Senior Secondary School

JULY 2011

The Commerce Club election of Bala Vidya Mandir for the year 2011-12 was held on 28th of July. It was conducted in the most democratic way, with each candidate vying with one another with the fieriest speech and doling out promises galore.
The newly elected office bearers for the year 2011-12 are-

PRESIDENT                          VAIBHAV
VICE-PRESIDENT               TANUSHREE
SECRETARY                         K E SHRIGUHAN
TREASURER                        PRANAY PALEPU 

On 4th July 2011, the Commerce club of BVM ADYAR  was formally inaugurated at the Vidya Peet auditorium by the chief guest.

The inauguration featured the various activities conducted by the commerce club and the consumer club. The elected office bearers for the academic year 2011-12 i.e  The President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of both, the Commerce and Consumer club were awarded their badges by the chief guest.

The chief guest for the day was Mr.Rakesh Ragunathan who is the founder of Infusion Foods Pvt. Ltd, which is parent company of Petawrap. Petawrap is India's first grilled wraps concept. Though Rakesh majored in Finance and Marketting, his love for cooking made him start Petawrap. Being a very eminent personality in the business world, he urged the students to start out on their own. Having hosted various cookery shows he had gained great expertise in the food industry and thus, answered all the questions asked by the students precisely.

After his inspiring speech, students started considering the food industry as a good career option. The programme which lasted for about 2 hours came to the end with the National Anthem.

August 2011

The first activity conducted by the office bearers of the commerce club during August  was an event named ‘marketing’ ,wherein the participants had to launch a product and market it as well. The team had to answer queries from the judge Ms.Kruthika Srikrishna, an alumnus and the audience.  The members of the club took part in this activity with vigour and the presentations were peppered with wit and humour. The team consisting of Keshav & Praveen won the first prize.  Topics given to them were sports shoes, chocalates, hi-speed internet broad band and soap.

The second activity of the month was a business quiz. The Quiz master was Aneesh, a class XII student. Six teams of two members each participated in this event. The quiz consisted of  visuals divided into various segments like connects, logos, identifying  the personality etc.  The quiz master conducted the quiz in a lively manner. The members found the event very enjoyable and thought provoking as well.

OCTOBER 2011

SHIPWRECK EVENT

The “Shipwreck” was conducted on 14th October for the members of the Commerce Club. The members who took part in the event posed as different business men who were travelling in a ship which is about to sink. They tried to convince the captains why the lifeboats should be given to them. Ms.Pranathi D and Ms.Shloka N, alumni of BVM adjudged the event. Ishan, Adithya and Parveen won prizes. 

MODERN TRENDS IN BANKING

Ms.Gayathri Sai, an alumnus of BVM gave a lecture on the emerging trends in banking and new licences of RBI on 19th  October. As manager-credit, AXIS Bank, she shared her experiences with the club members about private sector banking, UTI, new licenses of RBI etc.  The members found it was very informative.

DECEMBER 2011

Mr. Prashanth from Saravana Stocks gave a live demo about online trading and the working of National Stock Exchange to the students of class XII. He briefed the students on online trading and explained about bulls and bears.

The students of class XI enacted a play titled “SHEIKING, RATTLING & ROLLING IN THE MONEY”. It was about the conflicts in running a football club successfully without compromising on the game. It was scripted by Ishan Venkat Padmanabhan and directed by Akshath V and enacted by students of class XI.