For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA that will engage eight grade students of the Government High School, Basarakodu in Hagaribommanahalli taluk, Vijayanagara district. Titled Odu Helu Mattu Swataha Bare – read, speak, and write on your own, this 15-month initiative aims to enhance critical thinking and reasoning by engaging students in solving mysteries. Through reading and writing detective stories, they develop vocabulary, comprehension, and narrative skills. Activities rooted in history and ethics encourage deeper dialogue around social studies, and science subjects in exciting ways. The outcome of this project will be publication. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be copies of the publication, and still and video documentation of the entire project. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travelling and living, publication, purchase of books, exhibition and material and stationery.
For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA which will engage seventh grade students of Vinobhabave Government Higher Primary School in Chittavadagi, Hospet taluk, Vijayanagara district with the project titled Naisargika Layadalli Hindustani Sangeetada Mukhakuhi (Confluence of Hindustani Music with Rhythms of Nature), connecting the rhythmic patterns of nature with Hindustani music. Students will be engaged in a series of listening activities to capture and observe various sound patterns in nature in relation to Hindustani musical rhythms. These sound explorations will be linked to their curriculum in environmental science and languages. The outcome of this project will be a performance and a publication. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will include a copy of the publication, still and video documentation of the process and the performance. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, performance, printing, documentation, food, hire of equipment, and materials.
