Event categories: 2017

PDAV ALUMNI DOCTORS MEET

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, is a process of learning…in order to make this process more interesting an Alumni Meet of the Medical students of the school was held. Dr.Akash Sharma, Dr. Shyamli, Dr.Rupinder Kaur, Dr. Rosen, Dr.Navkamal, Dr.Rajat, Dr.Munishand Dr.Vineeta the Doctor Alumni of the school shared their experiences with the students of the medical stream. They inspired their juniors with their secrets on how they had prepared for their +2 Board examination and other entrance examinations like NEET. In an interactive session they shared their success stories and answered different queries of the students. They also apprised their juniors about various other career options available to them. During the session the Alumni fondly reminisced their school days and paid rich tributes to their Alma Mater.

Saumya Vij, one of the outstanding Alumnus of Police DAV Public School Jalandhar, addressed the students of Medical and Non- Medical classes of the school on Nov 20, 2017.
Saumya Vij is a Hardware Engineer currently working at Intel Corporation, California, USA. Before Intel, he has worked at Oracle and Nvidia.
He has an M.Sc. (Economics), B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from BITS Pilani and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA.
He has had a rich research experience with stints at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India, Friedrich Alexander University, Germany and École de technologie supérieure, Canada.
He is an NTSE scholar, a MITACS GLOBALINK SCHOLAR & a DAAD WISE SCHOLAR, for which, he received a scholarship for future studies by Govt. of India, Summer research in Canada and Summer research in Germany respectively.
He addressed the issues of studies in foreign universities and the attraction amongst the youngsters for foreign shores. He encouraged the students to pursue studies and empower themselves rather than seeking lucrative jobs abroad. He also answered various queries of the students regarding how to succeed in competitive exams and shared his experiences in the pursuit of excellence.

Police DAV Alumni meet was held on 27^th December 2017. It was enthusiasticallyattended by as many as 200 alumni of the school ranging from the batch of 2003 to 2016.

They attended the school morning assembly which was specially organised to evoke past memories. The Principal Dr. Rashmi Vij was accorded a floral welcome by the students. In her address, she encouraged the students to join the school in various social welfare projects.

The Alumni were taken down the memory lane through a power point presentation, where the school activities were highlighted.Malvika, Amardeep, Puneet, Anandita, Shweta Arora, Saar Dhingra, Pardeep and Neha Gupta, some of the Alumni shared their old school experiences with the students of class XI. They inspired their juniors to work hard and keep the school flag flying high at all times to come.

Mrs. Chander Mohini paid a vote of thanks at the culmination of the event.

To motivate the students to join army, Alumni Association of school invited Major Divesh Kumar, an old student of school to deliver a lecture on life in Army. He told the students about various career options available in army for both boys and girls, emoluments for various posts.