Through careful observation of students hailing from rural communities, we found that in order to help them overcome their fear we will need to make the English language as accessible to them as possible by relating it to activities that they like to engage in, like watching movies, etc

TQI has taken its flagship program, Express to form a bridge for the students to overcome their communication barrier. By adapting innovative methods we are helping the students to overcome stage fear and express their thoughts openly.

The idea of Express program is to be open to all sorts of people irrespective of whether they are in school, college or working. Initially the program was conducted to help the underprivileged students at colleges. As time progressed, the program has spread its wings across corporate, schools and colleges through the country.

In order to give a head-start to the Ullas students, we have created a unique self-enrichment module called SUMMIT. The Summit program comprises of a personality development module conducted during weekends. The Summit Program is graded as Level 1 to Level 4, with Level 1 beginning for Class 9th and finishing with Level 4 for Class 12th.

Each Ullas student attends their respective Summit module that comprises of 5 sessions of Personality development classes that comes to a total of 15 hours, meaning 3 hours per session.

The personality development classes are conducted based on specially crafted lesson plans that encompass Communication skills, confidence-building, memory skills, active team work, public speaking and leadership skills.

Talent Quest for India has been working with the ullas trust in a predesigned module to help the students of the government school students to develop a “Can do” spirit and explore the vastness of acquiring wisdom. The summit programs are designed in a cycle of four years from class IX-XII, termed level I-IV. Each Level is subdivided into V summits which are conducted by the TQI volunteers at various districts of Tamil Nadu. These summits are designed with module aids designed by the Ullas team. It has been TQI’s endeavor to guide the school’s students for the long term. Hence, to keep it sustainable we not only focus on the current batch of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th students, but rather engage the new students who enter 9th standard.

This festival is celebrated in the 1st week of October every year since 2014. The fundamental reason for which TQI celebrates DaanUtsavis for all our team members to go back to their roots in their villages and connect with their family and friends to conduct any social activity. This festival is celebrated on a large scale in about 22 districts. The festival is approached in a highly focused manner with a proper organization structure yet retaining the core “one-family values” of TQI. Events range from simple tree plantation to massive clean up to huge talent appreciation and educational workshops. The most unique feature of the way we celebrate it is that many of volunteers’ family are actively involved in celebrating the festival with us. The key highlight is that the entire festival in all of the districts is managed entirely by the youth and never has there been a complaint from any of the authorities, rather they actively endorse and support our activities.>

The journey of TQI celebrating Daan-Utsav started in 2014 when we reached around 8 districts, 21 districts in 2015. In 2016, we were happy to celebrate in 20 districts in 2 states and by 2017, we celebrated in 30 districts in 4 states including Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Mysuru.

TQI has partnered with the CSR initiative KPIT Technologies, Bangalore to take their flagship program Chhote Scientists to government schools. 

The goal of Chhote Scientists program is to bring science from fancy world to reality. It is achieved by making the kids do hands-on science experiments to observe and understand the science around them. The experiments are made out of materials that are found and used in day to day life, such as plastic cups, straws, bottles, glasses etc., which gives rebirth to used materials in the name of recycling.

The program facilitates the students of class 7, 8 and 9 and provides them an opportunity to understand science through common sense. It helps them to take theories in their minds with logical reasoning than taking them as mere faith. By constantly questioning their understanding of a concept, TQI help them in strengthening their depth in the concept and enhancing their thinking capability.

Currently TQI is implementing Chhote scientists at schools in and around Mysuru through our volunteers from different neighborhood colleges.

We started OneYearOneCause to give adequate attention to one social cause for one year. We want to sensitize people about one cause by discussing and conducting events for the whole year. Our team will conduct awareness programs about that cause in the colleges, schools and communities.

2017: Water Conservation, 2018: Thank our Heroes Farmers, 2019: No Food Waster
2020: Gardening

Currently TQI is implementing Chhote scientists at schools in and around Mysuru through our volunteers from different neighborhood colleges.

Calendar events are special occasions that engages our different stakeholders like our volunteers, their families and our beneficiaries, in social awareness through community celebration as a onetime intervention.
Events include but not restricted to: Teachers day, Environment Week, National Farmers day, Abdul Kalam Birthday, May Day, Women’s Day, Sports Day were celebrated across districts in school, colleges and communities. We also provide volunteer support to the local NGOs to carry out their activities.

A campaign motivating people to go back to their alma mater (School), thanking their teachers and facilitating our Express program and distributing “Career Chart” for the 10th and 12th Std Students.

This workshop is designed to motivate college students to take responsibility for the challenges in the nation and to orient their career towards a job provider than a job seeker. We facilitated this workshop in 10 colleges reaching 1000+ students.