THE HARVEST
We held “Day Of Possibilities” workshop with Ullas Trust at the Intellect Office in Gurgaon in mid-December 2018. This was done as part of their Summit workshops and was such a great fit! Around 100 students gathered from neighboring schools and had an engaging 2-hour […]
If you ordered a set of Know Your Star Book of Possibilities, you would know that it comes with a cool hand-stitched khadi bag. But did you know the story behind these bags? And how and why we decided to use these beautiful bags for […]
“What do you want to become when you grow up?” This is a question all of us have been asked when we were children, and is a question we continue asking the children of today! The younger the kids, the more variety of answers you […]
Our country is seeing the rise of so many educational institutes, private coaching centres, competitive exams, and curriculum changes, all for the betterment of our students. You see schools and colleges with the campus and classrooms looking swankier by the day. One would think with […]
How easy it is to close eyes on matters which need urgent attention in our country? When given a choice do you feel helpless or roll up your sleeves? As easy and entitled as it is to do nothing, some heroic ones choose to rather […]
Most of us have grown up with a narrow scope of careers to pursue; not for lack of skills or capability, but for lack of awareness and information about the diverse opportunities waiting for us out in the world. So we asked ourselves, what can […]
Harshita, one of our beloved volunteers, shares her Volunesia experience! Bangalore was in a good mood that day. The weather was at its best; gloomy but blissful. I was on my way to meet the little wonders at Brindavan Tent School after quite a long […]
Namaste! You’ve been a part of our story at KnowYourStar for a long time now. You’ve heard many snippets of how KnowYourStar came to be! But we wanted to give you a whole picture that can help you see the bigger picture of our vision. […]
A few weeks ago, the Grand Mercure Hotel was kind enough to recognize the efforts of our co-founder, Jaideep Rao. Not only was it an amazing and affirming experience, but we also realised that the people behind the award were wonderful people – making the […]
This month, we experienced something quite unique at our monthly retreat – there were no ‘problems’ to solve! I don’t want you to think that we are in constant crisis mode or anything – but usually, we take some time over the course of our […]
Implementing the Design For Change curriculum as part of Mentor India has been so fruitful for us and our kids at Paranga Vidya Kendra, which we always refer to as our Pyramid School! We did know that a curriculum designed from the heart has the […]
As a part of Mentor India, we have been collaborating with Tarkeybein to use their English curriculum to teach letter recognition along with phonetics and reading to our children. Apart from delivering the content, we also trained the teacher to be able to keep the […]
