Theme: Educate-Experience-Enjoy

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Kala Academy
Dayanand Bandodkar Marg
Campal, Panaji, Goa
Panaji, Goa, 403001
India

Aditya Jhunjhunwala

Mechanical Engineer

Aditya Jhunjhunwala is a Mechanical Engineer with PGDBM from IIM Ahmedabad. He is the founder of ADIPA, an innovative ceramic gifting business. Creator of Lifeschool Ignite, that conducts a mentoring program called ‘Dancing with Tigers’ to develop inspired youth, who have the desire to live a brilliant life and the courage to become ‘Forces of Goodness.’

Ashok Kumar Thakur

Founder of Muni International School

Army discipline & rigorous training mounted on father’s deep rooted values and his inner deep pain of missing education gave him determination to provide quality education for children from lower strata of society. His 40-innovative child centered methodology such Eklavya System, Am I Able, Center work, GRS etc.Honored as ‘Shikshak Ratan Award’, Rajdhani Gaurav award, F.B Nigam award, Navratan Award of the year for excellence in education, Jan samman, Honorary Doctorate in education by Global Victoria University etc.

Charlene Farrell

Counselling Psychologist

Her passion has always been working with adolescents and their issues. She believe in the propagation of knowledge and skill as the cornerstone to a developed nation and works extensively to bring real life experiences and fun. Besides working as a counselor to the students, she also makes it a point to be available to the parents, for she believes that bringing up a child is the responsibility of the collective and not merely the responsibility of a few. She is an avid reader who enjoys playing with the written word.

Jeroninio Almeida

Author, Life Coach

Bestselling author and celebrated orator, he is a life coach who has worked with several CEO’s, politicians and athletes. He will soon launch his book series. He is a social activist, philanthropist, UN advisor and missionary entrepreneur. He has addressed parents, educators, principals and students in top schools across India and now planning the International Volunteering Olympiad, a school/ college student awards initiative for citizen action accompanied by Certified Leadership Development Program to inspire solid character and unleash heroic potential in all students.

Kenneth Alvares

Full-Stack Developer

A self-taught developer and designer who learned coding languages using YouTube and other resources on the internet. Soon after high school, at the age of 18, he began freelancing as a Full Stack Marketer, handling the online presence of his clients by developing websites, devising blogging strategies, handling social media management, implementing SEO strategies and more.

Suvarna Fonseca

Lecturer and former Principal

She's a Lecturer in Biology and a former principal, Homeopathic physician and an Environmentalist. Her ‘Bioconverter’, a product of her design that converts the state of organic waste, bagged a gold medal at the national level for INSPIRE and she was awarded the President’s Award for innovation. Her motto if ‘Be the change you want to see.'

Tallulah D'Silva

Architect

She debuted with an independent design and build practice and has worked on different projects, from cost effective and sustainable private residences to institutions and hospitality projects in Goa. Some of these have been extensively publicized and won awards. Besides architecture and urban-ism, she is passionate about the environment and empowering community by ideating interventions at the grassroots. Her ideas like Ecoloo and G2H20 where waste is converted into a resource have been implemented successfully in Goa. She loves to teach, mentor and work with children and the youth.

Zuleika Antao

Student

A recent graduate of high school, she will soon be staring her Bachelors in Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences in Mangalore. In 2015, she participated in a national level science exhibition cum competition called INSPIRE in Delhi. On Children’s Day last year, she was awarded a silver medal by President Pranab Mukherjee. She aims to make the world a better place in her own.