4 Mar 2010: Two Models of VAP and their Pilot Projects

Pilot Project of the Second model of VAP: VR1 Student Committees from NIT Warangal, Kakatiya medical college and Kakatiya University have decided to initiate the 2nd model of the pilot project of VAP during the VR1 meeting held on 3 mar 2010 at Warangal. This second model of VAP follows a different approach as explained below:

Here, the student committees have decided to adopt the entire district of Warangal including around 1100 villages under it, at once. The committees have also decided to begin the project on 1 May 2010. The entire funding required for this project will be provided by VR1forever Trust. We must applaud this bold step of the students and stand by them and support them to make this insightful project a grand success! For pictures and more of the meeting, please see Main Page>Features>Gallery

Pilot Project of the First Model of VAP: The approach of the first model varies from the second model. Here, adoption begins with a village at first, then spreads to include one by one the rest of the villages in the respective mandal. Later, all the mandals in the respective district are adopted one after the other. Students Committees in charge have decided to begin the first model on 1 May 2010. The pilot project of the first model is detailed below.

There are three main regions in the state of Andhra Pradesh –Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema. One mandal has been chosen from each of these. Our project begins with one village and then spreads to encompass the entire mandal in a step by step approach.

The details of the mandals are as follows:

1. In Telangana region

District – Khammam (district code 22)

Mandal – Mudigonda (mandal code 41)

No. of villages – 23

First village to be adopted – Banapuram (village code 18)

2. In Andhra region

District – Krishna (district code 6)

Mandal – Nagayalanka (mandal code 35)

No. of villages – 11

First village to be adopted – Edurumondi (village code 11)

3. In Rayalaseema region

District – Chittoor (district code 10)

Mandal – Chandragiri (mandal code 28)

No. of villages – 23

First village to be adopted – Panapakam (village code

4 Mar 2010: Contraptions Project on 14 Mar 2010!

VR1 is glad to announce that the Contraptions Project will be conducted on 14 Mar 2010, initially across more than 30 centers in the state! It is a huge event for which more than 2500 VR1 Members are being trained from several engineering colleges all over the country including IITs, BITS, NITs, JNTU, Osmania University, Andhra University, GITAMS etc. They in turn will train around 12,500 to 15,000 school children in Contraptions! This project will be further extended to over 100 centers!

3 March 2010: Chairman and Directors of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions honor VR1 and Mr.SVK!

Dr. B S Rao, Chairman of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions and the Directors of Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools- Ms. Seema and Mr. Sri Charan, are pleased to announce that they would like to honor Mr.SVK, in recognition for his service in Techno Schools. They are extrememly glad to donate computers of worth 2 Lakh rupees to VR1 at Mr. SVK's request when he refused all personal honors! Three cheers to the Chairman and Directors of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions!

2 Mar 2010: VR1 teams meet at Vizag.

VR1 teams from JNTU, GITAMS, Andhra University and Gayatri Engineering College meet in Vizag to discuss a national level project. Earlier, similar meetings were held in Hyderabad on 10 Feb 2010 where teams from over 30 colleges had gathered to discuss the feasibility of several operations.

1 Mar 2010: VR1 celebrates an Eco-friendly Holi!

In order to generate awareness and encourage people to celebrate an eco-friendly Holi, VR1 has taken the initiative to lead by example through the celebration of an eco-friendly Holi with the children at VR1 HOME! VR1 has chosen to address the environmental issues concerned with Holi by adopting more natural ways of celebrating Holi. First, the colors used by the children and volunteers at VR1 HOME are natural colors made from vegetables and fruit pulp. Second, VR1 strongly discourages wasteful use of water when several areas across India face such acute, severe scarcity of water. Third, using waste material for bonfires rather than wood and also, resorting to a single bonfire in the community rather than several ones at each home.

VR1 urges everyone to de-pollute Holi and wishes one and all the joyous celebration of an Eco-friendly Holi!

1 March 2010: Congratulations to the winners of ISP Question 2!

And there's more! Exclusive scholarships for ISP Supporters too have been announced! All the winners have won a scholarship of Rs500/- each!! The winners among ISP Members are 1) Saurabh Kumar, IIT Kanpur  2) Sudheer, KLU  3) Anusha, JNTU Vizianagaram  4)Dipanita Pati, NIT Warangal  5) G.Raja Sekhar, PVPSIT  6)T Deepthi, IIT Hyderabad  7) Rakesh, AU  8) Murali Krishna, BITS Pilani  9) R D Chinmayanand Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad  10) Shashank, IIT Madras  11) Rakesh, INDRA REDDY College of Engineering  12) Tharun, CMR  13) Mahesh, BITS Goa  14) Ramesh Narayana 15) Venkatesh, SASI College of Engineering  16) Anjani Kumar, ISI  17) Eswar Rao, NIT Suratkal  18) Sai Teja, IIST  19) Nitin, LBRCE  20) Sri Satya, GSL Medical College  21) A Sowmya, Gandhi Medical College  22) M Nagamani, JNTU Kakinada. The winners among ISP Supporters are 1) Chakradhar, IIT Kharagpur  2) Varun Reddy, IIT Bombay  3) Rishik, GITAMS. Congratulations to all the winners!

Question: Which of the following takes priority for a long-lasting, happy relationship?

A) Love

B) Trust

C) Selflessness

Answer: B) TRUST

Explanation: For a long-lasting happy relationship, trust takes priority. A relationship with love but no trust cannot sustain love for a longer duration. A relationship with selflessness and no trust is more of a responsibility and may not contain the element of happiness. Hence Trust takes priority over love and selflessness for a long-lasting, happy relationship.

16 Feb 2010: Completion of CAP Admissions for the first batch.

CAP Admissions at VR1 HOME, Vijayawada for the first batch of 25 have been completed. For details of CAP, please see Main Menu>Programs>CAP

15 Feb 2010: Congratulations to the winners of ISP Question1!

And there's more! Exclusive scholarships for ISP Supporters too have been announced! All the winners have won a scholarship of Rs500/- each!! The winners among ISP Members are 1)Shaleem Mathur, ISM Dhanbad 2)Ankit Bansal, IIT Kanpur 3)Bharath Reddy, IIT Patna 4)Akhil Kumar A, IIT Bombay 5)Ashok, IIT Hyderabad 6)Abhimanyu Dixit, IIT Kharagpur 7)G H Harika, MGIT 8)Madhan, CBIT 9)Ramesh, OU 10)TVK, IIITH 11)Sarat, GVPCE 12)M Siva Gowtham, KLU 13)Lava Kumar, GSL medical college. The winners among ISP Supporters are 1) Vamsi, GITAMS 2) Narendra, IIT Kharagpur 3) Ramu, LORDS Hyderabad. Congratulations to all members!

Question: When a person takes up a task, he should give priority to the completion of the task

A) With in a time frame

B) With quality

C) With creativity

Answer: A) With in a time frame

Explanation: When a task is taken up, time is the most important criterion in consideration. This principle is accepted world wide. A task has to be planned to be completed in a time frame and then, one should work to achieve the greatest possible quality and creativity with in the set time frame. Many ventures failed to become a success precisely because priority was not given to time!

12 Feb 2010: ISP expands rapidly!

VR1 is glad to update that ISP has expanded to several colleges all over India including IIT Patna, IIT Bombay, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, GSL Medical College and over 80 other colleges in Andhra Pradesh like GITAM, CBIT, MGIT, KLU etc. Congratulations to all the ISP Members!!

10 FEB: VR1 discusses a prestigious national project!

VR1 teams have planned to initiate a prestigious national level project soon. Meetings are being held in several cities like Hyderabad, Vizag and Warangal etc in order to discuss the feasibility of the operations involved. Over 130 engineers from more than 30 colleges gathered in Hyderabad today for one such meeting. Similar meetings have been scheduled in other cities as well.

4 Feb 2010: Commencing the Pilot Project of ISP!

VR1 is happy to announce that the pilot project of ISP has begun today at ISM, Dhanbad on the recommendation of Aditya and Varun. The project will expand to include other colleges. VR1 congratulates all the ISPS-Supporters and ISPM-Members! Let all of us together make ISP a huge success!

1 Feb 2010: Announcement of local contact numbers for ISP.

Local contact numbers for ISP have been announced to all the ISP members through the ISP Supporters in their respective colleges and areas. For details about the ISP contact numbers in your area, please send a SMS to 0 8008 8008 01 along with your details: Name, Mobile number, College and Place.

26 Jan 2010: Commencing the Pilot Project of CAP!

The pilot project of CAP has begun at VR1 HOME in Vijayawada, adopting children under the 3 categories of orphans, semi-orphans and low socio-economic status. The profiles and pictures of the children adopted can be viewed on the website!

20 Jan 2010: Over 200 enrolled in 'Fluency in Spoken English' Classes!

Classes to develop fluency in spoken English which have begun at VR1 HOME from 4 Jan 2010 are running successfully! Over 200 people of varying age groups - students, home makers, employees, grandparents etc - are attending these classes! New batches will continue to be enrolled at regular intervals.

6 Jan 2010: Dr.KKR honors VR1 and Mr.SVK!

Dr.KKR wishes to honor Mr.SVK, academician and also the founder of VR1, in recognition of his work in the field of Counseling and Career Guidance at Dr.KKR's campuses. However, Mr.SVK kindly refused all personal honors and requested Dr.KKR to contribute the rewards to the VR1 organization. Dr.KKR is highly pleased to do the same and has graciously donated a sum of one lakh rupees to VR1! Three cheers to Dr.KKR!

4 Jan 2010: Commencing 'Fluency in Spoken English' Classes!

Classes to develop fluency in spoken English have begun at VR1 HOME. New batches will continue to be enrolled at regular intervals.

3 Jan 2010: Conclusion of Workshop on Right attitudes at VR1 HOME.

The workshop on Right Attitudes for parents and children was concluded today. Parents expressed immense joy on observing their children taking up responsibilities and completing them. Parents also noticed some changes they had to make with in themselves in order to allow their kids to bloom naturally and to the best of their abilities.

1 Jan 2010: Commencing the Workshop on Right attitudes.

This workshop has commenced at VR1 HOME, Vijayawada. Parents from around 150 families were counseled and enlightened on how to inculcate values and highly effective habits in children. Also, their children were motivated and counseled to imbibe these habits.

1 Jan 2010: Celebrations of the First Anniversary of VR1!

VR1 with members from several engineering, medical and other colleges across India celebrate the First Anniversary of VR1 with great joy at VR1 HOME, Vijayawada! The progress of VR1 was reviewed and members re-committed themselves to become SITIZENS! (Sitizen with social responsibility)

1 Jan 2010: A song from a VR1 member...We invite more....

VR1 has given an opportunity to students from GITAM University in order to realize their dreams by supporting, funding and staging a platform for the making of a song! VR1 has now spread the song directly to students from over 1000 colleges overnight! VR1 invites more students to come forward and let your talents shine! VR1 is here to support you and expose your talents to over one lakh students overnight!

VR1 encourages students to spread right attitudes in the society with their talent.

31 Dec 2009: The concept of VR1 spreads to over 200 families in the locality!

Over 200 families in the locality of VR1 HOME were highly inspired by the mission of VR1! The young and old alike began to contemplate on their social responsibility after the meeting. Every family was inspired to see VR1 Members from all over the country aged 16-22 years gather at VR1 HOME on a mission to Be Effective, Become Powerful and Make the World Wonderful!

31 Dec 2009: VR1 concludes quiz finals for 150 families!

VR1's team led by IIT Madras successfully conducted the final quiz competition for over 150 families. All the participants were extremely happy and thanked VR1'steams for their efforts.

27 Dec 2009: VR1 initiates Quiz Competitions for 150 families!

VR1 members from several IITs, NITs, BITS, other engineering colleges and Medicos too, conduct quizzes for 150 families! The quizzes were designed to bring about health awareness, societal awareness, to develop interpersonal skills and right attitudes amidst the other questions centered on general awareness.

24 Dec 2009: Conclusion of the Workshop on 'C' Programming.

VR1's team from IIIT concluded the workshop today after consolidating the material taught. The workshop was attended by students from IITs, BITS, NITs and other engineering colleges! The workshop was a tremendous success! For pictures and more, please see - Home page>Features>Gallery

22 Dec 2009: VR1 spreads it wings!

VR1 members from IITs, NITs, BITS and other professional colleges address around 3000 students in a day! The gathering was highly inspired by the goals and vision of VR1.Every student at the gathering became a proud member of VR1 on the same day, thus taking VR1 a step closer to its mission of making the world 'One Happy Home'!

20 Dec 2010: Conclusion of the Project Management Workshop.

The Project Management Workshop was successfully concluded. To have a look at how VR1’s team from IIT, Mumbai equips students with essential management mantras, please visit the Gallery!

15 Dec 2010: Workshop on 'C' Programming begins!

The workshop on 'C' Programming has commenced today at VR1 HOME. VR1's team from IIIT Hyderabad, which is highly acclaimed for its courses in Computer Sciences, conducted the workshop. The team was led by Rahul and assisted by Vasanth, Rajiv and Harish. The workshop was attended by students from IITs, BITS, NITs and other engineering colleges! VR1 is conducting a 'C' Programming lab every afternoon, after the lectures in the morning. This helped students practice, revise and retain the day's work! For pictures and more, please see - Home page>Features>Gallery

15 Dec 2010: Workshop on Project Management commences!

The Project management Workshop was launched today. A VR1 member from IIT Mumbai, Ravi Teja, led the workshop, explaining the principles of project management to several students from IITs, BITS, NITs and medical colleges. Building a team, working for a common cause, accomplishing set-goals, attitudes that help one to scale the heights of success etc.., VR1 inculcates these towering techniques & qualities among its members through the Project Management Workshop.

10 Dec 2010: Workshop on Hardware commences!

VR1's Hardware Workshop was launched today at VR1 Home. How a computer works and the related practical labs in Hardware are being conducted. VR1 conducted this workshop free of any cost, for the empowerment of youth under Project KIT (Knowledge Integration and Transfer). This workshop will be continued to cater to the needs of several students from colleges near by.

5 Dec 2010: Commencing the Workshop on Database Management!

Workshop on Principles of Database Management System has commenced today at VR1 HOME. It has received a very good feedback from the students.

17 Nov 2009: Allotment of dedicated local phone numbers for ISP

VR1 has started allotment of dedicated local phone numbers for ISP, covering all states across the country. There are no STD or Contest charges on the SMS, as our endeavor is to support the students in every way possible. Registrations for ISP will commence from Dec 15 2009.

14 Nov 2009: The First VR1 HOME Premises

VR1 has acquired the first VR1 HOME premises. The operations will commence here on 1 Dec 2009. The administrative affairs and various activities of VR1 like workshops, forums etc, will be carried out here. These premises will also be the platform for discussions on planning and execution of VR1's All India programs.

5 Nov 2009: Another VR1 Office in Vijayawada

A well-equipped office has been started to carry out all the works related to VR1 website, including the creatives, content development, and software. Vijayawada continues to remain hub of all VR1 operations and soon two more offices will be operational in the city.

Oct 2009: VR1 enters into an association for its website

VR1 has associated with Rackspace, Vimeo and Joomla to execute its website. While Rackspace is globally renowned in web designing, Joomla is the world’s best Content Management System! Through Vimeo, the visitors of our site can watch best quality videos!

Oct 2009: The strength of VR1 grows rapidly!

The total number of VR1 members has reached 30,000.

11 October 2009: National Memory Championship Event

The National Memory Council of India (NMCI) conducted the first Memory Championship Competition in India and the largest in the wolrld ever at Hitex in Hyderabad on 11 Oct 2009! More than 1,500 students competed for the memory champion title. The top 10 winners will represent India in the World Memory Championship competition to be held in UK in Nov 09.

VR1forever had the privilege of organizing an event of this magnitude. Over 150 VR1 students from different colleges across AP (BITs, IIT, NIT, GITAM, and JNTU) formed the organizing committee. These students were provided requisite training with transportation and accommodation. They organized the event from  the inauguration in the beginning to the valedictory in the end, taking care of everything including crowd management, registration of participants, test administration, evaluation of 15000 papers in 6 hours by a team of 40 VR1 volunteers, certificate distribution and data entry!The meticulous team work and commitment of VR1 members made the event a huge success and won laurels from over 3000 people who attended the event including the Chief Guest of the day, IT Commissioner, Mr.Bhaskar Reddy.  Sq Leader Jayasimha, a triple Guinness Book Record holder in Memory Championships, presented a memento to the VR1 team.

July 2009: The strength of VR1

The total number of VR1forever members reaches 20,000

15 March 2009: The strength of VR1

The total number of VR1forever members has reaches 10,000

March 2009: VR1's Robotics Project 2009

VR1's Robotics Project 2009 was a magnanimous event conducted across the state of AP, in 9 locations involving 4000 school children and 300 students from more than 75 colleges, including BITs, IIT, NIT, GITAM Vizag, JNTU Vizainagaram etc. While the students of NIT Warangal headed the project, the entire event was completely organized by students under the guidance of Mr.SVK, founder of VR1forever.

Scholarships for the students who coordinated the project ranged from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 25,000 based on their level of involvement in the project!

This pilot project was based on the principle of Win -Win - Win

• The school students learnt how to make a robot ,boosting their knowledge and creative levels
• The college students came together onto a single platform to organize the event. They practically applied communication, managerial, team work and leadership abilities in this process
• VR1forever has achieved its objective of Knowledge Sharing

Starting Feb 10th 2009: Distribution of Literature

Literature that explains the concept of VR1forever was printed and distributed across several colleges in India. The booklets were sponsored by various colleges in huge numbers.

15,000 booklets - sponsored by the students of IITs across the country
12,500 booklets - sponsored by GSL Medical College, Rajahmundry in memory of a beloved student, Late Pothala Hari Krishna
5,000 bookelts - sponsored by other medical colleges
More than 20,000 booklets - sponsored by various other colleges

1 Jan 2009: VR1's Office for strategic planning, development and research

VR1's first office started functioning in Vijayawada. The activities that are being held here are strategic planning, development and research of VR1 programs. A well-stocked library has been dedicated to be used by VR1 members.

1 Jan 2009: VR1forever is officially launched!

The website www.vr1forever.org was launched by Shanti, a 6 year old girl from GIRL orphanage in Vijayawada, on 1 Jan 2009 at 5 p.m.

29 Dec 2008: VR1forever is officially registered!

The concept and memorandum of VR1forever was officially registered on 29 Dec 2008 in the name of VR1 forever Charitable Trust.

Dec 2007- Dec 2008: Introduction of the concept of VR1 to students and pooling of opinions from various sections

The concept of VR1forever has roots which date back to 25 years! After constant research and findings from various countries, VR1forever has taken shape in 2007. As the programs of VR1 forever are centered on the Youth, we had introduced the concept of VR1 for the first time to a set of students in 2007. These students have now formed VR1's core committee! This core committee has discussed extensively about the framework of VR1 and its various programs. After this, the core committee went on to discuss the concept of VR1forever with different sections of the society like students, working professionals, philanthropists, parents, senior citizens etc, across the globe and finally submitted a detailed feedback about the framework of VR1.