakers in this TEDx event are going to be students too and in fact students right from the age group of grades 3 to grade 12. There are specific number of slots that have been saved for the students. Speaking during a TEDx session is something that requires a lot of training and rest assured the school will do it. But in order to give everybody a free and fair opportunity to get selected, there is a criteria which has been introduced. Any student who wants to get selected needs to send a five minute recording, not less than four minutes, not more than six minutes or around the five minute mark, five minute recording of he or she speaking on a topic related to the theme disruptive ideation and 21st century learning. So disruptive ideation, that is a theme for TEDx at the International School today as well. So disruptive ideation is basically ideas that have completely disrupted the way the world works in a positive way. Things like Ola, Uber, Amazon, computers, a typewriter in earlier times, in current times, online health care, online learning. All of these are disruptive ideas that have changed the way we run the world. And these disruptive ideas have really inspired us to be the way we are. And we'd like to discuss more of these disruptive ideas, not only the ones that exist, but disruptive ideas that students might have or disruptive ideas that students have worked on to some extent. So that's what disruptive ideation focuses on. 21st century learning focuses on those 21st century skills and the learning essential for students to do well in the current world in today's times. Skills like collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, social skills, all of these are very important skills as well. So students can decide whether they'd like to speak on 21st century learning or they'd like to speak on some disruptive ideation or blend both topics in. What's very important is whatever topic you choose. For example, you might choose collaboration as a topic to speak on. As far as 21st century learning is concerned, it's a part of the theme. The theme is quite vast. So if you decide to choose 21st century learning and you decide to speak on collaboration, you should not simply speak on the importance of collaboration, but also take an example from your own life. Try and connect the speech to yourself and how you have seen it work and how you believe collaboration is the entire way forward. All right. So choose any topic you can choose. Existent ideas, you can choose ideas of your own. If you're talking about disruptive ideation or 21st century learning, you can choose any concept of 21st century learning or skills that you believe are essential in 21st century skills. Talk about these, make a five minute recording and I believe the school has sent all the details of how it has to be sent with a subject lying to a particular mail ID. You need to send it I believe by 20th of December 2020 and post that the school will get back to you on who's selected. Don't worry. Grade three and grade 12 students are not going to be judged under the same yardstick. There are specific slot say for students from grades three to five, grade six to eight grades nine to 12. All right. So people are going to be completing in those specific categories itself. And it's just a learning process. It does not matter if you don't get selected. Do try and send in a video because it's really going to help you empower the way you think. All right. Beyond the selection, once you're selected, I'm sure that you're going to be completely trained. So don't worry about that. Thank you so much. And I look forward to seeing some of your recordings. Bye bye