Smile Foundation

Birla Soft offered Disha Scholarship through Smile Foundation to the UG students from the first to the third years. From our college 59 students registered for this scholarship. After the aptitude test round, interview over the phone and home verification, 45 students were awarded the sum of Rs. 25,000/- as a scholarship for the academic year 2022-2023. BirlaSoft launched this project at BirlaSoft office, Kandancavadi, Chennai on February 15, 2023 and gave intimation letter to the selected students.

●    Birlasoft & Smile Foundation conducted a training program for 125 students from various Colleges in CTTE College for Women. 

●  Session 1 began by narrating a story about importance of self esteem and the ill effects of comparison. Then there was an activity conducted to give an insight about team work, focus, motivation and unity.

●    In session 2 students were asked to write down any 3 stress management techniques they use in their day to day life, after which the speaker elaborated on what actually is stress, the types, how it affects one’s body and further explained various stress management & coping techniques. 

●    The next session after lunch began by the trainer introducing the concept of Emotional Intelligence. The positive and negative emotions, empathy, importance of Emotional Intelligence & its components were discussed with examples.

●    Students were made to understand the difference between Stress & Depression. They were also taught about the signs and symptoms, i.e., how to identify a person having depression.

●    The last session was about 4 dimensions of life, namely

1.   Physical quotient

2.   Emotional quotient

3.   Intellectual quotient

4.   Spiritual quotient

●    The program ended with a Dance Therapy session to promote emotional, social, cognitive and physical integration of the students and the students took part actively and had fun.

●    By the end of the program students came up telling they will implement things taught in this session, most of them said they were able to overcome their fear and speak confidently and boldly.