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Below is the list of CAT projects that were submitted to NPCC in 2004. Please feel free to contact us should you need further information about these activities.
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| Institution | Professor Basdeo Bissoondoyal College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | FISI Civic Action Team |
| Title | Improving cleanliness in classrooms at Form III level |
| Summary | The students often scribbled on walls and furniture for cheating, fun, as a protest or when they are bored. A lot of rubbish was found in the desks and some students even stuck their chewing gum underneath desks and chairs. To improve this situation, the civic action team arranged a weekly class on hygiene and cleanliness, sensitised the school through posters, talks and presentations and organised competitions among classes about cleanliness. |
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| Institution | Swami Sivananda State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Smart Civic Action Team SSSSS |
| Title | Poor quality of living in the classroom |
| Summary | The classrooms at the college looked overcrowded because of the furniture layout, floors were dirty, cleaning facilities were not available and there was a lack of shelves to keep bags. This poor environment affected the morale of students which reflected on their studies. To remedy this situation, the civic action team is proposing to have a sensitisation and promotion campaign of 5S at the college, to promote discipline in class, and to have screen savers on 5S on the computers in the computer lab. |
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| Region | Brisée Verdière |
| Institution | Windsor College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Rainbow Club Civic Action Team |
| Title | Students speak rudely to teachers, parents and peers |
| Summary | Students should be respectful towards their teachers as this attitude promotes a good atmosphere in the classroom and helps students learn and understand better the subjects being taught. But in the college it was observed that students behave badly with the teachers and there was a lack of respect. To alleviate this problem the civic action team has promoted interaction between teachers and pupils through posters and video clips showing the importance of courtesy and good manners. Extra curricular activities were also arranged to make learning more fun. |
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| Region | Chemin Grenier |
| Institution | Keats College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Jeunes de l'Avenir Junior Boys |
| Title | Damaging school properties is a muda |
| Summary | Students damage school property by breaking chairs, tables, taps and scribbling on walls, doors tables and toilets. In doing so, they waste their precious study time and the school management has to spend more money to repair the damage. These are forms of MUDA. To reduce this MUDA, les Jeunes de l'Avenir did a graffiti wall, organised competitions and activities so that students can show their creativity, and encouraged activities like sports, music and arts whenever students are free. |
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| Region | Chemin Grenier |
| Institution | Keats College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Guardians Civic Action Team |
| Title | Tutelage at Keats College |
| Summary | Newcomers at the college find it difficult to settle down in the new college because of a lack of discipline, the stress of higher education and other emotional and social problems. This civic action team is proposing to set up a 'Club des Marraines' which will guide the newcomers in their academic and social life at the college. Moreover, a database to monitor their absences and performances is also being envisaged. |
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| Region | Curepipe |
| Institution | Hindu Girls College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Vibes Civic Action Team |
| Title | Abuse of mobile phones during school hours |
| Summary | The use of mobile phones has soared in the recent years. This craze for mobile phones is worldwide. People use it to talk with parents and friends, send sms & emails, chat and take photos. These phones have become part and parcel of our daily life such that there is an excessive use of them at school. These phones divert the attention of students from the subjects being taught, leading to poor performance in class especially in the English language. The Vibes Civic Action Team has tried to reduce this excessive use by sensitising students by posters and putting screen savers on the computers at school. They adopted new rules for mobile phones to be switched off during school hours and to inform parents about these new rules. |
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| Region | Curepipe |
| Institution | Mauritius College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Lighting Civic Action Team |
| Title | The problem of theft in Mauritius College |
| Summary | Theft is a common problem in many schools. Some steal because they want to impress their peers. At college, money, stationeries, and personal objects like mobile phones are mostly stolen. This problem is aggravated by the bad influence of friends or by the wrong example of parents at home. This civic action team has tried to reduce this problem by having a sensitisation campaign through posters and by organizing a sketch on theft that was presented to all the college students. |
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| Region | Flacq |
| Institution | Rajcoomar Gujadhur Government School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Ideal and Revolutionary Civic Action Team |
| Title | Indiscipline in the morning and afternoon assembly |
| Summary | Indiscipline is a major concern at the Rajcoomar Gujadhur Government School especially during the morning and afternoon assembly as there are too many pupils for a small area and a lot of late comers. To remedy this situation, the civic action team has proposed to have a plan where each class will have a particular area where to stand during the morning and afternoon assembly. |
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| Region | Flacq |
| Institution | Sir Leckraz Teelock State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Cybersquad Civic Action Team |
| Title | Waste of time in the acquisition of information |
| Summary | A lot of bureaucracy namely paperwork concerning lateness forms, attendance cards, absence letters, students files, badly organized timetables and the mismanagement of files affect information handling in the school administration. As a solution to the problem, the setting up of a local area network (LAN) connecting the different departments of the college is being proposed. Moreover, it is also being envisaged to have a web site to disseminate information about the college. |
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| Region | La Tour Koenig |
| Institution | La Tour Koenig State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | LTK Fighters Civic Action Team |
| Title | Project on telemania |
| Summary | Television is entertaining, informative and educative. However, it has also its disadvantages like problems for the eyes, and youngsters watching films not suitable for their age thus having a bad influence on them. This civic action team is encouraging activities like sports, music, talks and debates to make students stay away from television and is pinpointing the importance of educative programmes. |
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| Region | Long Mountain |
| Institution | Byron College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | NeoByron.com Civic Action Team |
| Title | Lack of interest in studies |
| Summary | High rates of absenteeism and high rates of failure in exams show that students tend to lack interest in their studies because of personal, family, social and environmental problems. To remedy this situation, new teaching methods like group work, presentations and educational trips are being proposed. |
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| Region | Port Louis |
| Institution | Madad Ul Islam Girls's College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Meiyi Group |
| Title | Adolescent v/s sexuality |
| Summary | This theme was chosen to lay emphasis on misunderstanding and problems faced by adolescents towards sexuality due to their lack of information or excess of information, which may lead them towards dreadful consequences. Adolescence period is an important and critical period in a person's life, during which there is a craving for independence and peer group and the mass media easily influence them. Data collection was done by means of a survey whereby questionnaires were circulated round the island, both in towns and villages. The target group was people between 11-20. Chatting via the Internet also helped to get data. This problem has serious consequences like drug abuse and teenage pregnancy. The solution proposed is to have sex education at school and counseling by psychologist. On their part, members of the Meiyi Group will give talks to pupils of the lower forms during lunch time. |
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| Region | Port Louis |
| Institution | Unity College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Benevolent Team |
| Title | Wastage of time in the Biology Department |
| Summary | In the Biology Department, much time is wasted when parents come to see how well their children are doing and when either the teacher or the student is absent. Time is also being lost when the teacher has to explain more than once to low achievers, and the class becomes boring. In order to minimise these problems this team has proposed to create a web site bearing all notes for the syllabus and parents can contact the teacher via the Internet to know about their ward’s performance. |
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| Region | Port Louis |
| Institution | Muslim Girls College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Muda-busters Girlie Consultant |
| Title | Dilemma of choosing subjects by Form 3 and Upper Six students |
| Summary | Students at the age of 14 are sometimes not enough mature to know which subjects to take for their studies as at this age they have very vague ideas of what they want to be or do in the future. At the other hand, students in higher classes face the same problem of choice of subjects as they do not really know which career they want and whether the subjects they are choosing are appropriate or not. This civic action team has created a website to inform the students about the various subjects available at their college and what competencies are required for any particular subject and their job prospects. |
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| Region | Port Louis |
| Institution | London College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Atomix Civic Action Team |
| Title | How to strike a balance between studies and extracurricular activities |
| Summary | In secondary schools, students come to know about the vast array of subjects they can study or the sports activities that exists. They develop their personalities by becoming part of many peer groups. They go out with friends, participate in sports activities, and on top of all they have to study hard to get good scores at the exams. But many students can't balance their study time and the extracurricular activities. Thus this team has organised activities during the school holidays to strike a balance between studies and extracurricular activities. |
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| Region | Port Louis |
| Institution | Port Louis High School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | PLHSP PLHS Civic Action Team |
| Title | Hygiene at the canteen |
| Summary | Cases of food poisoning have raised concern whether the school canteen meets the required food and hygiene standards. This civic action has decided through a sketch to sensitise the students on the importance of good eating habits and to ensure that the food handlers at the canteen observe the food regulations. |
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| Region | Quatre Bornes |
| Institution | Eden College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Eden Civic Action Team |
| Title | Poor eating habits among students |
| Summary | Bad eating habits and unbalanced diet can lead to health problems resulting in absenteeism at school. Through a series of talks, exhibitions, and distribution of leaflets on food hygiene and nutrition, the students have been sensitised on the importance of good eating habits. |
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| Region | Riviere du Rempart |
| Institution | Universal College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Vigilance Civic Action Team |
| Title | Effects of net chatting on students' life |
| Summary | Chatting through the Internet has brought a revolution in the way people communicate. However, the misuse of Internet chatting can lead to health problems, grammar distortion, increased generation gap between parents and children and many more. Through a sketch, this civic action team has tried to sensitize students about the bad effects of Internet chatting and has proposed solutions such as sensitisation through screen savers on school computers and reduction of pocket money to overcome the problem. |
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| Region | Riviere du Rempart |
| Institution | Ramsoondar Prayag State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Premium Civic Action Team |
| Title | Mismanagement of Ramsoondar Prayag State Secondary School's library system |
| Summary | Having identified that the manual school library system has a lot of drawbacks, this civic action team is proposing to implement a computerised library system in an attempt to solve these problems. |
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| Region | Rose Bell |
| Institution | Sookdeo Bisoondoyal State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | E-Library Civic Action Team |
| Title | Wastage of time in the school library |
| Summary | It has been observed that there is a waste of time in the college library concerning the borrowing of books because of the manual lending system and indiscipline. As a solution to the problem, a computerised library system is being proposed. Furthermore, Internet facilities for information searching and the possibility of integrating the computerised system to the college website are also envisaged. |
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| Region | Rose Hill |
| Institution | Queen Elizabeth College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Tackling Queens Civic ActionTeam |
| Title | Improper recording of lateness and absences |
| Summary | A lot of bureaucracy has been observed in recording the lateness and absences of students at the college and this affects the teachers, the usher and also the students. A computerised system is being proposed to remedy this situation while it is envisaged to motivate students to come to college on time by rewarding them and giving them recognition. |
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| Region | Sebastopol |
| Institution | Sebastopol State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Intelligentsia SSS |
| Title | Sensitizing students on optimum use of a school library |
| Summary | The team identified a lack of discipline in the school library as their main problem. Consequently, the library set up was redesigned, books were rearranged and a video clip was used to sensitise students on the use and importance of the library. |
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| Region | Souillac |
| Institution | Thanacody College |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | CAT A Marrant |
| Title | Groping in the dark corridors of CAT |
| Summary | This team promoted brainstorming as a tool to collect ideas from students and to encourage them to use this tool. Students were also encouraged to use other problem solving tools, like Pareto and fish bone in their daily life to solve their problems. |
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| Region | Souillac |
| Institution | Atelier de Formation Joie de Vivre |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Croix du Sud Civic Action Team |
| Title | Lutter contre le tabagisme chez les jeunes |
| Summary | According to a survey, it was found that 72% of the youth smoke because of problems, peer pressure and lack of leisure. This civic action team wants to sensitise the youth of the southern region on the bad effects of smoking and with the help of other organisations would like to help those being affected by this problem. |
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| Region | Triolet |
| Institution | Lady Sushil Ramgoolam State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Lady Sushil Ramgoolam SSS Civic Action Team |
| Title | Students' lateness computerised system |
| Summary | Having identified lateness as a major problem their school is facing and the time wasted in recording and processing the data manually, this civic action team has devised a computerised system to record lateness at school and to inform the students' parents accordingly. |
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| Region | Vacoas |
| Institution | Pandit Cashinath Kistoe Aryan Vedic Aided School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Unnati Civic Action Team |
| Title | How to reduce the rate of collapsing of families in society? |
| Summary | The family is a basic unit of social organisation found in all societies that plays a key role in socializing children into the culture of their society. Nowadays, problems such as family violence, lack of communication, unemployment and new social values are pressurizing the family. Through an action plan, it is being proposed to have an online forum where youth will have the opportunity to discuss about their family problems, to seek advice from psychologists and to sensitize youth on the importance of family. |
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| Region | Vacoas |
| Institution | Dr Maurice Cure State Secondary School |
| Year | 2004 |
| Team Name | Orion Civic Action Team |
| Title | Indiscipline in the classroom |
| Summary | Indiscipline is a common problem and is part of today's life. It starts at home when children disobey to their parents, and continues its way to school where students misbehave with teachers, other school staff and their friends. To eradicate the problem, the civic action team is proposing to organise activities where students could show their creativity and use their energy in a more productive way and to organise educational trips. The team is planning to use information and communication technologies (website and emails) to sensitise their peers about these activities. |
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