{"id":19762,"date":"2021-04-02T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=19762"},"modified":"2021-04-02T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:28:40","slug":"velammal-students-created-election-awareness-through-sand-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=19762","title":{"rendered":"VELAMMAL STUDENTS CREATED ELECTION AWARENESS THROUGH SAND ART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19765\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5049-min\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min.jpg 6016w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_5049-min-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6016px) 100vw, 6016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VELMMAL STUDENTS CREATED ELECTION AWARENESS THROUGH SAND ART<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming State Assembly Elections, Students of Velammal Vidyalaya (Annexure), Sr. Secondary School, Mel Aynambakkam, resorted to an innovative way creating an impressive sand sculpture measuring 400 sqft at Vivekananda Memorial, Marina Beach on 2nd April, 2021 that aimed to woo voters to exercise their democratic right to vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19766\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4953-min\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min.jpg 6016w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4953-min-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6016px) 100vw, 6016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sand Art was unveiled by our Chief Guest Shri. G. Prakash, I.A.S., Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, (District Election Officer), who applauded the spirit of the students\u2019 mammoth sand art, which emphasized voting is important. The Sand Art expressed the notion &#8216;Your vote! Your Voice!\u2019 with a spectacular image depicting a voter&#8217;s finger that symbolized the action needed by every voter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19768\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4962-min\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min.jpg 6016w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_4962-min-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6016px) 100vw, 6016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dignitaries Shri. Shankar Lal Kumawat, I.A.S., Joint Commissioner (Education), Shri. Meghanath Reddy I.A.S, Deputy Commissioner (R&amp;F), Greater Chennai Corporation, Shri. Sridhar, I.A.S, Regional Deputy Commissioner (Central), Chennai Corporation, Shri Aari Arujunan (Bigg Boss Tamil 4 Title winner, Actor) and Shri. John Vijay (Actor) appreciated students\u2019 reverberating speech on the power to vote and also Sarah C, the little genius in Rubik\u2019s cube, who made her rendition to concur with this principle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19769\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2098-min\" width=\"5568\" height=\"3712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min.jpg 5568w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_2098-min-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5568px) 100vw, 5568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The magnificent cube arrangement of electronic voting machine stole the show. The onlookers were awestruck. The ultimate objective was materialized in creating awareness among voters and to accomplish their responsibility as a citizen by the right action at the right time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19770\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO.jpeg\" alt=\"PHOTO\" width=\"1156\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO.jpeg 1156w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO-768x346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PHOTO-1024x462.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1156px) 100vw, 1156px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a part of corporate social responsibility, Velammal has taken effort to organize this event. Parents applauded the school management for their remarkable effort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VELMMAL STUDENTS CREATED ELECTION AWARENESS THROUGH SAND ART &nbsp; Ahead of the upcoming State Assembly Elections, Students of Velammal Vidyalaya (Annexure), Sr. Secondary School, Mel Aynambakkam, resorted to an innovative way creating an impressive sand sculpture measuring 400 sqft at Vivekananda Memorial, Marina Beach on 2nd April, 2021 that aimed to woo voters to exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinemas","category-education","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19780,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions\/19780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}