The 19th Ullas Day – ‘Diary of Dreams’ Workshop was celebrated with over 1,800 people gathering at the Music Academy, Chennai. About 1,263 Class 9 students were from selected as ‘Ullas Young Achievers’ in 2016 from 210 Govt. and Corporation schools.
Every year I conduct workshop with these students and learn from the workshop. During the workshop, we request every student to pen down their dreams in special diary and share with others. As a sample, I ask few students to announce their dreams in public.
My observations of today’s questions from the next generation:
1. Among all the dreams, there was an explicit ‘purpose’ of choosing a dream. The purpose was like helping in removing poverty, helping the poor, helping in abolishing corruption, teaching, breaking into scientific or space technologies.
2. Out of the 50 students who shared their dreams, only 6 students wanted to become Engineers or Doctors.
3. The new dreams were around IAS, Bankers, Agriculturist, Scientist, Astronaut, Sportsperson and even Politician.
4. I was surprised by the courage of three dreams: One young achiever mentioned becoming the President of India and the second young achiever dreamt on becoming a Prime Minister of the country.
Post the event, all friends of Ullas – close to 100 people from Virtusa Polaris and Intellect – shared few touching stories.
To me every year, the Ullas Annual Day converts into a very heavy evening filled with emotions. During these reflections I find myself among those 1,263 young achievers as a 13-year-old Arun, who didn’t have any dreams at that age.
About 1,263 Ullas Young Achievers from 210 govt and corporation schools were selected as Ullas Young Achievers
