ACCET Toronto meet with ‘எங்கேயும் எப்போதும் ராஜா’, A grand Musical Event by Ilayarajah

ACCET-87 batch mates plan to have a get-together in Toronto to celebrate around Nov-3, and also attend Ilayaraja’s first event in North America! Since ‘எங்கேயும் எப்போதும் ராஜா’ is on the Nov. 3rd, We can have a meet on 2nd or 4th. This will be a chance to meet all the North American ACCET-87 batch mates, who missed the SJC in KKDI.ALL ARE INVITED!

So far, confirmed attendees from US are Suresh (with family) and Rajeshwar. They will be here from Nov. 1st till 4th.

http://www.trinityeventsonline.com/
If you like to attend ‘எங்கேயும் எப்போதும் ராஜா’, you can purchase the ticket from ticket master @ http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1000492DBB8FB65B . If you have difficulty, let us know.
If you like to come, let us know your preferred date for the get together to make arrangements.
Contact Sailesh / Vashishtar / Vimal for help with booking tickets and accommodation.

Family Get together on December 30th

Hi All,

We are planning to have a family get together on December 30th at North Chennai Thermal Power Station. The event is a visit to the Thermal Power Station where we can have a glimpse of the entire process of production of Electricity. We will meet at 10:30 am. After  the visit & meeting, we will have lunch. That will be followed by a tour of the Ennore port. We will also arrange a visit to one of the ships carrying cargo, subject to availability.

Due to security concerns, We are required to make passes for every visitors. Please confirm your attendance by both email and also in the comment column of accet.net. You are requested to specify the number of attendees.

The following details are required.

Name, Age, Father/Husband Name, Address

Thanks & Regards

M.Sudarsan

ACCET 2012 Placement Season

Dear All,

This is the start of the Placement Season and our College is planning on a campaign to introduce and invite companies to come on campus and recruit students. As part of this campaign the Placement team headed by Mr. Ravikumar and Mr. Nachiappan will be in Chennai between Oct 3-5 and in Bangalore after that. They are looking for opportunities to talk to some Alumni who can introduce them to companies (their own or companies they work for) who are willing to come to KKDI for recruitment.

I think this is a good opportunity to give back to the college by participating in the placement program. Those interested can email or call the ACCET placement team directly. Below are the contact details

R.Ravikumar, M.E.,
Placement Officer,
Email:accet.placement@gmail.com,
Mobile: 9443146556

S.Nachiappan,
Placement Coordinator,
Email:accet.placement@gmail.com,
Mobile: 9443146556

 

ASSET87 Session #4

First, let me thank, Vilva and Rajeshwar for the opportunity given to stay at ACCET for the whole day on 26.09.2012 to witness the ASSET87 training program.  Students are really happy and enjoy the sessions.  They are away from the regular class work and learn some life skill which make them enjoyable.  The feed back from the students are also encouraging us to go further.

SJC Expenses

When we first started mobilising funds for the SJC we had promised that we will have a transparent system and publish the details of the expenses on our website. It has taken a while to catch up on the accounting. Here is the summary of the expenses.

Expense Category Amount (Rs)
Mementos – 134 watches, 150 planners, 150 bags & 125 snackpacks
 3,16,542
Catering – Persons served: Breakfast – 250, Lunch – 700+, Dinner – 225
 3,00,000
Orchestra 83,500
Event Management 55,525
Gift – faculty, staff & volunteers 30,710
Stage & Hall decoration 25,000
Miscellaneous 23,050
Photo / Video / WebCasting 22,000
Graphics & Artwork Production 18,100
ASSET87 Plaque 14,385
Memory Chest 12,115
Accommodation – Chief Guest, Event Manager, Entertainement Team 7,800
Local transportation 7,500
Website – domain name & hosting for 2 years
 5,700
Cleaning operations 5,000
Invitation printing & mailing 5,000
Trust formation 4,850
Grand Total 9,36,777

 

Disclosures

  1. A few gifts were left after the event:
    1. Four rechargeable torches (value Rs. 90 each). Saravanan, Krishnamurthy, Vilva and Sudarsan were given 1 each
    2. Two sets of pens (value Rs. 225 each). Rajeshwar & Boby Thomas were given one set each
  2. The amounts spent on gifts includes a sum of Rs. 3,500 incurred in buying a cellphone as a gift for Mr. Nehru who is Rajeshwar’s general assistant. Nehru has been a constant member of the team, serving us at all the meetings in Rajeshwar’s office and did countless chores for the SJC, most of the time after normal work hours. So, the SJC committee decided to give him a gift commensurate to his deeds.
  3. The domain hosting has been provided by Rajeshwar’s company. We have been provided unlimited space and bandwidth for a nominal price of Rs. 2,000 per year.

ASSET87 Session #3

I had the privilege of overseeing the third session of ASSET87. It was a day long event. 5 sessions in the morning and 5 sessions in the evening. The program was well attended. The energy and enthusiasm of students, trainers were infectious. The support from college was very good.

The trainers were competent and experienced in imparting similar training to other colleges. So they were able to deliver the content in a professional manner.

The session was on ‘Listening skills’. After the initial ice breaker session (group activity) audio was played and students were asked to respond to questions in the hand outs. Summary session at the end of the audio had students narrating their experience.

It was hectic but enjoyable day with powerful learning sessions.

ASSET87 has picked momentum. Students who missed first 2 sessions were seen attending. When asked they said ‘Initially we thought it would be another class room type lecture session. From our friends we found it is more of group activity based learning. Hence we want to attend and take the learning’.

The event was video graphed and would be uploaded here.

SJC Photos

Many of you contacted me saying that you had problems uploading the photos. There were some problems in the feature and I have developed a new upload feature using dropbox. which you can access here – https://accet87.in/sjc-photos-share/

Please first zip the files and make sure the zipped file is under 75mb in size. You can then proceed to upload the file.

Bigger the file longer will be he upload time. The upload time depends on your internet speed. Upload speed is usually lower than download speed.

You need to log in to upload files.

Please give this a try. Let me know how it goes.

ASSET87 – Volunteers Required

The first 3 sessions of the ASSET87 program have rolled out smoothly even though there were some logistic challenges and trainer tantrums. The trainers have now settled down and the students have also got a feel of the course and how it will follow through. We hope the sessions will now become routine with everyone knowing what to do and when. However, with all the investment and work that’s gone into this program, it makes sense to have someone from our batch be present during each of these sessions.

The first session on August 22nd was supervised by me. Rajeshwar attended the next session on August 29th and Krishnamurthy audited the third session on September 5th. We have 4 sessions coming up in this semester on the following dates:

  1. 26/09/2012 (Wednesday)  – Dr. Kannan has already volunteered for this session.
  2. 03/10/2012 (Wednesday)
  3. 10/10/2012 (Wednesday)
  4. 31/10/2012 (Wednesday)

We need volunteers who can go on these dates to the college and spend the day watching / listening to the sessions. The idea is to not only show our commitment to the program, but also do a continuous evaluation of the trainers and the course content. This is going to help in improving the program in next semester and the following year.

By being a volunteering you not only help the ASSET87 Program it can also help you:

– If you are a Professorsit helps you design a similar program for your college
– Entrepreneurs and Businessmen can evaluate the program for their own company
– Others employed in corporates can recommend a similar program to their company

We are looking for 1 or 2 volunteers at least per session. We will provide you guidelines on what to do when you are there. At the end of the session you need to file a feedback report and fill the Trainers’ Assessment Form. We would like to finalize the list of volunteers in about 10 days. Please let us know by replying to this post or email/phone us.

The Board of Trustees in the last meeting decided to cover travel & hotel expenses (at actuals), subject to a limit of Rs. 2,000 per session.

Thanks.