Under the auspices of The Lotus Career/College Guidance Unit, 'Vistas: Success in Sight when you Plan Right,' a Career Counselling Session was conducted by Jitin Chawla on December 27, 2024. This session was ideated by Mr. Hariharan Balagopal, the Editor & Founder of School Live Magazine.

The session began with a role play where children acted as parents, and Mr. Chawla portrayed a 15-year-old child. This humorous act set the stage with lots of laughter and provided insight into an adolescent's perspective on career choices. Mr. Chawla discussed various options available for different subjects and highlighted the importance of taking summer schools and internships.

The session concluded with Mr. Chawla addressing numerous queries from the attendees.

A session titled ‘Dream Careers Abroad’ was conducted by Hima Mal, Director of Ikigaii Education Services, for Grade XI students on August 18, 2024.

The session aided students in enhancing their profiles by emphasizing on intellectual vitality, a fundamental component for profile enrichment. Hima Mal's dedication to education radiated through her dynamic and productive sessions. She even guided the students away from pursuing the wrong paths, ensuring they avoided unproductive avenues that could cause them to miss out on valuable opportunities.

She encouraged learners to align their plans with core concepts and adeptly imparted guidance on crafting effective profiles, ensuring the accurate inclusion of information in the profile-building process.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

To empower the students with the erudition to fulfil their goals and help them get admission to their dream universities, a talk and a career fair was organized at Lotus Valley International School for Grades IX to XII.

The session commenced with a warm welcome of the resource person, Abhishek Gupta who spoke on the topic - ‘Career, Admissions & Scholarships: What parents need to know’. Taking over the platform, he captivated the learners and the parents with the sheer amplitude of information regarding profile-building. The talk was both inspiring & fruitful wherein the ideas and options widened the horizons of the learners with respect to achieving their desired goals.

On October 3, 2023, an enlightening online session titled ‘Unlocking Your Path to Success: Mastering the Art of Crafting Winning SOPs and Seizing Scholarships for UK Undergraduate Adventures’ took place in the school auditorium on MS Teams. The esteemed speaker for this session was Dr. Pankhuri Agarwal, an illustrious alumna of SRCC College, Delhi University, who currently serves as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Management at the University of Bath. The session commenced with Dr. Agarwal's insightful discussion on the importance of crafting one's own Statement of Purpose (SOP) for undergraduate program applications. She emphasized the key differences between a personalized SOP and the generic ones often provided by agents.

Sessions on October 29 and 30, 2023 were conducted for Grade XI students by Mr. Anand Venkatesan, an alumnus of the prestigious IIM Bangalore and a graduate in Engineering from VIT, Vellore, and Mr. Abhishek Anand, who holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a B.Com (Hons) from SRCC, Delhi University. The sessions focused on developing critical thinking skills, during which they presented thought-provoking 'guestimates' to the students. It was emphasized that the process of solving these problems was more important than the actual answers.

Learners of Grade XII (Ramdas Singh, Aarav Garg, Snehal Singh, Mahir Dhamija, and Aditya Marwah) brought laurels to the school by scoring in the top 25% of all participating students and received a Certificate of Distinction in the Euclid Competition conducted by The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada. School Champion, Ramdas Singh (XII-Archimedes), also received a Medal.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." —Abraham Lincoln

To motivate the learners to realize their higher education aspirations, Lotus Valley International school in collaboration with EducationUSA, USIEF organised a career counselling session 'Get Set, Go! Gear up for the next U.S. University Intake' for grades X & XII on Thursday March 23, 2023. Ms. Megha Yadav, Advisor, Education USA facilitated the session with a plethora of information viable for the learners to channelize their passions well in time. She emphasized that one must have in-depth knowledge of the choices, lest one might end-up in a career that is not meant for them.