Experience of Conducting Mass Media Workshop to Young Students

During Ganeshotsav, Jnana Prabodhini Prashala organizes a variety of workshops for students. For these 10 days, there are no regular classes — instead, students immerse themselves in learning new skills.

This year, I had the privilege of conducting a Mass Media workshop for 20 boys from 5th to 7th standard (a mixed group).

I don’t need to emphasize how bright these children are — after all, they are among the 80 selected out of 1200+ who appear for the entrance exam. Still, knowing this in theory is very different from experiencing it firsthand.

One of our workshop topics was Social Media. While I was explaining cyber security, a student pointed out the difference between http and https. What truly amazed me was when a couple of them went on to explain, in very simple terms, how encryption works!

On the final day, a fellow coach (conducting workshops for the third year) shared his observation: “These students are raising the bar every year. What I had prepared for the first few days was already known to them 😄 — and covered in the introduction itself. We had to rethink and stretch our plans for the rest of the sessions.”

It was both humbling and inspiring to witness such curiosity and brilliance at such a young age.