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Brainstorm Session with NCHD Sindh Mar6, 2015 by Pervaiz Lodhie

Brainstorm Session with NCHD Sindh Mar6, 2015 at Karachi University

Brainstorming Session

1. Challenges for universal primary education in Pakistan.

2. Role of NCHD and PHDF to increase the literacy rate.

3. Success and Failure of Plan already implemented.

4. Reasoning for High Drop out of students.

5. Improvement of Infrastructure needed for improving literacy rate.

6. How to incorporate technology for basic education?

7. Capacity building and teachers training programs and etc.

Participants: Mr.Pervaiz Lodhie Member PHDF, Madam Humaira Hashmi Director Operations NCHD Sindh, Mr.Anees Ur Rehman Chairman Fund Raising Committee Rotery Club,Dr. Iqbal Muhammad Choudry Director HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry Karachi University.Mr.Abdul Wajid Shaikh DGM Karachi and Jamshoro, Mr.Daim Janwri DGM Thatta, Mr.Muneer Memon DGM Badin, Mr.Pir Niaz Jan DGM TM Khan, Dr Anwar Rajar DGM Matiari, Mr.Riaz Ahmed Aagro DGM Tando Allahyar, Mr.Sher Muhammad Mangrio ADGM Umer Kot,Mr.Abdul Fatah Moro DGM SBA&N.Feroz,Mr.Ayaz Shaikh DGM Larkana,Mr.Rizawan Memon ADGM Shikarpur, Mr.Javed Mangi ADGM Sukkur,Miss.Qamar u Nisa ADGM Ghotiki,Mr.Ali Madad Bozdar ADGM Jacab abad, Mr.Sajjad Ali Memon PCE, Mr.Hamza Lashari PCL,Miss.Zeesha Khuwaja Provincial Manager.

Madam Humaira Hashmi ( Director Operations NCHD Sindh ) provided detailed presentation about NCHD Programs i.e. UPE, Literacy, BBSYDP Projects and also about MALALA and OWN School initiatives. It also includes the detailed briefing of NCHD’s national and provincial achievements. The achievements and efforts were widely appreciated by the Participants.

Dr. Iqbal Muhammad Choudry Director HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry Karachi University highlighted the importance of education and appreciated the role of NCHD in bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy execution to enhance Literacy rate and Universal Primary Education (UPE) with a view to fulfilling Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He further ensured his volunteer support in teachers’ training and development for the provision of intellectual volunteers for the training of teachers all across the board. He further said that socio-economic development of Brazil, South Korea and Malaysia is largely attributed to effective education systems. In addition to that he urged government to increase budget allocation for the education sector.

Anees Ur Rehman Chairman Fund Raising Committee Rotery Club explained the role of private sector for enhancement of education. He said that Rotery club is already working for improvements in education. He affirmed his support to NCHD and also ensured that they would also undertake filed visits in collaboration with NCHD aiming at enhancement of School initiatives.

Pervaiz Lodhie Member PHDF provided detailed information regarding background of PHDF its working style and the current role. He also explained the collaboration of PHDF with NCHD & Govt of Pakistan. He also conducted interactive session with the participants about the models of UPE and Literacy. He also discussed about the use of technology to improve the education and teacher’s training.

All DGMs shared the achievements of their respective districts in the UPE and Literacy and also provided feedback to further improve the execution of strategies at the district level.

Prevez Lodhi sb appreciated the work, efforts and achievement of NCHD and focused on proper showcasing of NCHD work to share with the national and international donor community to attract them to support education through NCHD. He suggested all DGMs of NCHD to share success story reports & documentaries of schools/ literacy centers on social groups.

He further shared that his meeting with Baligh ur Rehman (Minister for Professional Education and Technical Training) has been fixed in which he will discuss about NCHD.

Christopher L. Barrett -- “Massively Interactive Systems: Thinking and Deciding in the Age of Big Data" by Jackie Kazil

Christopher L. Barrett, Executive Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute/Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Dr. Barrett’s talk entitled “Massively Interactive Systems: Thinking and Deciding in the Age of Big Data"

Abstract: This talk discusses advanced computationally assisted reasoning about large interaction-dominated systems. Current questions in science, from the biochemical foundations of life to the scale of the world economy, involve details of huge numbers and levels of intricate interactions. Subtle indirect causal connections and vastly extended definitions of system boundaries dominate the immediate future of scientific research. Beyond sheer numbers of details and interactions, the systems are variously layered and structured in ways perhaps best described as networks. Interactions include, and often co-create, these morphological and dynamical features, which can interact in their own right. Such “massively interacting” systems are characterized by, among other things, large amounts of data and branching behaviors. Although the amount of associated data is large, the systems do not even begin to explore their entire phase spaces. Their study is characterized by advanced computational methods. Major methodological revisions seem to be indicated.

Heretofore unavailable and rapidly growing basic source data and increasingly powerful computing resources drive complex system science toward unprecedented detail and scale. There is no obvious reason for this direction in science to change. The cost of acquiring data has historically dominated scientific costs and shaped the research environment in terms of approaches and even questions. In the several years, as the costs of social data, biological data and physical data have plummeted on a per-unit basis and as the volume of data is growing exponentially, the cost drivers for scientific research have clearly shifted from data generation to storage and analytical computation-based methods. The research environment is rapidly being reshaped by this change and, in particular, the social and bio–sciences are revolutionized by it. Moreover, the study of socially– and biologically–coupled systems (e.g., societal infrastructures and infectious disease public health policy analysis) is in flux as computation-based methods begin to greatly expand the scope of traditional problems in revolutionary ways.

How does this situation serve to guide the development of “information portal technology” for complex system science and for decision support? An example of an approach to detailed computational analysis of social and behavioral interaction with physical and infrastructure effects in the immediate aftermath of a devastating disaster will be described in this context.

No science, no beer! Some of the Swarthmore group telling our leaders to use fact-based reasoning. #marchforscience #swatscimarch by Formicae

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motion by vaniclarte8602

Vanicee Lartelier

Mr. Landerer

Project 3

Motion

Motion is one of the most important things to learn on how to capture. The reasoning for this is that all over the place things are moving, a couple of examples would be the ocean, a football game, a grassland, the park, the city, and so on. When wanting to take a picture of something, you must know certain things just in case there are moving objects around what you want to capture, or maybe you want to capture a moving object.

On my project I choose three images that have meaning to me and reasoning for my capturing of the image, but first I am going to talk about all my subjects. My first subject of images was for stop motion. I used my dad for an example of him jogging towards the camera, with the sun in the back of me. These images qualified for stop motion because they show me capturing his movement perfectly, and no blurry parts showing. I choose to capture my dad running towards me because it was in an area with great lighting.

My second subject that I had was blurry motion. This was quite easy to shoot depending on how high, or low your shutter speed was. I used my friend Hailey as my example because we were hanging out that day. In those images, you can see she is waving her arm side by side with a great speed. These qualify for blurry motion as you can see the parts that are moving, and the ones that are not. My connection to this photo is how behind the scenes we both are having fun taking these photos because you can see her laughing in the background.

My third subject was panning, which was actually pretty hard for me t to get, and frustrating because they wouldn’t come out right, and I had to re do panning multiple times. For this panning I once again choose my dad. I made him jump in mid air for these images. You can see I captured his every movement, and got his jump in the air. The sunlight was just going down, but I definitely got the image I wanted after all the stress I went through trying to get it. My connection towards those photos are how I was in a rush and needed panning.

Last but not least, my fourth subject was once again on panning, but was a good one this time. In my images I captured my friend Hailey jumping off of a bench as high as she can to give a great panning. I once again followed her every move with the camera, until I was satisfied with the moment of her jump. My connection to these photos were that it was on the benches that my old friends, and I used to go to after school during middle school, and eat snacks

This project was hard at first because I had no idea how to capture motion, but then I got the hang of it, and got great photos for my motion project. It is very good to know these things when learning photography, and can make it a lot easier for everyone. This was a great experience for me, and will definitely help me out for future projects.