Team Events

Minutes prepared by: Uma Nandhakumar

Date : July 22nd, 2006

Time : 6:15PM

Place : Mountain View Community Center

Compered By: Uma Kailasam

Prayer Song By: Sahana (Daughter of Uma & Jayamani)

Welcome Address by Bala:

Bala welcomed the chief guest and members of TEAM. He expressed his pride in being part of an organization like TEAM and his satisfaction in acheiving a lot of things for schools in India.

View on TEAM by members:

Kumar Kumarappan:

Kumar has been with TEAM for the past 3 years and said that his experience has been personally gratifying and rewarding. He described TEAM as being simple, noble and efficient. Making a difference in India by just contributing a little a month and education being the focus were some of the reasons for his joining TEAM.

Logu Palanisamy:

Logu has been with TEAM since 2001. In the project that he executed last year, Logu got the PTA also involved and got additional contributions and hence 2 schools got benefited instead of just one. He urged TEAM members to look for more contributions to TEAM by checking if the company they work for would match employee contributions or if it has grants. Logu himself used a grant provided by Yahoo for a project on a school to provide for various things like drinking water, UPS, printer, furniture, fence and gates.

Project Execution Experience by Mrs. Vijayakumari Venkatesan:

Mrs.Vijayakumari works in the child development department of the government. From the provisions given by the government, she could only supply the basic necessities of the children. When her son-in-law, Manish – TEAM member, got selected to execute a project, she was able to provide chairs to schools in her division which benefited about 250-300 kids. She expressed how satisfied she felt when she saw the students being happy to have their chairs.

School Selection by Chandra Vellaisamy:

Chandra has been with TEAM since 2004 and he is now the joint secretary for chapter 1.

Total no of members selected in this meet for school project execution: 89

Total money distributed: $44,500 (INR 20 Lakhs)

Children benefited: 22,000 (approx)

Address by Chief Guest:

Senthil Kailasam introduced the chief guest, Mr.Raju Reddy. After working at Intel for about 10 years, Mr.Reddy founded the company named Sierra Atlantic at Fremont for which he is also the CEO. He is a board member at BITS Pilani, where he had done his undergraduate degree. Raju also was responsible for the creation of Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA).

Mr. Raju started his note with a good comment on giving money away: “Giving away money where its put to efficient use is not an easy job”. He expressed his admiration and respect for TEAM. He liked TEAM’s simplicity of ideas, the involvement and sense of ownership that it gives to its members and the fact that TEAM has been addressing problems of schools in rural India. Through his father, who is actively helping under-privileged schools as president of Saraswathy Sishya Mandhir, Raju is also contributing his part to improve schools in India.

Nila (daughter Jagan & Subha) presented the memento to the chief guest.

TEAM News Presentation by Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy:

Highlights of Presentation:

• Age of TEAM is 8 years.
• Member Strength in 2006: 1024.
• Total projects executed: 792
• Total money contributed: $396,000.
• Kids benefited: 1 million.
• TEAM has 10 chapters of 200-400 members each. An impressive growth for an organization which started with just 10 people.
• Operating cost is still $0.
• Introduction to FSA: Other type of charity work like sponsoring a student can be done using FSA where TEAM members can accumulate additional contributions through car donation, gift match and grant donation.
• Introduction to TEAM Forum: a place to share project experience, log information about schools that need help etc.

Video by Sridhar Minor explained about what to do when you join TEAM and how to execute a project.

Pot Luck:

The potluck had a good variety of rice preparations and an assortment of deserts, snacks and drinks. The highlight was fresh made coffee provided by our member/coordinator Mr. Annamalai Palani. Thanks to him and his team.

Fun Programme:

Compered by: Karunakaran Palanisamy

A lot of good dances, songs sung by sweet voices and skits by cute kids helped cool down the hot day.

Vote of Thanks

Mr. Jaya delivered the vote of thanks and concluded the evening with national anthem

Thanks to everyone for making this TEAM meet to be successful. Again, TEAM proved that Together we can make it happen!

Regards,
Uma Nandhakumar and TEAM News Group

Minutes of the TEAM Meeting

Minutes prepared by: Sakthi Preethi Kumaresan

Date : 07-01-2006

Time : 6 PM

Place : Mountain View Community Center

Compered By: Miss. Nalini

Welcome Song By: Baby Varsha

Welcome Address: Mr. Ashwin

Sharing Of Views on TEAM by Members:

Mrs. Saravana Sudhandhira :

Mrs. Saravana Sudhandhira gave a good start to the evening by sharing her experience as a TEAM member. We could feel the positive energy when she described the means and ways in which she contributed to her school in Vellalapalayam, thanks to TEAM. She mentioned how this service was received with appreciation by the elders of her village. She also expressed the sense of satisfaction she felt from doing this project.

Mr. Manish:

A year back, Mr. Manish had the opportunity to serve on behalf of TEAM. He could make significant changes to the school in his native place. He improved the amenities by building restrooms and buying furniture.

Mr. Senthil Ranganathan:

When he was chosen for the TEAM project last year, Mr. Senthil Ranganathan chose the school in Kallakuruchi. He was able to build a library and improved facilities with new furniture. He went a step ahead, by encouraging local residents to participate in the project and matched their contributions.

TEAM NEWS Presentation:

Through his presentation, Mr. Pravin Balasubramaniam gave an insight into the milestones crossed by TEAM in the past.

Highlights of Presentation:

• The membership has grown from 123 to 1061, while still continuing to grow.)
• The number of school projects has grown in leaps and bounds from 18 to 532 in the past five years.)
• The total donations made in the year 2005 is an impressive 266, 000 $.)
• The highlight of the presentation is that the total operating cost so far has been 0$ as TEAM has continued to a completely voluntary organization.)
• Apart from Bay Area, TEAM has spread its wings with chapters in Singapore, India, UK and Bloomington.)
• 2006 will see new chapters in Dubai and Australia.)
• Dream School Achievements·)
• Projects by Friends of TEAM.)
• TEAM Walk!· )
• Ways to Donate more: Gift Matching and Car Donation)

Address by Chief Guest:

Mr. Mason Bytes, graced the occasion with his presence as the chief guest. A Stanford alumni, he has worked in Hewlett Packard’s Research and Development division. He pioneered efforts to establish HP offices in India and China. Having accomplished in the industry in academia, Mr. Mason took a sabbatical to visit India. Given his love for India and education, there could have been no better person to preside this TEAM meet.

He humbly shared his experience of living a simpleton life in India. He spent a lot of time at the high in Konganapuram, a village in southern India. He lived in close connection with the students, ate meals with them and taught in classrooms. The goal of his visit was to build an environment where learning is fun and a system where students are taught self confidence, leadership skills and team work. He said that this possibility to contribute and his love for the community keeps drawing him back to India. His speech left a strong positive impression in the minds of the audience.

Baby Nandini presented a memento to him as a token of our appreciation.

School Selection

Event Conducted By Mr.Jana made the TEAM school selection announcements and also briefed on the project selection and execution process.

CHAPTER-01– 2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Balamurugan (K Anandakumar) )
2. Chandran Muthusamy( Rajkumar Thangavelu)
3. Duraiswamy Srerangan( Saminathan Seerangan )
4. Indra Marusamy Rajkumar( Thangavelu )
5. Karthik S Ramasamy (Karthik S Ramasamy )
6. Kppusamy Ramasamy (Prabhu Palanisamy )
7. Paramasivam( V Anandakumar )
8. Prabhakaran (Abirami Elavarasu )
9. Rajan Madhavan (Rajkumar Thangavelu )
10. Srinivasan Balasubramaniam( Pravin Balasubramaniam )
11. Sathishkumar Govindasamy (Sivakumar Sengottuvelappan )
12. Selvi Periyasamy( Kumar Saravanakumar )
13. Senthilraj D (Prabhu Palanisamy )
14. Sivakumar Rathinavelumani( Prabhu Palanisamy )
15. Subburaman Sankaran (Kandasamy Nachimuthu )
16. Satish Murugesan ( Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy )

CHAPTER-01– 2001 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

17. Balaraman Kuppusamy (Ravikumar Subbarayan )
18. Dhivakaran Muruganantham ( Dhivakaran Muruganantham )
19. Ilango Periathambi (Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu )
20. Jaganathan Athiappan( Ravikumar Dhandivel )
21. Jawahar Swaminathan (Ravikumar Subbarayan )
22. Manickam Athiyapan (Ravikumar Dhandivel )
23. Narayanasamy Subramanian (Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu )
24. Radha Bala (Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu )
25. Raj (Dhivakaran Muruganantham )
26. Ramkumar Vadivelu (Karthik Somasundaram )
27. Sakthivel Muthusamy (Ramki Natesan )
28. Selvaraj Ramasamy (Karthik Somasundaram )
29. Sivaramkumar Kandasamy (Abirami Jayaprakash )
30. Thanigai Ganapathy (Murugesan Mohan )
31. Vas Swami (Senthil KS )
32. Viji Palaniappan (Rajamani Sengodan )

CHAPTER-01– 2002 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

33. Ananda Krishnan (Sudha G )
34. Balaji Thirukameswaran (Kumar Rethi )
35. G E Mageshkumar (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy )
36. K Anandkumar (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy )
37. Kannan (Chidambaram Sudha G )
38. Nalan Thamma (Karuppusami Muniappan )
39. Pranav Srinivasan (Bala Nachimuthu )
40. Raghunath Palaniappan (Palanisamy Manickampatty )
41. Raju Subbian (Hemalatha Sivakumar )
42. Ramanathan (Palanisamy Manickampatty )
43. Ramapriya Krishnamurthy (Jaganathan Radhakrishnan )
44. Senthil Kumaran Sivarajan ( Sudhakar Sukumar )
45. Sivakumar Kalyanasundaram (Jaganathan Radhakrishnan )
46. Subramania Kaushik (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy )
47. Sugandha Srikanteswaran (Karuppusamy Muniappan )
48. Sureshkumar Senniappan (Sudha G )

CHAPTER-02– 2004 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

49. Balaji Kannan (Raghu Raman )
50. Giri Namasivayam (Manish )
51. Guru Reddy (Karmuglian )
52. Jenkins Johnson ( Balaji Vasan )
53. Kalaiselvi Ganapathi (Arasikumar )
54. Logachander Chakravarthy( Ganesh Subramanian )
55. Manivannan Muthumanickam (Ganesh Subramanian )
56. Prabhakar( Arasikumar )
57. Permila Kumaraswamy (Nirmala Balakrishnan )
58. Saranya Ram (Lakshmi Venkateswaran )
59. Sumathi RamkiNatesan (Sumathi RamkiNatesan )
60. Sunil Parthasarathy (Nirmala BalaKrishnan )
61. Thiagarajan (Manish )
62. Vincent Thomas (Balaji Vasan )
63. Vidhya Ganesan (Vidhya Ganesan )
64. Lakshmi Venkateswaran (Lakshmi Venkateswaran )

CHAPTER-02– 2005 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

65. Chockalingam Balasubramanium (Muthuvedi Muthukumaraswamy )
66. Grish Kumar (Lakshmi Venkateswaran )
67. Jagan Somasundram (Karthikeyan Palanisamy )
68. Kumaresan Sand (Senthil KS )
69. Madhu Varma (Radha Bala )
70. Parthy (Sakthivel Muthusamy )
71. Prasad (Sharanabas Rajasekar )
72. Radhakrishnan Renganathan( Gnanpathy Subramaniyam )
73. Ramachandran Kailsam (Karthikeyan Palanisamy )
74. RamPriya Balakrihnan (Chandra Kumar Vellaichamy )
75. Sandeep Neerarambham (Rajinikanth Jayaseelan )
76. Sakthivel Subramanian (Rajasekar )
77. Siva Charmin Saravanan (Murugiah )
78. Suresh Seetharaman (ChandraKumar Vellaichamy )
79. Vasumathi Thathachari (Kodak Seshadri )
80. Zakr Hussain (Muthuvedi Muthukumarswamy )

CHAPTER-06– 2003 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

81. Anand Kuppu (Murali Subbu )
82. Ananth Srinivasan (Prema Ramasamy )
83. B.Sivakumar (Vijaykumar Duraikannu )
84. Colathoor Nalini (Ezhilarasi Rajendran )
85. Balasubramanian Muthusamy (Richard Solomon )
86. Geetha Jagadesan (Sridharan Minor )
87. Gowri Shankar (Ravikumar Subramaniam )
88. Ganesh Nagarajan (Karunakaran Palanisamy )
89. Kannan Chidambaram (Richard Solomon )
90. Kumar Kumarappa (Anbu Gounder )
91. Kumaran Sangareddy (Anand Gurumurthy )
92. < Lalitha Gunasekaran (Anand Gurumurthy /LI>
93. Manavaln Krishnan (Pandiyan Appavu )
94. Mohan Nagalingam (Pandiyan Appavu )
95. Muthukumarasamy (Jeyasankarane Ragouvaran )
96. Rajagopal Subbaih (Karunakaran Palanisamy )

CHAPTER-06– 2004 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

97. Rajendran Murugapadayachi (Rajendran Murugapadayachi )
98. Ram Virudachalam (Anbu Gounder )
99. Ramakrishnan L (Richard Solomon )
100. Saravanan Babu (Jeyasekaran Ragouvaran )
101. Sathish Kumar Palaniappan (Murali Subbu )
102. S.Nandakumar (Ezhilarasi Rajendran )
103. Venkataraman Natham (Narayanasamy Subramanian )
104. Vijay Sundararaj (Pandiyan Appavu )
105. Member Coordinator Ajit Krishnan (Arun Muthukumar )
106. Bob Bashyam (Raj Subbiah )
107. Gnanagurudasan Prakasam ( Kavitha Balasubramanian )
108. Jayachitra Natanasabapathy (Sakthi Senthil )
109. Karthik and Hemali ( Kavitha Balasubramanian )
110. Kumara Subramaniam (Gopi Venkatesan )
111. Nandhakumar Palanisamy (Nandhakumar Palanisamy )
112. Rangaswami Raghunathan (Chandran Muthusamy )
113. Member Coordinator Ravi Sarangarajan (Gopi Venkatesan )
114. Sekar Kapa (Lakshmi Santhamorthy )
115. Senrayan and Lakshmi Prabha (Kavitha Balasubramanian )
116. Shanmugasundaram (Lakshmi Santhamorthy )
117. Selladurai Ganapathy ( Sugeerthi Loganathan )
118. Subhashini Chandrasekar ( Arun Muthukumar )
119. Subha Jayabala (Sugeerthi Loganathan )
120. Vivek Devas (Arun Ganesan )

Notes about Pot Luck (Food)

The potluck was good with a variety of rice preparations and an assortment of deserts, snacks and drinks.

Special Programme

Compeer:Sridhar Minor

Notes

The highlight of the cultural programs was Nimisham 15, a video show shot and edited completely by Mr. Sridhar Minor and his team. It was new effort which was welcomed by the audience. The video show intertwined with cini songs by Raja, Sudha Ganapathikrishnan, Sridhar Minor, Stephanie, Karunakaran, Shruthi and Mala. Together they presented a great entertainment and lightened the evening

General Notes

Vote of Thanks

Miss Padma delivered the vote of thanks and concluded the evening with the national anthem.

Thanks to everyone for making this TEAM meet to be successful. Again, TEAM proved that Together we can make it happen!

Regards,
Sakthi Preethi Kumaresan and TEAM News Group

Date/Day: : Saturday, Dec 17, 2005

Time: : 10 am to Noon

Place : Community meeting room, Normal Public Library, Normal,IL

Dear TEAM,

1. Welcome address by compere – Radhika.
2. Prayer Song (Vandae Madaram) by All
3. Completed/In progress Projects Updates – Balaguru
4. Selected Members’ Project experience
5. Finance updates / Dues – Sugum
6. Project Video (Pampagoundanpalayam School) and TEAM updates – Senthil
7. Question and Answer – Senthil
8. Members selection for project execution for 2005 (For the months of July, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec) – Vijay Balasundaram
   • Senthil Sridharan
   • Sankara Palanisamy (Transferred to Yuvaraj Shanmugam)
   • Raja Adaikala
   • Veena Vivek
   • Jakka Prasad
   • Alagiri Santhalingam

Selected Members:

9. Vote of Thanks
10. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date/Day: : Saturday, May 07, 2005

Time: : 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Place : Community meeting room, Bloomington Public Library, Bloomington,IL

Dear TEAM,

1. Welcome address by compere – Bala
2. Prayer Song by all
3. TEAM updates by Senthil Shanmugam
4. TEAM members (2) talk
5. Selected Members’ Project experience
6. Question and Answer by Senthil Shanmugam
7. Members selection for project execution for 2005 (Jan, Feb, March, April, May, and June)
   • Subbiah Nagarajan (Transferred to Sreekanthan Ramakrishnan)
   • Chandrasekha Ramanujam (Transferred to Sugumaran Subbarayan)
   • Rajkumar Thirupparkadal
   • Suryaprakash Kopula
   • Ramaprabha Sankarasubbu
   • Jayaprakash Palani (Transferred to Ramesh Kumar)

Selected Members:

8. Vote of Thanks
9. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date : March 26, 2005

Time : 6 PM

Place : Mountain View Community Center

Compered By: Sakthi Preethi Kumaresan

Chief Guest: Mr. Ram Duraisamy, Vice President, Mercury

Highlights of the meeting:

• Total schools selected: 60 and each school gets $500.
• 15000 kids are benefited by this TEAM meeting.
• Yet to date, the total operating cost for TEAM is $0.00 only
• Friends of TEAM (FoT) getting geared up.
• FoT is a concept of involving community into helping schools.
• FoT is a channel for executing TEAM projects.
• FoT can produce synergistic results in terms generating money and manpower for helping schools.
• FoT is simply an example for “Good hearts are everywhere!”
• New TEAM chapters getting started around the world.
  1. TEAM Singapore
  2. TEAM UK
  3. TEAM Australia (in progress)

Welcome Song:

The TEAM meet started with the prayer song by baby Stephanie Solomon

Welcome Address:

Bharath Chandramohan welcome the attendees of the TEAM meet. He mentioned that TEAM meet is giving an opportunity to meet all the friends at one place.

Views of TEAM members:

Muthuvedi Muthukumarasamy

• Member of TEAM since 2003
• He is impressed that every penny of TEAM member’s contribution goes to Educational Activities.
• He mentioned that it is not important where the money goes, but how we help the community as whole.
• He requested everyone to contribute for project execution.

Kishore

Kishore is from Rajamundri, Andhra/LI>
• He is impressed by TEAM concept of contribution of money and execution of projects.
• He started a TEAM chapter November 2004 which has 20 Active members now.

Anand Gurumurthy

• Member of TEAM since 2002
• He highlighted the following points of TEAM which impressed him.
• Every TEAM member is a decision maker.
• TEAM provides guidelines to execute the projects, but does not enforce any thing on school selection.
• Selected TEAM member has all the freedom to choose a school and execute the project based on requirements of that school.

Ramakrishnan

• Member since TEAM since 2000
• He executed TEAM project for a blind school. Provided benches and other required items for that blind school.
• Though the children of the blind school cannot see what is provided by TEAM, but they felt happy about the basic facilities provided by TEAM because they no more get wounds by sitting on the floor.
• He requested all TEAM members to revisit the schools for which they executed the TEAM project.

Introduction to Chief Guest:

Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy welcome chief guest Mr. Ram Duraisamy who is a founder of Chainlink Technologies which then renamed to Kintana Technologies. He is called “Kintana” Ram. Later, Kintana was bought by Mercury and Ram became Vice President of Mercury. Ram did his Masters in CIT, Coimbatore. Before founding Chainlink Techlonogies, Ram worked for Oracle and KPMG. Ram also has founded a non-profit organization “Top Light” through which every year twenty students are getting scholarship for their education.

Speech by Chief Guest:

Mr. Ram Duraisamy started his extraordinary speech with a question to the attendees of TEAM meeting that how do the 36 million and 36 billion relate to state of California. He said California has a population of 36 million people and the state government has alloted 36 billion dollars for their education. That means every California Kid gets $1000 for their education. He again raised a question to the attendees that how much budget is alloted for education by state of Tamilnadu, India. He said every Tamilnadu Kid gets $15 for their education. He insisted that this should change in future. He said the education makes a person to get his/her identity, gives him/her self-confidence, and improves his/her quality of life. He said there are three ways to help the community for education: 1. Accidental help, 2. Passive help, and 3. Passionate help. The accidental help is an indirect contribution of money to a good cause by buying the products from a company which contributed a certain amount of its profit to that good cause. The passive help is contributing money for a good cause, but not actively involved to accelerate it. The passionate help is to contribute money and self involvement for a good cause. He requested all the TEAM members to use TEAM as a platform to passionately involve in TEAM’s educational projects. He also highlighted Thirukurals which explain the importance of the education.

Gift to Chief Guest:

Baby Uma gave the special gift to the chief guest Mr. Ram Duraisamy on behalf of TEAM.

TEAM Announcements by Sudhakar Sukumar:

He mentioned that there lot of recent activities in TEAM for its growth. He highlighted the following,

1. New chapters around the world:

TEAM Singapore: 25 members. Two schools are selected
TEAM UK: 20 members
Addition 100 members to TEAM USA in 2005
TEAM USA now has 1000+ members

2. Total TEAM projects so far done: 450
3. FoT is welcome by everyone and getting lot of help from the local communities where TEAM projects are held.

He requested for volunteers for TEAM walk that will be conducted on end of August 2005. Also, requested everyone to send their suggestions to info@indiateam.org

Hundi was circulated to collect money for the hall arrangements for keeping the operating cost of TEAM to be $0.00 always.

Video Presentation:

Prepared by Sridharan Minor
The video presentation explained about the member selection and project execution

Dinner Time:

The TEAM volunteers made the potluck successful by providing delicious food prepared by them. The potluck had varieties of food such as Idli, Sambar, Chutney, many varieties of rice, juice, Sodas, and Cake.

Cultural Began: Below are the list of events and participants.

Sound Engineer: Karthik Palaniswami

Sr#	Event	Name of Participant	Song
1	Dance	Akila Nallappan, Abirami Murugappan, Vedika Iyer	Chole Jese
2	Dance	Pavithra, Sindhuja, Swetha	Theeraadha vilayattu pillai
3	Dance	Amlu Natesan, Saffra, Abirami Sundharam, Lalitha	Folk Song
4	Dance	Rohit	En aasai maithiliyeVasudha
5	Dance	Raja, Shruthi	Kattu Kattu
6	Song	Steffane	Devotional
7	Song	Nithya	Devotional
8	Song	Varsha Ravikumar	Devotional
9	Song	Karunakaran	Unakkaga ellam unakaaga
10	Song	Vadhika Iyer	Barathiyar Song
11	Song	Meera	Vaseegara (Karaoki)
12	Song	Pooja	Devotional
13	Song	Raja	Thathindom – Chadramugi (Karaoki)
14	Song	Amlu Natesan	MIX
15	Song	Abinaiya, Divya	Theeradha vilayaattu pillai
16	Song	Raja	Mudhal kanave Majnu ( Karaoki )

TEAM School Selection list Announcements by Senthil K.S

TEAM Project Selection Members list

CHAPTER-01– 2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Sridhar Ramarajan (Elavarasu Arumugam)
2. Sathiskumar Govindasamy (Ilangovel Thulasimani)
3. Muthusamy Senthilnathan (Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy)
4. Balaji Parameshvaran (Kumar Saravanakumar)
5. Chandra Narayanasamy (Prabhu Palanisamy)
6. Ramki Natesan (Pravin Balasubramaniam)
7. Lakshmi Narayanan (Rajkumar Thangavelu)
8. Sangameshwar (Vimala Moorthy)

CHAPTER-01– 2001 Batch

1. Sekhar Kandasamy (Rajamani Sengodan)
2. Ramesh Ramamurthy (Dhivakaran Muruganantham<)/LI>
3. Raja Eswar (Abirami Jayaprakash)
4. Prasuna Dornadula (Abirami Jayaprakash)
5. Muthugopal Balasubrmanian (Dhivakaran Muruganantham)
6. Vas Swami (Senthil KS)
7. Lakshmi Balakrishnan (Ravikumar Subbarayan)
8. Rajasekar Ramki Natesan

CHAPTER-01 –2002 Batch

1. Loganathan Palanisamy (Jaganathan Eswaran)
2. suresh Murugesan (Kumar Rethi)
3. Roopa Antony (Karuppasamy Gounder)
4. Karuppusami Gounder (Karuppusami Gounder)
5. Duraivelu Dhanapal (Saravanan Nagarajan)
6. Prabhakar Mani (Sudhakar Sukumar)
7. Senthil Paramasivam (Jaganathan Radhakrishnan)
8. Ravichandran Kasirajan (Udayakumar Subburayan)

CHAPTER-02 -2004 Batch

1. Rajavel and Lakshmi (Raghu Raman)
2. Aravind Mali (Raghu Raman)
3. Mohan Rajarathinam (Ganesan Subramaniam)
4. Ganesan Padmanaban (Mahadevan Pattabiraman)
5. Gopal Thiruvengadam (Sudha Moorthy)
6. Rajesh Babu (Karmugilan Rajangam)
7. Balaji Rajagopalan (Manish/Govindaraj Haridass)
8. Karthik Mandakolathur (Nirmala Balakrishnan)

CHAPTER-02 BATCH: 2005

1. Rajinikanth Jayaseelan (Rajinikanth Jayaseelan)
2. Vijay Nagarajan (Chandra Kumar Vellaichamy)
3. Susanta Dash Ranjan (Karthikeyan Palanisamy)
4. Ramkumar Srinivasan (MuthuVedi Muthukumaraswam)
5. Prasad Sharanabasawa (Rajasekar)
6. Suresh Sujitha (Saravanan Murugiah)
7. Sri Mallur (Senthil Kumar)
8. Devanathan Sattanathan (Chandra Kumar Vellaichamy)

CHAPTER-06 BATCH: 2003

1. Balaguru Paramasivan Ravikumar Subramaniam)
2. Balaji Vasan (Ravikumar Subramaniam)
3. Ganesh Nagarajan (Karunakaran Palanisamy)
4. Kailash Prabhu (Ravikumar Subramaniam)
5. Kumar Natarajan (Karunakaran Palanisamy)
6. Linga Neerathingam (Jeyasnakarane,Ragouvaran)
7. Mathivana T (Jeyasankarane,Ragouvaran)
8. Raghu Raman (Anand Gurumurthy)
9. Shahul Feroze (Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
10. Sambath Subramaniam (Rammohan Krishnan)
11. Thiagarajan Lakshmanan (Murali Subbu)
12. Uma Durairajan (Anand Gurumurthy)

CHAPTER-06 BATCH: 2004

1. Arul Jyothi Murali)
2. Gunasekaran M (Arun Muthukumar)
3. Kavitha Balasubramanian (Kavitha Balasubramanian)
4. Radhachandran Padmanaban (Arun Muthukumar)
5. Raji Subbiah (Raj Subbiah)
6. Ramya Jayavel (Lakshmi Santhamorthy)
7. Saravanan (Arun Ganesan)
8. Umakanth Natarajan (Gopi Venkatesan)

Vote of thanks by Sivakumar Natesan:

He thanked chief guest,team members, friends, parents and kids for attending the TEAM meeting.

Thanks to everyone for making this TEAM meet to be successful. Again, TEAM proved that “Together we can make it happen!

Regards,
SenthilVadivu Kailasam and TEAM News Group

Date : Nov 13 2004

Time : 6 PM

Place : Mountain View Community Center

Compered By: Premila Kumaraswamy

Highlights of the meeting:

• 100 schools selected.
• Distributed $ 500 to every school.
• 100 * 500 = $ 50,000 = 25 lakhs.
• Approximately, every school will have 150 students.
• Total students get benefited from this 100 project = 100 * 150 = 15,000 Students.
• If our project sustains for 10 years, total students get benefited by this 100 school is 15000 * 10 = 1.5 lakhs kids.
• TEAM touched 1.5 laksh kids by this Nov 13th, 2004 meeting.
• Hats off to everyone.

Even though there was delay in opening the community hall, the TEAM meeting kicked off pretty quickly as everyone volunteered in making the arrangements.

6:50PM Welcome Song:

The TEAM meet commenced with the prayer song, sung by baby Sahana Jayamani.

6:54PM Condolences:

As Anbu Kounder presided, TEAM members expressed condolences for TEAM member Annamalai who passed away on August 1 2004.

6:56PM Welcome Address:

Ravi Welcomed everyone for the TEAM meeting saying that this meeting is for getting constructive and encouraging inputs for the TEAM. He mentioned that the mission of the TEAM is to create educational awareness ALLOVER INDIA,improve the infrastructure and build confidence in children. He added that TEAM’s vision is to reachout to more schools. He appreciated everyone for doing such a great work.

7:00 TEAM Action:

Ganapathy Subramaniyam Mentioned that he is a TEAM member for the past 3 1/2 years and 6 months after being a TEAM member. He pointed out that even though he had bought benches and screens for the school, the school HM told that there was NO INSPIRATION among children, when he visited India 2 years back. Thinking about “where can we go from here?”, he said that we should

1.Inspire Teachers,

2.Improve the Process,

3.Change the Curriculum.

He added that these 3 along with Infrastructure form the pillars for Child Education.

7:05 Project Activities:

Jaganathan Radhakrishnan who is a TEAM member for the past 2 years and who got selected for project execution, shared his experiences on selecting a school, executing the project with the help of his brother and sister-in-law who is a school teacher.

Jaganathan’s mother spoke about their project execution in Gommudipundi. She said that there were no benches in the school and when they heard about TEAM, they were so glad and thankful. She told that this service is done past the oceans and giving something to someone who does not have it, is a noble service. She blessed everyone in TEAM to have good health and life.

7:10PM Introduction to Chief Guest:

Karunakaran Palanisamy Welcomed chief guest Mr.Sivakumar Seshappan who was 2002-2003 president and a current member of Bay Area Tamil Mandram and Mrs Sivakumar who is a Tamil Teacher. He added that Sivakumar is from Pudukottai, Tamilnadu and has completed Masters in National College, Trichy and presently working in Visa Technologies. He brought to our notice that Mr.Sivakumar is working on getting Tamil on the web. What a challanging job!! Then he spoke about the events that took place in bay area when Mr.Sivakumar played a major role in Tamil Cultural Center.

1. Musical concert by K J Jesudas for Shankara Eye Foundation

2. Muthamil Mandram by Soloman Papaiya.

3. How did Tamil Originate? by MadhiVannan who is a disciple of Devaneya Pavanar.

4. Agni Kunju drama in Bharathi vila.

7:15PM Speech by Chief Guest

Mr.Sivakumar expressed that he is very honored by the invitation for the TEAM meeting and said that education is must for everyone. He said that a similar event (no key for building) occurred at Vasantha Vila 2003 which was conducted by Tamil Kalachara Maiyam for Tamil New Year.He asked how many of us read “Anbulla Sinaykitheay” in Thendral where many problems are discussed. He added that few years back when he came to USA, many looked forward for Tamil friends. He said that we see the distance between countries when there is a problem and there is no one to guide us. Tamil Kalachara Maiyan was formed for his purpose to help people in need. He blessed TEAM that it should grow beyond Tamilnadu to allover India.

7:22PM Gift to Chief Guest:

Baby Sunmitha gave the special gift to the chief guest and he received it blissfully.

7:23PM Speech by Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy:

He thanked 2 TEAMSOFT contributors saying that names are not usually mentioned. The credits went to

1. “It should work now!!” Kumar Rethi.

2. “Done!!” Sakthivel Muthuswamy.

Keep it up, Friends!

7:27PM Hundi was circulated to collect money for the hall arrangements.

7:29PM Video Presentation:

Sridharan Minor gave a clear and organized video presentation on

1. TEAM event on Oct 2 2004 for Gandhi Day. 2. TEAM Walk for education, which was on August 28th at Shoreline Park. 3. School Projects at Thondamuthur and Kumbakonam high schools. 4. The heartbreaking “Kumbakonam Tragedy” with the message “Feelings don’t prevent anything. Do something”

7:35PM Dinner Time:

Everyone started to smell the hunger-creating aroma of delicious food prepared by TEAM members. There were Idli, Sambar, Chutney, many varieties of rice, juice and Ice Cream. There was plenty of food for everyone and everyone enjoyed it and got ready for the culturals, recharging themselves for enjoyment.

8:25PM Cultural Began: Below are the list of events and participants.

Sr#	Event	Detail/ Note	Kids Name	Coordinator Name
1	Dance	Appam Murukku Vadai- Pushpavanm	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Ranjani Narasimhan 3.Gokul Natesan 4.Megana Ravikumar 5.Abinaya Sundaram 6.Akshita 7.Lalitha Thirunagiri	Sumathi
2	Song	Bajan	Divya	Geetha
3	Dance	Train Song	Sarvesh Mayilvahanan, Malar Kumarappan, Ram Nallappan, Divya Nallakumar	Malar
4	Slogam/ Song / Story	Vasudha, Varun, Madhu	Sujatha
5	Dance	Alaala ganda/Sangamam	Ramya Priya	Siva Girija
6	Song	Barathiyar Song / Odi vilaiyaadu paappa	Arvind, Akila, Shruthi Bala	Karunakaan
7		Fashion Medley of Tamil Songs	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Saffra Raja 3.Gokul Natesan 4.Megana Ravikumar 5.Abinaya Sundaram 6.Akshita 7.Lalitha Thirunagiri 8.Nadiya 9.Somesh
8	Magic	Magic Show	Vishwaesh Rajiv	Santha
9	Dance	Kannum Kannum kallandhu	Vijaypriya, Nithya Priya	Siva Girija
10	Song	Natesa Gowtham	Hema and Kids	Hema
11	Dance	Aasai Adhigam Vatchu	Stefanie, Nithya	Richard , E.Raja Kumar
12	Dance	Tamil Mix	Shruthi, Sudharsan	Shanthi Kathiresan
13	Dance	Hindi Song Dola Re dola Re -DEVDAS	1.Amlu Natesan 2.Lalitha Thirunagiri 3.Abinaya Sundaram	Sumathi

8:50PM TEAM Announcement:

Senthil KS made the following announcement.

• No. of Schools Selected – 100
• Amount distributed in USD – $50,000
• Amount distributed in INR – Rs 25 Lakh
• No. of Students benefited per school – 150

TEAM Project Selection Members list- TEAM CHAPTER 01

2000 Batch

Member Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Anandakumar K (Suppusamy D Murthy)
2. Arun Rajamanikam (Rajkumar Thangavelu)
3. Jaganathan Eswaran(Pravin Balasubramaniam)
4. John Kuilan (Pravin Balasubramaniam)
5. Mathi Ganesh (Rajkumar Thangavelu)
6. Micheal Sekar(Kumar Saravanakumar)
7. Ramachandran(Elavarasu Arumugam)

2001 Batch

1. Anand Gurumurthy (Ramki Natesan)
2. Ezhilarasi Rajendran (Abirami Jayaprakash)
3. Gopal Kumarappan ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)
4. Jayshree Rajagopalan ( Abirami Jayaprakash)
5. Kalyanasundaram Muthusamy ( Muthusamy Senthilnathan)
6. Kokila Natarajan (Muthusamy Senthilnathan)
7. Manickam Athiyapan (Ravikumar Dhandivel)
8. Mohan Babu (Senthil KS)
9. Rajendran Arumugam (Karthik Somasundaram)
10. Ramanan Dayalan ( Dhivakaran Muruganantham)
11. Ravikumar Subbarayan ( Ravikumar Subbarayan)
12. Sakthivel Sabapathy ( Ravikumar Dhandivel)
13. Senthil Kumar (Abirami Jayaprakash)
14. Senthil Varadappan (Rajamani Sengodan)
15. Subbarao Dogiparthi ( Karthik Somasundaram)
16. Venkat Damodharan (Ramki Natesan)

2002 Batch

1. Arivalagan Kaliyaperumal (Kumar Rethi)
2. B.mugunthan (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
3. Hariharan Sivakumar ( Bala Nachimuthu)
4. Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
5. Kamaraj Shankar ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
6. Kavitha Thangavelu ( Jaganathan Eswaran)
7. Kumar Easwaramoorthy ( Kumar Rethi)
8. Perumal Gopal ( Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
9. R.Sabhapathy (Sathishkumar Gopalaswamy)
10. Solomon Rajkumar ( Udayakumar Subbarayan)
11. Suresh Kathirvel ( Palanisamy Manickampatty)
12. Thiagarajan Ramachandran ( Balasubramanian Kulandaisamy)
13. Vaidyanathan Sambasivam ( Karuppusami Muniappan)
14. Vasanth Mohan (Hemalatha Sivakumar)
15. Venkatesh Annamanaidu ( Karuppusami Gounder)
16. Viswanath Raghavan ( Saravanan Nagarajan)

2003 Batch

1. Anand Ramasamy ( Ravikumar Subramaniam)
2. Ananthakrishnan ( Kavitha Thangavelu)
3. Deva Ramasamy ( Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
4. Gayatri Gopalan (Narayanasamy Subramanian)
5. Gunasekar Jeevarathnam (Anand Gurumurthy)
6. Illavarasan SADAYAPPAN (Sridharan Minor)
7. Kannan Shanmugam (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
8. Lakshmi Santhamorthy (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
9. Maha Sengottaiyan (Kavitha Thangavelu)
10. Maheshkumar H Rangaswamy (Vijaykumar Duraikannu)
11. Naveen Venugopal (Kavitha Thangavelu)
12. Ravi Kumar (Rammohan Krishnan)
13. Ray Vrudhula ( Rammohan Krishnan)
14. Saravanan Agasaveeran (Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran)
15. Sathish Kumar Palaniappan ( Murali Subbu)
16. Seetharaman Venkataramana (Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
17. senthil Ranganathan (Kavitha Thangavelu)
18. Sethuraman Rao ( Karunakaran Palanisamy)
19. Sivakumar Veerappan ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
20. Subbu Ganesan (Narayanasamy Subramanian)
21. Subramanian Venkateswaran ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
22. Sundar Karuppusamy ( Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)
23. Venkata Sathya Gupta Gonugunta (Rajendran Murugapadayachi)
24. Viswanathan Sahadevan (Jeyasankarane, Ragouvaran)

2004 Batch

1. Arun Ganesan ( Arun Ganesan)
2. Babuji Ambikapathy ( Raj Subbiah)
3. Balajee Seshadri ( Murali)
4. Ganesh Thambiran ( Ramesh Kuppuswamy)
5. Immanuel Pachaiyappan ( Lakshmi Santhamorthy)
6. Kirubakaran Pakkirisamy ( Ramesh Kuppuswamy)
7. Pichappan Pethachi ( Krishnaraj Pandurangan)
8. Rajendran P ( Krishnaraj Pandurangan)
9. Rajesh and Priya ( Kavitha Balasubramanian)
10. Ramesh Babu Balan ( Arun Muthukumar)
11. Rasappa Palaniappan ( Sakthi Senthil)
12. Sam Shanmugan ( Sakthi Senthil)
13. Saravanan3 ( Arun Ganesan)
14. Shanmuga Sundaram ( Sugeerthi Loganathan)
15. Shyam Nagarajan ( Arun Muthukumar)
16. Yuvaraj Arumugam (Sakthi Senthil)

TEAM Project Selection Members list- TEAM CHAPTER -02

1. Vijay Radhakrishnan Hariharan Sivakumar
2. Sudha Rajaprabakaran Uma Subramaniam
3. Banu Nathan & Swaminathan Nathan Lakshmi Venkateswaran
4. Shafi Syed Govindaraj Haridass (Manish
5. Saravanan Murugaiah Nirmala Balakrishnan
6. Kannan Sivanesan Karmugilan Rajangam
7. Kannakumar Kittusamy Latha Kandy
8. Nalini Hariharan Sivakumar
9. Duraisamy Gopalsamy Balaji Vasan
10. Radhika Ravikumar Sumathi RamkiNatesan
11. Mohan Babu Vidya Ganesan
12. Banu Chander Vidya Ganesan
13. Gajapathi Kannan Raghu Raman
14. Arun Raj Manish S
15. Vijayanand Jayaraman Karmugilan Rajangam
16. Selvakumar Eakabaram Hariharan Sivakumar

8:53PM Cultural Continued.

9:50PM Vote of Thanks:

Govindaraj Ramakrishan Requested sorry for the delay that occurred in the beginning of the meeting. He thanked chief guest, team members, friends, parents and kids for attending the TEAM meeting.

9:55PM National Anthem:

Everyone dispersed after singing the Indian national anthem, proudly!

Together we made it happen !!!!

Warm Regards,

Lakshmi Sudha Duraiswamy and TEAM News Group

Date/Day: : Saturday, October 02, 2004

Time: : 2pm to 4pm

Place : Community meeting room, Normal Public Library, Normal,IL

Dear TEAM,

1. • Deepa Chelladurai
   • Ramesh Janarthanan
   • Babu Thangaraj

2. Welcome address by compere (Balaguru Paramasivan)
3. Prayer Song by all
4. TEAM updates from last quarter by Senthil Shanmugam
5. 2004 new members (2) talk
6. 1st quarter selected members project experience
7. Question and Answer -By Senthil
8. 2004 4th quarter (Oct, Nov, and Dec) members selection for project execution – by Vijay Radhakrishanan and Vijay Balasundram

Selected Members:

9. Vote of Thanks
10. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date/Day: : Saturday, June 26, 2004

Time: : 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Place : Community meeting room, Normal Public Library, Normal

Dear TEAM,

1. Welcome address by compere – Radhika.
2. Prayer Song (Vandae Madaram) by Hamsika.
3. TEAM updates from last quarter – Senthil gave an update on TEAM’s activities from the last quarter.
4. School Selection and Project Execution Procedures – Sugum Subbarayan explained the procedures for excuting projects.
5. Video Display – Video prepared by TEAM film division was screened. Also, we show some picutes on the already executed projects.
6. Question and Answer by Senthil
7. 2004 2nd & 3rd quarter members selection for project execution – Lead by Vijay Radhakrishanan and Vijay Balasundram – TEAM selected six members for the 2nd & 3rd Quarter of year 2004. They are:
   • Radhika Jayaraman
   • Babitha Pelluru
   • 3. Meenakshi Sundareswari
   • 4. Sureshbabu Gajendran
   • 5. Raja Chandrasekaran
   • 6. Balaji Rengarajan
8. Vote of Thanks – by Kasturi Santanam
9. National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

Date            : March 13th, 2004, Saturday

Time            : 6 PM to 10 PM

Place           : Community Center,

                            201 S Rengstroff Ave

                            Mountain View, CA - 94039

# People attended        : 300+    

Compered By        : Sangeetha Sampath

Welcome Song By      : Nila and Preethi (Daughters of Siva and Rajasekar)

School Selection        : Sakthi and Govind

# Schools Selected         : 52

Total Money distributed: $26,000

Total Indian Money   : 11.7 Lakhs

2000 Selected Members: 

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Anbu Gounder  ( Kandasamy Nachimuthu )

2) Aravind Kumar Ponnusamy ( Elavarasu Arumugam)

3) ChandraSekar Appachiyannan ( Ilangovel Thulasimani )

4) Kuppusamy Ramasamy (Prabhu Palanisamy)

5) Mathi Ganesh (Rajkumar Thangavelu)

6) Ramesh Ramalingam (Kandasamy Nachimuthu)

7) Siva Nallaswamy ( Kumar Saravanakumar)

  Sivakumar Rathinavelumani ( Prabhu Palanisamy)

2001 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Arun Muthukumar (Senthil KS & Kanchana)

2) Gomathy Chinnayan (Ravikumar Subbarayan) 

3) HajaPeer Adaiya (Karthik Somasundaram)

4) Hemalatha Sivakumar (Ramki Natesan)

5) Karunakaran Palanisamy (Karthis S Ramasamy)

6) Radha Bala ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)

7) Raman ( Udaya Baskar Nachimuthu)

  Sankaran Raman (Senthil KS & Kanchana)

2002 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Natarajan Srinivasan ( Karuppusamy Muniyappan) 

2) Sakthivel (Jagannathan Radhakrishnan)

3) Inbasekar (Saravanan Nagarajan)

4) Palanisami (Devi Prasad)

5) Shanthi Bala (Palanisamy Manickampathy)

6) Manish Satyanarayana (Sudha GanapathiKrishanan)

7) Brindhadevi (Saravanan Nagarajan)

  Karthikeyan Swaminathan (Saravanan Nagarajan)

2003 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Ananth Subramaniam (Anbu Gounder)

2) Appasamy Srihari ( Rajendram Murugapadayachi)

3) Baluswamy (Sangeetha Suresh Kumar)

4) C.M. Venkatesh ( Vijayakumar Duraikannu)

5) Jayalalitha Pallatdaka  (Anbu Gounder)

6) Kamala Srinivasan (Prema Ramasamy)

7) Krishna Prasad (Varadharajan Rengaswamy)

  Laxman Naik (Anbu Gounder)

9) Ram Kaomati (Rammohan Krishnan )

10) Ramu Chidambaram (Muralidharan Subbarayalu)

11) Senthil Kumar Kanniyappan (Muralidharan Subbarayalu)

12) Thiyagarajan Balasubramaniam (Prema Ramasamy)

2004 Selected Members:

Member Name (Coordinator Name)

1) Appan Ananmalai (Ramu Chidambaram)

2) Lzxman (Umarani Lakshman)

3) Muthusamy Swami (Raj Subbiah )

4) Sangeetha Sampath ( Selvi sundaram)

5) Ramasamy Kuppusamy ( Ramu Chidambaram)

6) Saranavan (Arun Ganesan)

7) Selvi Sundaram ( Selvi sundaram)

  Senthil (Viswanath Raghavan)

9) Arumugam Ramasamy (Govindaraj Haridass)

10)Gurusankar Sankararaman (Meenakumar Vaikundam)

11)Kalyani Rajaraman (Meenakumar Vaikundam)

12)Lakshmi Sudha Duraiswamy (Sudha Moorthy)

13)Ravi Sivaramakrishnan (Ganesan Subramanian)

14)Selvi (Raghunathan Raman)

15)Subramanian Kumaresapillai (Devarajan Kaladipet)

16)Tito Thomas (Balaji Vaasan)

1) Welcome Address: Shivakumar Jayaraman 

He welcomed all TEAM Members, Parents and Friends to the TEAM Meet. He 

mentioned that he is a new member for TEAM and pointed out that 

reasonable amount of crowd are new members. He shared his good thoughts about 

TEAM which inspired him to join TEAM. 

2) TEAM History: Sudhakar Sukumar 

He talked about TEAM History. He mentioned that in the year 2000, when 

about 10 people were talking casually and that lead to a thought of 

forming TEAM.

3) TEAM Selection and Project Execution: Udaykumar

He gave a clear and crisp explanation about school selection and 

execution process to new team members.

4) Project Execution Experience Sharing by Dhanasekaran 

He shared his project experience. He visited a school in his village 

with no basic facilities. When he talked HM of that school, they 

requested a big list of items. Then he processed on that list and selected few 

essential items for immediate needs. The requirement processing time 

took long time. Overall process while executing this project went well 

and didn't face any problems. He thanked all TEAM members for their 

support.

5) New Member Speech: Shankar Narayanan 

He mentioned that he joined TEAM recently. He was eager to help others. 

At that time, he came to know about TEAM through Ramesh and 

Chithambaram (From Napa Valley). He was impressed about TEAM activities and he 

decided to join TEAM.

6) Chief Guest Introduction: Anand Gurumurthy 

He gave a very good introduction about Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar to 

other TEAM members and welcomed him to share some comments about TEAM.

7) Chief Guest - K.B. Chandrasekar speech

* He mentioned that he studied in Mythraeyi corporation school in 

Trichy.

* He is been here in US for 14 years.

* He is a Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jamcracker.

* Proud of TEAM and appreciated for helping schools in India.

* He pointed out that TEAM is working as a Co-operative model and not a 

organizational model. TEAM is successful because of people's 

dedication.

* He suggested starting TEAM in each village in India. By this way TEAM 

can generate lot of money in each villages and can help every school in 

that village.

* He hopes together we can make India as Super Economic Power in this 

world.

* India is not having enough resources. So, he pointed out education in 

India is very important at this stage.

* He also hopes that by 2025 India's 40% of exports can be from 

intellectual knowledge.

* He asked TEAM members, when they are visiting India, talk to students 

and encourage them to achieve some thing and do some thing for our 

country.

* He agreed to help TEAM in promoting a school if TEAM comes up with a 

good plan !!! Thanks to him !!!

* He also agreed to be TEAM's Advisory Board Member!! Thanks to him !!!

* Kid Varsha presented a memento to Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar.

  Q & A by Karthikeyan Eswaramoorthy

a) What is TEAM's Achievement?

* TEAM is a working model and cooperative model.

* Every TEAM member's effort is there in success of TEAM

* So far, 300 schools got benefited and more schools will be benefited 

in future.

b) What we are planning to achieve next?

* Right now 300 schools got benefited, i.e. 200 students from each 

school, total of 60,000 students got benefited.

* In future, we continue to work together like this, 6 lakhs students 

may get these benefits or may be 60 Lakhs or even 6 Crores. No wonder, 

even if 60 Crores of student may get these benefits.

* He requested to all TEAM members to bring more members to TEAM.

b) What is a Chapter?

Chapter is internal TEAM Management structure. It is just for easy 

management.

c) What is India TEAM?

* TEAM member who went back to India, they adopted a school as model 

school.

* If a TEAM member got selected for a project execution and unable to 

decide a school or what are things we can donate, they can contact India 

TEAM for more information. India TEAM will take them to this model 

school and give some ideas.

d) How people from different Indian state can make contribution to TEAM 

Activities?

* Language doesn't matter. Any one can join TEAM.

* People from a state can be under one Chapter.

* By this, we can expand TEAM through India and more students will get 

benefited.

e) If people are moving to India, how they can contribute to TEAM?

* Some people donate more amounts before they leave to India.

* Some people used to join India TEAM and help in executing TEAM 

projects.

f) Does TEAM have any plan to expand its support to Hospitals in India?

* TEAM doesn't have current plans to help Hospitals.

* May be in future, as TEAM expands.

g) What is plan for promoting TEAM?

* We proved ourselves.

* People executing projects in India, made created awareness about 

TEAM.

h) What is TPC?

* TPC - TEAM Policy Code is a manual.

* This manual will be released soon.

* If any one have a question about school selection process or 

execution process or any information they want, they can referrer this manual. 

i) Does a TEAM member follow-up with schools, which he/she has donated?

* Chief Guest K.B. Chandrasekar pointed out this and asked TEAM members 

to follow-up with schools.

* This will be helpful, if a school needs more help or school is happy 

with that project.

* Karthi requested TEAM members to follow-up with schools when they are 

visiting India.

j) Why TEAM is so special?

* TEAM not only purifies the mind and thought of its members.

* It also purifies the mind and thought of its family here and back 

home. 

* This will expand and one day it will purify the whole society with 

its noble thought and cause. 

* Practical example is, before when Karthi visits India, if some school 

teacher comes for donation his dad will ask him to hide so that they 

need not donate any money. 

* When Karthi got a chance to execute a project with help from his 

father, his father understood the noble cause of helping poor school, it 

got lot if respect for him among the public. Now his father is also 

inspired by TEAM's activities.

* One time, money given by Karthi to execute a project was not enough. 

So his father invested his own money and completed that project 

successfully. This shows how his father is inspired by TEAM's noble work. 

* Like this, many people are coming forward and joining TEAM and they 

are getting inspired by TEAM's activities.

9) Hundi was circulated to TEAM members to collect money for that 

meeting expenditure.

10) TEAM Film Division projected an excellent TEAM Video. 

Project Video was displayed - organized by Thulasi

Video compiled by Sridhar - Excellent One. 

* It projected the inspiring thought of TEAM coordinators. 

* It projected the new member's inspirations towards TEAM. 

* It projected the thankful and thoughtful speech by a school teacher 

who's school got benefited by TEAM. 

* It was really Excellent !!! Hats-off to TEAM Film Division !!!

11) Pot Luck Dinner - Organized by Chitrabanu, Deepa and Food 

Coordinators.

o Sudha G, Chitrabanu and Deepa worked together in food assignments.

o All Food Coordinators collected all foods from TEAM members and Food 

arrangements was really excellent.

o Food course consists of Idli, Chutney, Sambar, Veg Palav, Variety 

Rice and desserts.

o Excellent food and mouth-watering dishes.

o Hats-Off to all TEAM Members, who prepared all these delicious items.

o Hats-Off to Food Coordinators.

12) Singing Programme:

Organized by        : Sridharan Minor

Compered by        : Rajan

Krishna         : Flute

Sridhar         : Tabla

Keyboard            : Siva, Sridhar, Karunakaran

Drums:          : Siva, Rajan

Audio Setup         : Thulasi. 

Lights          : TEAM Volunteers

* Rajan started with Mimicry.

* He talked like Kamal, Mammutti, "Poornam" Viswanathan, Janakaraj, 

Charuhaasan, "Loose" Mohan, Karthik, M.N. Nambiyar

* Rajan welcomed singers in Bharathi Raaja's voice.

* Four Kids came to stage and started with a song - "Kaakai 

Siraginiley" - Beautiful.

* Gokul and Co - Wonderful Gana Song

* Rajan now welcomed singers in Rajni's voice.

* Gayathri and Sudha G - "Asaiya Kathula Thoothu vittu" - Wonderful 

Performance.

* Lot of kids liked this song and started dancing in front of that 

stage. Cute, Cute, Cute !

* Karunakaran - Folk Song of "Pushpavanam" Kupuswamy.

* Sudha G and Raja - "Andiyila vaanam"

* Sruthi, Sudha G, Raja and Gayathri - "Sithada Kattikittu"

* Now, Guys also started dancing along with kids. That was a real fun.

* Gopal Kumarappan was dancing in front of that stage, called for more 

members to come forward and dance.

* Sridhar - "Thaga Thaga venu ..." - A Song sung by K.B. Sundharambal.

* Sridhar mimicked this song in different actor's voice. Tough one. He 

did it excellent. Hats-Off to Sridhar.

* Then he sung original song in K.B. Sundharambal's voice.

13) Vote of Thanks:        Hariharan Shankara

o Thanked all TEAM Members

o Thanked all the people who reserved the Hall.

o Thanked all the people who did food arrangement.

o Thanked all the people who did school selection.

o Thanked all the speakers and compere.

o Thanked people who arranged the FUN Event.

o Thanked all the people who brought food.

o Thanked parents from India.

o Thanked other friends who came to the meeting.

o Thanked people who arranged and managed audio & video.

o Thanked Chief Guest.

14) National Anthem

General Notes:

* Hall Arrangement was very well coordinated by Dhivakar and his troop. 

* They worked hard from 4 PM to 10 PM !!! Excellent Job !! Hats Off to 

them !!!!

* Excellent Presentation of TEAM Achievements and Word of Thanks were 

presented in the background when School Selection was in progress.

* TEAM Promotion Division sold lot of TEAM T-Shirts during the meet and 

displayed TEAM Posters !!

* It motivated New members and Friends who came to the meet !!! Great 

Job !!!

* Meeting was very well organized by Sudhakar Sukumar.

* He worked with different people to keep this meeting Agenda intact. 

Excellent Work !!

                    *** SUBHAM ***

Cheers !!

TEAM News Group

Date:   03/07/2004 (Sunday)
Meeting Name: TEAM Meeting – Bloomington