Between talking about how kids have moved me with their little actions and how VITeach has given me a sense of purpose over the years, I have often forgotten to talk about all the fun we had. Every event we had was a celebration because of the kids. With that said, however, there is also a sense of responsibility attached to our activities. We had to make sure that at the end of the day, the kids had completed their learning objectives; for that was our primary objective.
So, we thought that we needed an event that would be mostly just pure, unadulterated fun, without much riding on it; which would double down as a team-building experience. I think we were thinking of a few things, I don’t entirely remember. This was when, somehow, this very weird idea of an event formed in my head, which I still like to call “the kidnapping event”, despite the second edition of it being named Kidtopia by those who took office after us. The idea was to kidnap, I mean, babysit children of faculty members for a day.
This event, it managed to do a lot more things than we thought it would, initially. To start with, this was the perfect PR event – a bunch of kids playing on the campus is bound to catch people’s attention.
The faculty members were talking about the event and the club, and that benefited us in a lot of ways, like with the collaborations it resulted in. These were still secondary, though.
The event was meant for us to have fun. And we did have a lot of fun. The day was a blur and all I remember is being exhausted at the end of the day running behind those kids!
But the very best part, it wasn’t any of this. We received an email the next day from one of the faculty members about how his son thoroughly enjoyed the event and couldn’t stop talking about the day. We were continually asked when the event would happen again, and there was no more validation that we could ask for. I mean, you can count on VITeach to make every small event or activity heartwarming, and this was the perfect example of that.
Between talking about how kids have moved me with their little actions and how VITeach has given me a sense of purpose over the years, I have often forgotten to talk about all the fun we had. Every event we had was a celebration because of the kids. With that said, however, there is also a sense of responsibility attached to our activities. We had to make sure that at the end of the day, the kids had completed their learning objectives; for that was our primary objective.
So, we thought that we needed an event that would be mostly just pure, unadulterated fun, without much riding on it; which would double down as a team-building experience. I think we were thinking of a few things, I don’t entirely remember. This was when, somehow, this very weird idea of an event formed in my head, which I still like to call “the kidnapping event”, despite the second edition of it being named Kidtopia by those who took office after us. The idea was to kidnap, I mean, babysit children of faculty members for a day.
This event, it managed to do a lot more things than we thought it would, initially. To start with, this was the perfect PR event – a bunch of kids playing on the campus is bound to catch people’s attention.
The faculty members were talking about the event and the club, and that benefited us in a lot of ways, like with the collaborations it resulted in. These were still secondary, though.
The event was meant for us to have fun. And we did have a lot of fun. The day was a blur and all I remember is being exhausted at the end of the day running behind those kids!
But the very best part, it wasn’t any of this. We received an email the next day from one of the faculty members about how his son thoroughly enjoyed the event and couldn’t stop talking about the day. We were continually asked when the event would happen again, and there was no more validation that we could ask for. I mean, you can count on VITeach to make every small event or activity heartwarming, and this was the perfect example of that.