Local high-school parliament project

 

03.06.2005. "Gimnazija" Student Parliament// Quiz"Like -Millioner" for professors

And here's another outstanding action by the "Gimnazija Krusevac" student parliament - an original way to promote and create better relations between the students and the professors. The plan was the old one - swiching sides, only this time in a different form. "Let's see how much do the professors really know..." was a common sentance in the school that week - the students prepared the "hot-seat" and a few tough questions for the professors who applied to participate in the quiz.

The whole event was a copy of the popular TV quiz "Who wants to be a millionaire", with all the stuff that goes with it. A few VIPs we're in the audience - the mayor and his colleagues, but the most interesting one was Ivan Zeljković, the host of the "real", national "Who wants to be a millionaire" quiz. "Kao-milioner" was held in the school gym, with an audience of about 200 people, local and national TV reporters. Seven professors had the opportunity to present their knowledge and win prizes (T-shirts, "Marni cafe" packs, car-cosmetics...). And, unlike the original quiz, the first contestant already conquered the 3 million "non-dinars" question (the currency of the show were fictional "non-dinars" which, of course, had no value :).

One thing that made an impression was the technical realization - 2 video-beams were at work, one for the questions and the other one for the camera (filming the audience, the contestants facial expressions etc), and a fairly good soundsystem.

This interesting action was also the closing for the GimFest 2005, a part of the 140th school anniversary.

 

27.-29.05.2005. "Gimnazija" student parliament // GimFest 2005, Yardfest

GimFest 2005 was one of the main manifestations held in the big year of the 140th school anniversary. Organized and coordinated by the student parliament of "Gimnazija Krusevac", with the support of the school authorities, GimFest was a 3-day celebration schoolyard festival.

Festival program :

 

Friday, May 27th

16:00- 17:00 Poetic chariot - Momo Kapor (famous national poet)

20:00 Professor artwork presentations

Saturday, May 28th

13:00 - 17:00 Creative Fair

22:00 - 01:00 Celebration Party (Dj Blue / Love Nation Belgrade)

Sunday, May 29th

00-24h Photo-show

17:00 - 18:00 Theater play "Family stories" ("Porodične priče")

18:30 - 20:00 A featured Movie "Biotop"

Friday was the "warm-up" day since it was a working day. But that doesn't mean that it was not interesting - Momo Kapor, the famous poet started this "day-of-literacy" in his chariots, which he rode through the town a little bit, and then parked in the schoolyard, where he presented an hour of first-class poetry. Then the professors had their opportunity to present their work - mainly novels, but also paintings and photos.

Saturday was the "day-of-fun" and the Creative Fair was the one to open it. This was the opportunity for the students to show their talent and creativity- the school bands, solo-singers and comedians occupied the stage, while the "material" artists had their stands. You could encounter everything - all kinds of rock, hip-hop and electronic music, then handmade jewelry, bags, boxes, medival weapons and clothes, Warhammer pawns, paintings, photos... It was nice to see how the gathered artists made contact, talked about collaborating (especially the musicians), and above all had great fun.

 

 

The whole event has gathered up a big crowd of passerbys, and was covered by all local TV stations. And it was pretty interesting to see people from other high-schools visiting the Fair- this event actually made them think of organizing similar activities in their schools.

 

The "day-of-fun" continued at about 10 pm, when the schoolyard hosted a big open-air party with a famous Belgrade DJ Blue from Love Nation DJ Team. More than 400 people danced wildly in the rhythm of todays popular electronic music. The estimated number of all people who visited the party was 600 to 700. A nice suprise for Krusevac :).

We can also say that the party was pretty high-tech for what people in Krusevac are used to - under the influence of high quality soundsystem and light effects, hundreds of people enjoyed the video-beam show (which consisted of a photo slideshow, with pictures from excursions, the mask-party, classes, celebrations etc. and nice effects presented by the Winamp Milkdrop plugin :). The atmosphere was great, with no incidents. The students had to thank their sponsors ("Weifert" bier factory and "Educational Centre") for that.

 

 

Sunday was a little more quiet than the previous day - the school theater play "Family stories" ("Porodične priče"), featured by the "Gimnazija" student actor team, was held in front of an audience of 100 people. Once again, this play has shown the quality of the local actor school. Then the visitors had the opportunity to watch an amateur movie filmed, featured and produced by a dozen of "Gimnazija" students - "Biotop" is a story of superheros, supervillans, rockstars and other interesting characters. It is a comedy based upon famous films such as "The Matrix" and "The Predator". The event also included a 24 hour photoshow with pictures from previous actions, excursions and previous days of the festival.

The whole festival was a part of the 140th school anniversary, and therefore, the Gimnazija high-school parliament had great support from the school authorities.

But this was not the end of GimFest, because next friday (June 3rd), the students organized something that was originally ment to occur on Friday the 27th- check out the previous article.