It's Us - September 2013
-
Upload
leo-club-of-university-of-moratuwa -
Category
Documents
-
view
220 -
download
0
Transcript of It's Us - September 2013
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
1/11
ITS USTHE OFFICIAL NEWS LETTER
LEO CLUB OF UNIVE RSIT Y OF MORATUWA
VOLUME 10 ISSUE 03 SEPTEMBER 2013
PAGE PAGE
PAGE PAGE
PAGE
01
02
03 07
0604
PAGESEA, SAND,
ROBOTICS WORKSHOP2013
LIGHT A CANDLE TO
LIGHT THE WORLD
GET TO KNOW &PUT A FULL STOP
STOP
MAHESH ABEYWICKRAMAMEMORIAL CHAMPIONSHIP
AIDS
SHORE
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
2/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
The number of AIDS patients have increased
resent past. To prevent this, better informing
and attitudinal change is needed and also there
is negligence and cornering for people who
have AIDS. That is because people do not have
the knowledge, how this disease spreading,
how to prevent it and so on.
To protect people from AIDS by education, the
Leo club of university of Moratuwa organized
an AIDS awareness programme in Electronic
department auditorium. It was held on 5th ofSeptember at 11.15 a.m. onwards.
A doctor from Kalubowila hospital conducted a
lecture and pointed out fundamental ways to
cure AIDS such as changing the attitude, protec-
tion by education, financial security and safe
sex. It was a good project conducted with dif-
ferent theme.
It is a great pleasure to address you in the third
edition of the ITS US as the newly appointed Vice
President. At the beginning it was really a challenging
task for me to take the vice presidency of a well reputed
club in Sri Lanka. That is a huge opportunity for my life
and it is one of the great milestones in my life. I learnt
so many good things from the Leoistic vision. Everything
has a passion and pattern to happen. I got Lots of experi-
ences from the Leo vision.
Planning & conducting various kinds of projects
while giving our maximum contribution to 306 A2 fam-
ily as well as to the multiple was not really an easy task.
Meanwhile as university students we have to balance
our academic lives with all the extra-curricular activities.
All the time I have to help to my clubs president. The
president guides us to the correct direction every time.
In my point of view I will briefly describe about what is
Leoism and definition of a Leo club.Leoism
Leoism is a movement to generate good qualities
among the youths and to make them responsive to good
social needs so that they can provide the nation with
perfect leadership.
Leos have put on records many instances of dedi-
catory services for the cause of distressed humanity. It
is believed and hoped that the Leos will uphold their
tradition of services through fellowship and friendship.
Leos are an institution of hope to the helpless and willbe round the clock.
Definition of Leo Club
Leo Club is an official program of the interna-
tional association of Lions club to promote and encour-
age service activities among the youths of the commu-
nity, to serve others in the community and around the
world that will develop leadership quality. Every Leo club
formed must be sponsored by Lions club.
I request from you all to share this newsletter
among your friends and spread the Leoism all over thecountry. From that we can help to create this country a
better place.
Thank you.
STOP AIDSAIDS AWARENESS PROGRAMME
Leo ShehanMadusankaVice President
Department of Computer Science &
Engineering
University of Moratuwa
PAGE - 01
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
3/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
Debating is a
way of arise
our voices
with argu-
ments in front
of others in
an organized
manner. So as a club UoM Leos decided to encour-
age debating talent of school children by organizing
such a tournament.
The main objective of this project was memorizing
Leo Mahesh Abeywickrama, who was the president
of the UoM Leo club in 2004/2005 leoistic year. He
was a beloved brother and an undergraduate of
University of Moratuwa but with an unexpected man-ner he has passed
away. Encourage
school children for
debating, encour-
age their parents
to motivate their
children on debat-
ing, Celebrating
Literacy month,
improving theeducational level
with the theme
of Together for
Education were
other objectives.
This was a well
organized, big proj-
ect held on 28th September 2013. The chief guest
for the morning session was Leo district president
for district 306A2 Leo Kaneel Maddumage. A popu-lar media icon, Mr. Chandana Sooriyabandara was
invited as the chief guest for the final session and the
presentation ceremony. Mr. Sooriyabandara encour-
aged and congratulated teams and also appreciated
the work done by the Leo Club of UoM. Mr. Sumith
Basnayaka, Producer of the The Debater island
wide debate tournament organized by Sirasa TV also
arrived to glamour the occasion.
Debating teams of twelve schools has participated
for the competition and among them Panadura
Sumangala boys school and Mathugama C.W.W.
Kannangara College won the chance to the final
round. Final judge panel consisted of 5 distinguished
people including Mr.Sooriyabandara, the chief
guest, Leo Isuru Senadheera, the IPDP of Leo dis-
trict 306A2, Leo Chaturanga Gunasekara, IPCP ofLeo Club of UoM, Mr. Hasitha Sandeepa, a for-
mer school debate team captain and Mr.Sajeewan
Basuru, who is also a former school debate team
captain.
After a huge battle of voices between the debat-
ers, Panadura Sumangala College emerged as the
winners of Mahesh Abeywickrama Championship.
Sasindu Tharaka who was from Panadura Sumangala
boys school has won the prize for the best debater.
CIMA Sri Lanka and Asian Alliance PLC sponsored
and TV Derana gave the media support. Many Leos
and Lions participated for the event and it was
ended up with a great success.
PAGE - 02
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
4/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
With the purpose of guiding Dhamma school children
how to study effectively, how to improve their talents
and to shape up their future through their hidden
and never shown talents a project was conducted inSri Wijayarama temple, Weligama. The date was 8th
September from 8.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
The students in the Dhammaschool were getting ready
to face a knowledge competition at zonal level and the
project was beneficial for facing those exams too. A
pre-examination was also held by UoM Leos and prizes
were given to winners. The function was successful with
the participation of more than 200 students and UoM
The date was 15th September and the place
was Mount Lavinia beach. A beach cleaning
programme was conducted by UoM Leos at
8.00 a.m. onwards with the purposes of Clean the sea area
Inform to people and explain about
value of nature.
Working with the members very coop-
eratively as a family.
Enhancing the inter-relationship
between the other LEO clubs.
This project was done with the participation
of Program officers of National post-consum-
er plastic waste management project central
environment authority and the Leo club of
Mathugama. UoM Leos have cleaned the beachalong 4-5 kms, while collecting garbage, to
bags. Those garbage bags were handed over to
the waste cleaning centre of the Mount Lavinia.
Leaflets were distributed among public to make
aware them not to put garbage to the sea. The
Immediate Past District President - Leo Isuru
Senadheera also joined to this environmen-
tal friendly programme and it was successful
though there was a rainy weather.
SEA, SAND, SHOREKAKULU SITHATA SADAHAMA MOVE TO SAVEDHAMMA SCHOOL PROJECT
PAGE - 03
Leos. Special thanks should go to the Chief Monk of the
temple,teachers and students.
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
5/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
ROBOTICS WORKSHOP 2013
Robotics.. It is afield that is technically
improving and getting the popularity. With the
purpose of enhancing the theoretical and most
importantly the practical knowledge of thestudents on a field that would be highly valu-
able in the future and motivate the students
to make their future career in such a field, a
robotics workshop was carried out for school
children from Galle and Matara districts.UoM
Leos had the hope that it would be helpful to
the students who are intended to participate
for the robotics competition which would be
held in December.
The workshop was conducted by some talented and experienced undergraduates from the Departmentof electronics and telecommunication of university of Moratuwa and the chief guest was Dr. Nirod N.
Samarawickrama who is the senior training director of IJSE Galle. This was held on 20th September in the
auditorium of Institute of Java and Software engineering, Galle.
Electronic, programming and mechanical parts
were covered not only by lectures but also with practical ses-
sions. With the presence of 60 school children the event was
very much successful. As engineering students, UoM Leos
were able to increase the curiosity about new technologies
in future generation and do a service with their engineering
knowledge.
PAGE - 04
Cover Page
Mahesh Abeywickrama MemorialDebate Competition 2013
Cast : Leo wasantha Kumara
Photograph : Leo Pramodh
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
6/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
ARE YOU QUALIFIED?BY JAYANI SUDUSINGHE
If you see me for the first time, how would you see me?
It will depend on the situation as people say first impression is the last impression. In other words you will
simply judge people.
But are you qualified? to judge others.Why do we judge people? We like to label others. We like to put them into boxes. Judging makes us feel
safe and comfortable because we have defined a person. So we can easily act according to that definition.
You see a boy and think hes lame. But he has to work every night to take care of his mom and dad. You call
a girl fat. She has a disease and shes starving herself. Theres a friend of yours whos smiling all the day
along helping each and everyone of you. But he is going through hardships which you can never imagine of.
Did you know any of these back stories? No. You just saw and judged.
Next time when you see a different person, who doesnt fit within your framework, please, dont label him.
Dont put him into that box of yours. If you really feel that you want to know that person, try to walk in his
or her shoes along the same paths they travel. Then you will know how to accept him or her.
Then only, you are qualified.Do we stop only by judging others? No. We judge ourselves as well.
When you get a brilliant idea, you think how you can achieve it, how you enjoy that glorious moment of
achievement. But when you are about to put it into action, theres this feeling or scream from the depth of
your mind, are you sure? Will this work?You remember all those failures where you fell on your face.
You have begun it. You are judging yourself.
Are you qualified? No.
When you were a child, if you wanted to do something, you simply did it. You didnt judge yourself. If you
wanted to climb a tree, you climbed it. You werent afraid that you would fall and get hurt. You simply made
it.
But now, you are afraid of falling and getting hurt, even before you climb the tree.
Judgement grows, as we grow. But we should watch our judging minds.
Dont judge, be curious and open.
Be creative and believe. Then you are qualified.
THE PHOTO STORY
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
PAGE - 05
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
7/11
LIGHT A CANDLE TO LIGHT THE WORLD
Although the students in rural schools are hav-
ing the talent and the resources, they are weak
in mathematics due to the lack of their interesttowards the subject. To make these students
interested in the subject and arouse their curiosity
to learn the subject keenly a project was organized
by the Leo club of university of Moratuwa on 23rd
of September in Deiyandara National School.
With the idea of Failing to plan is planning to fail first there was a lecture on how to plan the life. Therelation between mathematics and the nature is shown and mathematics was taught using fun games. This
aroused the curiosity of the students and they were motivated to learn mathematics.Practical mathemati-
cal question papers were provided and students were inspired for learning mathematics further to enter an
engineering faculty.
The principal and the teachers gave the maximum support to do this and about 250 students have partici-
pated. With the presence of about 15 Leos and prospects the project was successful.
PAGE - 06
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
8/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
The second step of the sending e-mail description about a prevailing, avoidable disease in Sri Lanka in the
objective of informing people was done on 25th as usual. This time it was lung cancer which is a prevail-
ing & avoidable disease. In this project, we sent an email to over 500 lions & over 300 leos in Sri Lanka.It is better to prevent disease before it spreads. So better to have a knowledge about common health
problem in Sri Lanka and get rid of them.
GET TO KNOW & PUT A FULL STOP
PAGE - 07
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
9/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
GO AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE; WHEN YOU GET THERE, YOULL BE ABLE TO SEE FURTHER.
LEO QUOTE
LETS FLY TOGETHERSTEP 3
In todays global world, English is very essential that is most common language spoken everywhere.
Therefore the Leo club of university of Moratuwa has decided to arrange a special workshop, an ice breakingsession to improve speaking ability of Leos and prospects after monthly club meeting.
With purposes of
Developing speaking skill in front of an audience
To facilitate set of undergraduates to discover speaking skills they already have and skills that need some
attention
improving their skills in Speaking English
This programme was held on 30th of September at 7pm onwards at the ENTC Auditorium in the University
and achieved a great success.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
PAGE - 08
WORLD CHILDRENS DAY PROGRAMME- 01ST OCTOBER
GET TO KNOW AND PUT A FULLSTOP- MOUTH CANCER AWARENESS PROGRAMME 25TH OCTOBER
T SHIRT SELLING AND FUND RAISING PROGRAMME
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
10/11ITS US | VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 03 | SEPTEMBER 2013
SNAPS OF THE MONTHSWEET MEMORIES
PAGE - 09
-
8/13/2019 It's Us - September 2013
11/11