Team EVOLVE - Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts & Science (KCLAS)

OVERVIEW OF ‘EVOLVE’

EVOLVE, KCLAS Webinar Series, an initiative by the student Leadership Council of Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science has stretched out in flying colours and has had a commendable journey of 72 exclusive sessions and 17+ tie up events with other prominent clubs of KCLAS, since May 1, 2020. We have featured 89+ real world experts as our session holders, offered 89+ hours of skillful learning for 10000+ students from 6+ nations, encompassing India, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Guyana, Singapore, etc.

Also, EVOLVE undertook benchmark initiatives like tie – ups with clubs of KCLAS, to foster club activities and to instill passion for co – curricular and extra – curricular activities as these activities aid to correlate academic skills with the real world context. Featured & creative tie -up webinars from such collaborations facilitated the audience to have better understanding of the artistic skills, scope, opportunities to shine when passion is converted to passion and much more.

From this remarkable journey of webinars, EVOLVE grew vertically and stretched out to panel discussion by introducing panel discussion series, from December 1, 2020 for offering greater insights on important themes of the society. The first panel discussion, themed, “Building self – esteem”, with focus on themes like enhancing self – confidence, dealing with criticisms related to body attributes, body shaming, etc., very essentially pertaining to the lives of youth of the present generation, was in collaboration with ‘Girls Up Coimbatore’ organisation. Girl Up Fembots is one of organisations under the United Nations SDG-5 working for development and welfare of women with 200 core active members and does Fundraising activities, Awareness campaigns, advocacy and support forum, meet and greet, storytelling, webinars and bonding hours and events.

Lately, for the student community to reflect on the year 2020, take learnings and be prepared for 2021, ‘EVOLVE New Year Contest’ was launched and organised between 20.12.2020 and 28.12 2020. The theme of the contest was to reflect upon twenty things that shaped/ moulded/ transformed/ helped to evolve the individual in 2020, which shall be expressed as a piece of writing as poem/essay or as an artwork like doodle / sketching/ painting or even photographs. Thus, EVOLVE progresses in aspirations of bringing in much more innovative and required events even in the virtual phase.

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Instagram and Facebook Handle : evolve_kclas (tinyurl.com/joinusevolvekclas)

Youtube : tinyurl.com/evolveyoutube

OBJECTIVES

EVOLVE was initiated during the initial spread of COVID – ‘19 and lockdowns imposed, with a social objective of installing passion for lifelong learning in the student community despite the unprecedented times, by offering thought provoking webinars with leading experts at zero cost. Thus, exercising life – long learning, helping the student community to develop by offering practical insights in multiple domains, despite the pandemic and helping everyone to stay motivated and positive in the new normal were the core objectives upon which EVOLVE was built upon.

JOURNEY OF EVOLVE – HIGHLIGHTS
Initiation	May 1, 2020 – Session 1
Silver Jubilee	July 21,2020
Golden Jubilee	October 16,2020
Platinum Jubilee	February 19,2021
Average registration count	105
Average participant count	78
Consistent participants	60+
Total count of participants	10000+
Tie – ups	15+ (1 external) Girls Up, Coimbatore – 1 Young Ones – 1 Tamil Mandram, Kumaraguru institutions – 10 Creative writing club, KCLAS -1 Music Club, KCLAS – 1 Dance Club, KCLAS – 1 Community engagement Club, KCLAS – 1 Fine Arts club – 1, etc
Unique initiatives	Panel discussions Contests Ambassadors Exclusive social media handles 10+ student banks Customised reminders Registrants’ engagements E – Book recommendations Collaborations and tie -ups
Prominent speakers	Dr.Ashwin Nithish, CEO, Silver Bazaar Ms. Hemalatha, Assistant Superintendent, Malapuram CA Sarthak Ahuja, BFIA,CS,FCMA,FCA, PGP(ISB) V.J Kalyani, South Indian Women Achiever Awardee Mr.Hari Nishanth, Ranji Cricketer Mr.Ashwin, CEO & MD, i2 Tech Solution Mrs. Swati Jagdish, Sexuality Health Educator, Bond and Beyond Ms.Rashmi Chadha, Founder & CEO, Wovoyage Mr.Arun and Mr.Aravind, Casting directors, Vijay TV Mr.Allen David, Former Mr.TamilNadu, and much more.

KEY STATS AND REACH

EVOLVE has an equal participant base from other institutions and Universities in Coimbatore like its parent institution, Kumaraguru Institutions (KI). KI is one of the top five contributors of participants and thus, students of Kumaraguru Institutions are also one of the largest beneficiaries. Followingly, the amount of impact of EVOLVE is also significant in institutions like PSG, Avinashilingam, etc.

Similarly, considering district wise segmentation, the participant base of EVOLVE from other districts of Tamil Nadu contribute to 70% of total registration and participation. The consistent participants from these districts hail from University of Madras, Jamal Mohammed College, etc.

Further, participants from far and wide from various states of India (like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, etc.) and other nations like Qatar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Guyana, Singapore, Vietnam, etc. also enjoy the learnings from EVOLVE.