Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi Presents Certificates to North Chennai Government School Students Who Worked on Projects in Energy Management and Urban Planning
CHENNAI: Minister for School Education, Mr. Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, on Thursday presented certificates of completion to students from 10 government schools in North Chennai who have successfully completed the first two projects of the North Chennai Project-Based Learning Programme — a CSR initiative by Kamarajar Port Limited in partnership with the Rhapsody Music Foundation. The total budget allocated by Kamarajar Port Limited was INR 25 lakh. The milestone marks a significant moment for approximately 2500 students who have gone from classroom learners to builders of working solutions to real-world problems.
A midline assessment conducted at the end of the first project shows schools improved by an average of 7.1 percentage points from baseline — with standout performers like CMS Ramanathapuram recording a 20.3-point gain, and CMS Kathivakkam, previously flagged for linguistic challenges, surging past the programme average. The programme, which is ongoing through the academic year, will have students completing several more project modules before a final showcase event.
At the heart of the programme is Rhapsody Music Foundation’s model of bringing the world’s best academic minds directly into government school classrooms. Students who would otherwise have no access to university-level expertise find themselves working under the sustained guidance of professors from IIT Madras, Syracuse University, Illinois Tech, and KREA University — not as a one-off interaction, but as mentorship woven across the arc of a real project. Rhapsody designs each module around problems drawn from the world students actually live in, evaluated against real-world criteria. The result is that a child in a North Chennai government school experiences the same quality of intellectual challenge — and the same sense of achievement on completing it — as a student anywhere else in the world.
