Aarohi CoVersity

Tag: unschooling

  • Practical work can teach you much beyond professional skills

    Practical work can teach you much beyond professional skills

    It’s been a month since the cohort has gone off campus for the industry exposure phase. Aparna (13) has been dabbling in different exposures to make the most of her time trying to build professional skills in her interest of ‘Natural Building’. She visited to different natural building centres, institutes to interact with people in…

  • Open your professional choices to a world of possibilities, beyond degrees!

    Open your professional choices to a world of possibilities, beyond degrees!

    Aarohi has a vibrant thriving community that connects with each other beyond the campus on WhatsApp. One parent had a very interesting question to ask the community which opened up so many perspectives to explore. Can open schoolers (especially learners who did not choose to give 10th or 12th exam) get college admissions? Do we…

  • How can Youth assess their interest in a domain?

    How can Youth assess their interest in a domain?

    We say, Live projects are one solid way to test your commitment to any of your interests. In her first CoVersity term, Aparna has chosen ‘art’ and ‘natural building’ as the domains to explore. As part of her project for the campus term, Aparna discussed with her guides to look at various construction ideas. Finally,…

  • 18 areas where youth can start leading their professional journey

    18 areas where youth can start leading their professional journey

    How do I lead myself?This question can be quite daunting and lead to anxiety with the thought that we need to have leadership qualities or a super duper self motivated self, at all times. At CoVersity, we break this down and we lead in many ways. I lead myself by In which areas have you…

  • How Sriya tackled her time prioritisation challenge with a nudge from one of the guides

    I realised I wasn’t allocating enough time on my project. During one of our weekly meetings between guides and cohort, I reflected that my schedule was spread across too many activities and felt I was not doing enough justice to my figma project in which I wanted to go deeper this term. The next day,…

  • How Sriya realised she was standing in her own way

    In a couple of weeks the cohort will have to go for their internships or look for volunteering opportunities. As a run up to the industry connect phase, the cohort is busy building their portfolio which would be a showcase of their skills, accomplishments to prospective clients and employers. They are also constantly looking at…

  • ‘Are you enjoying your struggles?’ a guide asked. David wondered what sort of a question is that!

    David, one of our cohort members, chose the domain of Designing, with carpentry as his focus. For 2 months now, he has been working on a client project. The client’s brief required him to design and build a bookshelf for a cafe.  After considering various possibilities, he finalised coconut shells as his raw material since…

  • #worktolearn can make your learning multi-dimensional, contextual and relevant.

    Srijani wanted to learn all about buttercreams which is the foundation for baking cakes. Rather than merely replicating well known recipes, she designed a project for herself. #worktolearn What was her project? Experiment and also, innovate different variants of buttercreams by tweaking the ingredients, using different brands of ingredients and looking at substitutes. To take her…

  • Everything seems easy in the head until we get into action

    Everything seems easy in the head until we get into action

    Presumably, most of us know adults who have switched their professions over time or are dabbling in multiple domains or side hustles. This is considered acceptable or in some cases, even cool for adults. However, this very phenomenon becomes a source of grave concern when it comes to youth switching their interests. This live focused…

  • I learnt a lot when things didn’t go as per my plan

    I learnt a lot when things didn’t go as per my plan

    We did a live with Srijani, part of the current cohort deep diving in the domain of baking. She spoke about all the intense work she has been doing on a daily basis in her domain – daily workout (similar to fitness but applied to baking), self designed projects, planning & reflecting along with her…