NIIT’s Digital Art Festival showcases creative talent among school
kids
HP CM inaugurates the unique exhibition and felicitates
winners
Shimla, February 20, 2007: In line with their joint effort
of promoting IT and IT assisted education at the school level, the Himachal
Pradesh government and NIIT organised a unique painting competition for children
in the state government schools, who are being taught computers by NIIT. Only
this time the canvas was the software ‘Paint or Powerpoint’ and the paint brush
was the mouse.
The paintings, displayed at the ‘Digital Art Festival 2006’ was inaugurated
by the state CM Raja Virbhadra Singh in the city today. The digitally created
paintings by young- learners can be seen not only as a piece of art but they
bear ample testimony to how computers can be used effectively in children’s
overall skill development.
While felicitating winners of the painting competition who came from 282
Government schools in 12 districts of HP where NIIT has been providing computer
education in partnership with the state under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
initiative, the CM highlighted the importance of computer education for better
career prospects.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. L. Balasubramanian, President, NIIT K12,
said, “We are delighted by the overwhelming response to this initiative.
It is heartening to see such creative application of acquired computer skills by
kids. We at NIIT believe that computer education not only helps raise the
standard of learning in school, it also increases the performance level of
students in other subjects”.
Mr. B.M. Nanta, MD, SSA & Director, Elementary Education, HP, who was
also present on the occasion, highlighted the state government’s effort in
promoting computer education at the school level.
NIIT through its K-12 initiative is reaching 1.4 million kids in over 4000
government and private schools, equipping them with crucial IT skills to prepare
them for tomorrow’s knowledge society. NIIT is working actively to make
computers an intrinsic part of the lives of children and also those of the
socially and economically challenged sections of the society, who may never have
had a chance to integrate with the emerging 21st century environment, to give a
better prospect to their future. NIIT has been providing computer and
computer-aided education in government schools in ten states across the
country.
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program for students seeking careers in the IT segments; Integrated
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technologies for IT professionals and skill up gradation programs for
engineering graduates. NIIT also offers a turnkey IT integration program that
provides computer-based learning in 4000 government and private schools.
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