Earthian awards sustainability education programme from Wipro Foundation.
Earthian awards programme is conducted annually. The programme is launched in the end of April every year and culminates in the month of February of the following year with the awards ceremony in Bangalore.
“Wipro earthian has completed a landmark 14 years in the space of Sustainability Education. It is one of India’s largest programs of its kind for schools and colleges and is designed to act as a catalyst for fostering excellence in sustainability thinking and action. This program is a natural intersection of Wipro’s commitment to the key domains of education and ecology”.
Objective
Earthian programme for schools is an activity-based exploration of environment within and around the school by its students to understand what sustainability. The programme has resource material for schools to carry out activities on three themes of Water, Biodiversity and Solid waste.
Who can participate?
The activities have to be conducted by students in a group of minimum 2 or maximum 5 students. The student groups have to be supervised by a teacher/s. There is no limit on number of student teams a school can form. The student teams can attempt multiple themes or can attempt multiples of same theme with different student teams.
Themes
Water, Biodiversity and Solid waste
Water Kit
Booklet, Board game, Training video, Sample submission.
Biodiversity Kit -
Booklet, 3 Bingo sheets, Story of a fig, Bird migration, Posters – Neem, Giant Milkweed and Singapore cherry, Training video, Sample submission.
Solid Waste Kit
Booklet, Board game, Training video, Sample submission.
National
School
The top 20 submissions chosen by schools from across the country by two juries (Internal and External) win a cash award of INR.50,000/-.
Students, Teacher teams
The top 20 schools receive awards from Wipro Ltd. Chairman Mr. Rishad Premji at a gala awards ceremony at Bangalore (All expenses paid). Certificates, Goody bags and Plaque for school.
State (regional)
The school team with best submission for each theme gets to win a cash prize of INR.10,000/-. Sometimes the award money is distributed between teams with multiple teams with similar evaluation.
Appreciation
School teams whose submissions score more than 70% in evaluation are given appreciation certificates.
Participation
School teams whose submissions score more less than 70% in evaluation are given participation certificates.