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SmartCamp

The smartcamp Project, a collaborative effort between Sai’s Angel Foundation (SAF) and Transpek Industry Ltd, aims to revolutionize education and enhance learning outcomes, particularly in Mathematics, Gujarati, and English subjects, alongside Value Education, General Knowledge, and Innovative Learning.

The program’s focus extends to primary education levels, with the smartcamp initiative tailored to strengthening the foundational knowledge of students in Mathematics, English, and Gujarati. Specifically targeted at 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students from Maa Bharti Primary School and Lalji Maharaj Primary School (Phase -1) and Maa Bharti Primary school and Dr. Hedgewar Primary school (Phase -2) in Vadodara city, the program seeks to bridge educational gaps and elevate learning standards.

To assess students’ current proficiency levels, a baseline test was conducted, covering Math concepts up to the 5th standard. Based on their performance, students were categorized into three groups:

 

    1. Green Students: Above-average performers who exhibit strong aptitude and understanding in the subjects.
    2. Yellow Students: Average performers who achieve satisfactory marks but may benefit from additional support and reinforcement.
    3. Blue Group Students: Below-average performers with significantly lower scores, indicating areas of weakness and requiring focused intervention and remedial support.

 

Goals And Objectives

Main objectives of the  smartcamp Program are:

 

    • Raise the academic levels of the students in the target schools by a significant percentage.
      • The SmartCamp will increase the student’s capacity in following ways:-
      • 75% students will learn fundamentals of Maths concepts, majority of students will score above 75% of marks
      • 80% students will learn Gujarati literacy
      • 50-75% students will be able to do basic English writing and reading.
      • Improve other parameters such as attendance, awareness and practice of values and general personal hygiene.
      • Teach Values and General Knowledge through stories and discussions.

    Intervention

    • Training of teachers
    • Daily two hours of teaching in both the schools in phase 1 and only one hour of teaching in second phase
    • Daily General knowledge awareness and story telling activities were conducted
    • Goal wise tests and Month wise tests were undertaken to measure the progress of intervention
    • Rewards were given to students who performed well at the end each phase. Further, those who had highest attendance were given prizes towards the end of each month.

    PROGRESS OF INTERVENTION

    In order to measure the learning of the students in each subject pre and post tests have been taken as under.

    1. In Math’s, pre test taken before phase -1 is compared with the endline test after phase -2. (Maa Bharti )
    2. In English also pre test taken before phase -1 is compared with the endline test after phase -2 (Maa Bharti)
    3. In Blue 1 and Blue 2 majority of goals of phase 1 were completed during phase -1. Hence, Phase -2 had new test before and after. (Maa Bharti)
    4. In Lalji Maharaj Maths, English and Blue group were ended with specific goals towards end of Phase -1 as phase-2 was not permitted.
    5. In Dr. Hedgewar Maths and English for yellow groups had pre & post test as per goals of Phase -2. Blue group had similar comparison of before and after.

    HIGHLIGHTS OF EACH GROUP OF STUDENTS

    • In Math’s, significant improvement is observed and more than 75% students are now able to do basic fundamentals of Maths till Division. ( Green and yellow – Maa Bharti)
    • In English, both in Green and yellow – more than 60% of students have understood the goals taught by SAF team. (Maa Bharti)
    • In Blue-1 – 90% of students can now read and write Gujarati. Similarly, in Blue-2 80% of students have learnt Gujarati reading and writing. In Blue -3, only 45% of students have learnt Gujarati reading.
    • In Maths and English – a good progress observed in Dr. Hedgewar- more than 65% students have learnt basics of Math’s (till multiplication) and English
    • In Gujarati – Blue-1 shows good progress in Math’s and English and in Gujarati 50% students have learnt reading and writing.
    • In Blue -2 students still need more practice in Gujarati and Math’s. As we got only 2 months of time for