Team Events

Team meet – Dec 17, 2005

Posted on Mar 23rd 2010 by Karthi Easwaramoorthy.

Date/Day: : Saturday, Dec 17, 2005

Time: : 10 am to Noon

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

Dear TEAM,

Welcome address by compere – Radhika.
Prayer Song (Vandae Madaram) by All
Completed/In progress Projects Updates – Balaguru
Selected Members’ Project experience
Finance updates / Dues – Sugum
Project Video (Pampagoundanpalayam School) and TEAM updates – Senthil
Question and Answer – Senthil
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:

Vote of Thanks
National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

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Team meet – May 07, 2005

Posted on Mar 23rd 2010 by Karthi Easwaramoorthy.

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,

Welcome address by compere – Bala
Prayer Song by all
TEAM updates by Senthil Shanmugam
TEAM members (2) talk
Selected Members’ Project experience
Question and Answer by Senthil Shanmugam
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:

Vote of Thanks
National Anthem by all

Thanks & Regards,
TEAM News Groups.

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Team meet – March 26, 2005

Posted on Mar 6th 2010 by Karthi Easwaramoorthy.

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

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,

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

Total TEAM projects so far done: 450
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 )