http://fbots.in/camp.html

The camp will be organised in Allahabad.
Duration: 2 weeks

We are also organising an Air Show on Sunday, 23rd May 2010
at Parade Ground, Allahabad.
All flyers who wish to come are invited.

Hey amir, the fee Rs.400 includes the kit too?

yes

Quote from: amir on May 10, 2010, 02:32:20 PM
yes

Then its awesome man!

hi everyone...can u all tell us how we can promote it and get the highest participation..??

Thats simply fantastic Amir! KUDOS!! people like you , VC and others into such activities are really gonna make great impact by attracting younger breed to the hobby - we already have Kiddos like Ankurgr8 and Subbu.

Your program looks reasonable, and a kit for Rs 400 along with the training, I bet it would be the cheapest Aeromodeling class in the world (under $10 !!)... We had to literally beg the local NCC instructor to train three of us for a fee of Rs 100/person/month plus Balsa extra, way back in early 1990s!!

It would be great if people offer regular Aeromodling classes to young kids and grownups.

well i m also thr for gathering students interest
but the problem is very few people seem to be interested
main reasons-
1.no time to  study
2.parents not interested/not giving permission
3.not interested in such activities

i m giving my lvl best to get as many people i can schools,coachings,wherever i can....bt still the prob continues

so we need ur assistance to attact and get the highest participation we can...

-Ankur

You should approach schools directly through proper channels, like talking to the teacher in charge of activities, or the principal.  Take some good marketing material with you, like photos from past sessions, and even some simple models.

Quote from: ankur on May 11, 2010, 07:02:58 PM
well i m also thr for gathering students interest
but the problem is very few people seem to be interested
main reasons-
-Ankur

Thats very usual with Indian living standards... you have to toil all your life to earn bread and butter. Out of 300+ friends I have, I just have 1 friend who has exactly intersecting hobby of mine - Electronics, Ham, Aero, and Photography! and only 2 in aero modeling before I joined online R/C and made few more in R/C

Keep the good work... even if you get 2-3 people a year, its gonna make a difference... In a country where the term 'Hobby' translate only to "Watching movies, reading, travelling, sining etc" in 200+ CVs I gone thru, Aeromodling as a Hobby is a hard thing to gulp!

To add to Anwar, if movies like  3-Idiots could not awake parents/schools, God alone could save our country!

@anwar bhaiya-well i tried to approach my class teacher and some other teachers  but they all say they cant do any announcement untill they get a letter from the office..so now its on amir bhaiya to approach thr and carry out the tasks
i have tried to spread the news but have been only got abt 5-7 people confirmed....reasons i have already told

@ujjwal bhaiya-lets see what we can do
i will get abt 20 people but i will try to increase the count
and most people are thr for robotics and not aeromodelling..lets see if amir bhaiya can throw in some concepts of aeromodelling to attract them thr

And BTW i m also here because of amir bhaiya

Ankur

Thank you all for your suggestions:
the problem is, most schools are closed now. only two are still open. gonna talk with them in 1-2 days time..

Quote from: amir on May 11, 2010, 11:51:26 PM
Thank you all for your suggestions:
the problem is, most schools are closed now. only two are still open. gonna talk with them in 1-2 days time..

hey amir,
sugesttion is to demostrate the airshow in the school premises itself and if possible, and keep your target audience limited to students 9th to 12th students.
you know a live event will all what ppl need to get interested in this charismatic hobby...
cheers

amir bhaiya is organizing yet another workshop in a girls school itself from today
wish him luck for it...

Thanks Ankur for the post.
Our workshop in Girls High School started today.
It was a great hit, as we got 48 registrations from single school, and all girls..
Its really unbelievable

This is 3 days,
Today we started them with brief introduction to aeromodelling, and making chuck glider..

Will post pics and videos soon.

Teaching aeromodelling to a girls only class        Is it armageddon yet ?

One girl can bring 10 aeromodellers  
If i say that was my aim behind the workshop ?

Ya we teach boys too..  
Their workshop is from 24th.

But girls here seems much more enthusiastic that any other workshop i have conducted..
Most of them know about balsa wood..
Even class 6th girls were familiar with basic flight science..

This was what i always wanted to see...
Lets see.. Today their chuck gliders will be completed...
hoping they enjoy their flying too..

Quote from: amir on May 19, 2010, 06:46:42 AM
One girl can bring 10 aeromodellers 

The worshop ends on 20th,
Here are some pics:

One more.