E-NEWSPAPER FOR CHENNAI KIDS May 13 - May 26, 2012 Free. Direct to desktop For Subscribers only. Contact : [email protected] Connect with us online: facebook.com/yocee.in twitter.com/yoceekids yoceeblog.blogspot.com Fortnightly Electronic edition Website: www.yocee.in This Cool spots Namma fortnight Special area Calendar Column 3 9 10 Hussey launches Cricket Education programme in Chennai By Smruthi S Cricketers? Student Reporter Martin Gleeson briefed the audience about the The Chettinad Vidyashram school programme. “CEP is campus in R. A. Puram saw an first of its kind. We are unusual buzz of activity for a day dur- indeed delighted to ing the summer holidays. It was on have Inside Edge May 3, 2012. Sportainment (P) Ltd. If one thought it was probably the X as our first partner in and XII graders attending Chennai. It is a special classes or the teachers doing structural coaching their exam corrections, then guess system, exclusively again! It was an occasion for the written by Cricket launch of the Cricket Education Australia, for school Programme (CEP) by ‘Namma Aussie- children. It is a com- Chennaiite’, Mike Hussey. prehensive six-year summer camp where they were sequential development program for Dressed in a casual sportswear, with trained by Cricket Australia’s boys and girls of 9 to 14 years of age no airs of the star he is, Mike along accredited coaches. which has spread to about 17 centers with Martin Gleeson, CEO, Sports in the country. Through CEPs He displayed much enthusiasm in Education Development India Ltd., competency-based training format, playing some fine shots and taking up (SEDIL) and Vignesh Balasubrama- participants will engage in cricket all the bowling and fielding practices niam, Founder, InsideEDGE, kick development. that the students were taught by the started the programme in Chennai. activities”, said Martin expressing coaches. He relentlessly shared some Making an entry into a roaring crowd, optimism about the future of CEP the Australian middle order star, also of the secrets of his stellar career to in Chennai. the student champs at the camp. called as the ‘Role Model’ for CEP, shook hands with some budding What Is This CEP Program All About? champs at Cricket India Academy’s >>> Full story and more photos How differently does it train young on www.yocee.in Page 2 E-PAPER YOCee May 13 - May 26, 2012 55 days in space By Vamsi Krishna R space, he’s obviously lying. They Student Reporter usually work with their legs strapped to a platform. So, no goofing around Read news If you’re an astronomy freak, you during work. shouldn’t have missed this one. Now the most important thing, gross online at Marsha Sue Ivins, a retired stuff! They have bags which have to astronaut, cosmonaut, space be attached to the closet before they www.yocee.in engineer addressed a group of do their gross stuff. After they are students at Birla Planetarium on done, they have to take the bag and Updated daily April 30, 2012. She used to be more dump it in something that looks like of a flight engineer in her career. a bucket. Here comes the gross part, She began telling the gross stuff is A Fortnightly Newsletter from the students about used for making space life like how drinking water. they eat, work and You read that (www.yocee.in - news website for sleep. And do you right, DRINKING Chennai’s young people) know that WATER! Founder - editor Astronauts move Never mind! Any- Revathi R about the space way, did you know station by flying that there can Student reporters team because there’s no never be (well, at for this issue gravity or G-force. least for the next Nandini P.S. Here are some 20 years) a gravity generating system Smruthi S more interesting Sruti S info that Ivins in space? Vamsi Krishna R shared with the Ivins also said that group. if you want to be Guest contributors They eat food an astronaut, you Aravindhan P compressed in need a Master’s Charvee R bags. So if they degree in at least Vishruthi S eat food with their something, Circulation food bags open, they’ll have sauce preferably Science. So if you think that you can just goof around in • Free circulation - online at and nuts floating all around the www.yocee.in/category/epaper/ space station. While drinking water school and be an astronaut, you’re they usually make balls of water and WRONG! • Circulated through email to individual subscribers gulp it up. Ivins’ tips to become an astronaut: They sleep in cozy, comfy bags ♦ Study hard For Advertising which are not too soft or too hard. ♦ Be creative Contact phone: +91 9840544629 Now you know that if an astronaut says that he didn’t sleep well in ♦ Never take NO for an answer! 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Royapettah High Gopu (98417 24641) or Badri (98840 Road, Mylapore. 66566) Construct your own motor, see what This will be followed by choral music is inside an iron box, make a 2 way performance by thre groups – Learn arts, crafts, switch. All this, and more will be done Sargam, children’s choir, Akshayam, at Power Up – A Science workshop on choir for adults and children from embroidery - May 14 to 31 Electricity and Magnetism at SOS children’s village. For more Vidhyapika Learning Centre. This details, contact : 98401 32913 Summer camp for children and workshop aims at understanding and adults. Children can learn drawing appreciating the concepts of Electric- and painting (all mediums), chocolate ity and Magnetism through hands-on Tamil Heritage Workshops – and candle making, folkart, textile demos, experiments and videos. May 19 & 20 designing, paper craft, clay model- ling, and fireless cooking. 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Srinivasan? around us with a guided tour of Nageswara Rao Park by Prof. Lets Do Something and Money In the Government run CBSE schools, S. Swaminathan. these songs are sung regularly during Wizards are jointly conducting an the school events. Try if you can A session on Hindu Iconography to exclusive money management recollect – Odi Vilaaiyadu pappa of identify the icons in Hindu temples workshop for children of ages 9 to 12 poet Subramania Bharathi and and the stories behind them followed years. Children will learn about saving Cheluvina muddina makkale of by a guided tour of Kapaleeswara money and management of available H.S Venkatesh Murthy. They are temple, Mylapore by funds in fun way. Venue - Lets Do among the favourite songs of the V. Sivaramakrishnan and Something, Velachery. young in the 1980s. Badri Seshadri. To register contact - 9094728869, 9042806153. Dr. Sudha Raja will present a thesis The workshop is open only to 40 participants on first-come-first-served titled ‘MB Srinivasan and his contribu- (Continued on page 4) basis. Fee Rs. 100. Page 4 E-PAPER YOCee May 13 - May 26, 2012 Chennai Kids Directory released Become a Student Reporter By Sanjana Patnaik Children made different kinds of Student Reporter vibrantly coloured puppets ranging from star fishes to coconut trees, YOCee launched its third edition of from birds to sharks. Last date to apply : May 19, 2012 Chennai Kids’ Directory on April 29, The puppets consisted of three parts 2012 . - the head, the mouth and the rest of The launch was held at ARKAY the body. The mouth was made in The Student Reporter programme Convention Centre, in Mylapore. the manner of one of the popular of YOCee is back for the sixth con- paper games, Four Cups. It was an interactive meeting with a secutive year. After the workshop got over, it was Students from class 6 to 12 are time for the launch of the directory. eligible to apply for the P.S. Nandini, one of the student programme. A maximum of 25 re- reporters of YOCee briefed on the porters will be taken for the aca- formation and the activities of the demic year.