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Career Disha Nepal conducted Career Workshop and psychometric Assessment for the six students those recently gave SLC exam, at Forum for the Welfare of Himalayan Children, Bungmati, Lalitpur. Both program led by Career Disha Nepal psychologist, Mr. Hari Krishna Dahal and Joyti Nepal.
The career workshop aimed at creating a mindset for that certain group about the vastness of the job sectors available locally. It was also focused on the tasks, activities as well as the employers involved in various sectors. Similarly, the Interest Based Assessment involved assessment of various sorts like professional orientation, personality traits and educational interest fields.
The session started at 10:00 am last at two hours. The day was filled with experimental games, eye-opening questions as well as a few laughs of astonishment. Similarly, all the children were excited and enthusiasm. The day commenced with group works as well as question sessions and ended with self -reflection from the youth.
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th April 2016, Inge Patsch, the director of CDN, gave a presentation titled ‘Girls in IT’. The program of ICT (information communication Technology) in Skills and Education was held at Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal.
In this interaction program only girls were allowed to participate as the aim of the program was to encourage and promote girls in the IT related fields.
There were five guest lecturers who gave presentation, namely, Inge Patsch from CDN, Binita Shrestha, Sunita Pandey, Damodar Paudel and Hari Prasad Pokhrel , from SICT Nepal.
Mr. Pokhrel was the first presenter who gave insight about the term ICT and what it means. At the same time he addressed how ICT can be empowering and talked in length of its scopes, advantages and disadvantages. He also mentioned that IT is the place where a creative mind can be presented.
Second presenter was Ms. Patsch who came with two main messages, the first being girls and boys are equally talented in the IT field. The second one: NERD (
Now is the right time to start,
Everybody is different,
Reading is not all and
Develop your skills). She also added her stories about how she fought with the society in Austria in order to achieve her goal.
Sunita Pandey, Damodar Paudel and Binita Shrestha discussed about the banner “ICT in Skills and Education”. Miss Shrestha come with idea of Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) also shared her inspirational story of studying IT, here in Nepal. She was the only one girl in a class with 150 boys. Sometimes she felt that IT field was not for girl. But now she graduate in engineering in information and Technology. She was able to win the second award at Presentation Competition conducted by NTA on international girls in ICT day 2015 and also been the title winner of”Empower 2015”as “Young Aspiring Women Leaders”. She was not one
girl who facing such a situation it is still prevalence.
The program was run by Suwash Khadka and Rashmi Tiwari from the SICT Nepal (Society for Information Communication Technology). The program started at 10am and end last at 11:30 am. One and half hour program was filled with insightful lecture from the guest, mind opening question and solution.
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On the 1st of April 2016, Career Disha Nepal held an extensive workshop to 13 young children from grade 8 and 9, at Forum for the Welfare of Himalayan Children, Bungmati, Lalitpur. The introduction workshop aimed at creating a mindset for that certain group about the vastness of the job sectors available locally. It was also focused on the tasks, activities as well as the employers involved in various sectors.
The session started at 11:00 am local time sharp after an hour of preparing flexes, charts and other arrangements. The day was filled with experimental games, eye-opening questions as well as a few laughs of astonishment, similarly, all the children were excited and enthusiasm. The day commenced
with group works as well as question sessions and ended with self -reflection from the youth.
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rd April 2016, Career Disha Nepal successfully conducted psychometric assessment for the 13 children from grade 8 and 9, at Forum for the Welfare of Himalayan Children , Bungmati, Lalitpur. This psychometric assessment (Interest Based Assessment
) was led by our career counselor, Mr. Hari Krishna Dahal. The Interest Based Assessment involved assessment of various sorts like professional orientation, personality traits and educational interest fields.
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