Three years of Adventures

Nepal's Involvement and My Role

by Utkrishta Mulmi

Genius week is a program made by 92Y. It is a week-long event about what genius is or who are geniuses and what they contribute to the world. For example a genius can be a person who can dance beautifully or who knows how to do gardening or read or do any number of other things. This program worldwide and takes place from 4 March to 10 March. For the past three years my school has participated in the Genius Event and we have had lots of fun while learning.

2016

 

This was my first Genius Event and I was dressed up all nice with my friends. The stage was set that we were going to perform on. Huge performance tent was set. We had prepared for a few weeks. The Genius Event would involve more than 20 institutions. Many were schools and many were organizations from the international development sector as well as the private sector. This year's topic was all about presentations.

 

All of us had different presentations and plays about studies or history or religions. My presentation was about the elements in the periodic table. Invited  schools showed the audience their skits, beautiful dances, science and social components. The audience was big but we had to have extra chairs, they were loving the shows and laughing and being impressed. We had a stall where a person would be selling books by Spiny Babbler. 

 

After our presentations were done we rewarded ourselves with some juice and sandwiches. We didn’t take the stage down because we had to do another genius event the next day. I got to present my own learning, I had done a 63 page manual on the periodic table with my friends and I was just 10. 

 

I got to listen to and interact with other young people from so many schools. I got to take part in discussions with professionals and leaders from different fields. Genius Event 2016 was enlightening!

 

2017

This was my second year of genius and this event's topic was art and how geniuses could contribute to the world. We had done art workshops at shelter homes, schools and other locations and talked about untouchables and politics which I didn’t really understand.

 

This was a lot of work and instead of just working on my stuff and with my friends, we had more responsibilities. Many schools, institutions, social organizations were taking part. I and my friends had to prepare material, interact with work groups, explain what we were doing and make sure people were not confused in the build up.

 

After all the workshops we got tons of artwork from other schools. We glued the paintings on cardboard so that they wouldn’t get all crunched up. After we had tons of artwork we took them to where we were going to hold this year's genius week which was at the Patan Museum.

 

Patan Museum is at the 17th century durbar square and is a historically important place. It was a great honor to be allowed to exhibit there. We did our artwork last. And we stayed overnight several days in order to help with preparing all the material. It was a lot of fun doing this. 

 

We put everything on display. Artwork would fall and we had to put them up again and by the time we were finished, we were so tired and our feet hurt but its was thrilling looking at what we had put together. 

 

The next day everyone came! There was lines of over 100 people waiting to get in at times. There were students, teachers, parents, friends, journalists, international visitors and organizers. Some people were looking at the artwork and some were talking with their friends. All the schools made speeches. After the day was over we headed back to our homes. What a satisfactory way to learn about life and genius.

 

2018

Ok. I am now a coordinator of some districts and groups. My mother's side of the family come from Ilam so I have to get entries from there. I know an agricultural college so I have to make sure there is a submission from there. This genius week I am to be more responsible. 

Helping organize the program is a lot more difficult that participating in it or just generally running around getting glue and orienting people! This genius week was about young geniuses. People had to make poems or songs about a child who inspires you or is really good at something.

  

Physical events were to take place in different part of the country. After you record the poem you share it on Facebook to our website and then you have participated. Or you can do an event and share your insights using photos, video or writing. 

 

We are supposed to get other districts, many of which we have never heard of to join the program but since there was only 15 day deadline this was going to be hard work. Am I stressed out? Of course I am. No one seems to listen to me. And explaining things is sooooo hard. I go on and on about things and at the end of it all, they know less than before I started.

 

Now I am writing this blog and by the time March is over, hopefully we will have a lot of the country districts highlighted in green. I am so happy that we already have entries from Sindhuli, Mustang, Banke, and medical students, agriculture students, business students, and others will be involved. 

I compose music. Two samples follow, the first composition I ever made comes first. The more recent one is below. I have done a song on Vidheha for this event. 

I love hiking and camping and I love writing. You can read some of my blogs in the fitness and outdoors as well as science and technology tabs of this blog. 

 

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