Education is not the learning of facts,
but the training of the mind to think.Albert Einstein
Outside the standard framework of any educational curriculum, any sort of knowledge, practice, or talent can be referred to as extracurricular activity aka ECA. By extracurricular activity, we usually mean what students want to develop outside their conventional studies and day-to-day practices that are going to assist the students in developing their life passion. With a simple example this can be easily analyzed; suppose in the classroom some students can sing, dance, or debate in addition to studying. Their particular brilliance can be counted as an ECA.
Engaging in extracurricular activities daily makes students' lives more efficient and increases their thinking capacity, creative work, and time utilization. The benefits of ECAs are too many to count. ECA is something that people can only start with love and again it is seen to have a huge impact on their career. Involving to ECAs and developing them day by day will pay off one day and it is going to emphasize an individual’s life and career. In some cases, it opens varieties of opportunities for one. And now it occupies a very important place to impress the University for Higher Education, especially for Foreign Studies.
In today's world where thousands of obstacles have arisen to keep students distracted from learning, and right there ECA plays a vital role in helping the students be productive. This practice helps them improve their external knowledge and boosts their academic performances. This is why students are not being addicted to social media but are spending some productive time helping them be stress-free, building a good mood and mentality. By doing this, they are getting rid of mental stress and being able to be engaged in their daily activities with a cheerful mind.
Extracurricular activities instil key skills and personality traits that can be helpful in other walks of life. For example, someone is a football enthusiast. By drilling this game he’s not only getting mastery over the game but also his teamwork, Leadership, agility, and problem-solving skill is enhanced. Through exercising writing skills one’s thoughts are being more broadened. The musical instrument requires perseverance, hand-eye coordination, and, above all, creativity. So we can see there are versatile benefits of each ECA.
It's too difficult and competitive to get a like-minded job nowadays, whereas good ECA holders stay ahead all the time. All of their skills make them more proficient in front of the interviewer and they can show confidence in them. This works as a bonus point and every company always requires employees with multiple skills.
In this modern age, knowledge has been inducted one step further through tons of online resources. Now anyone can build an ECA on their own and with ease. During the epidemic, we saw how many new skills can be acquired at home. There are many sites where courses are available to gain proficiency in any subject. With communities like Facebook or Youtube, it is much easier to spread and learn any skill without paying any money. By this availability, every student should be able to further develop whatever he or she wants. And we the AS8 organization community are the same and looking forward to helping tons of students in their coding journey.
In our community, tons of opportunities are waiting for you. We are connecting students with industry professionals and linking all the school-college IT clubs together. Our community’s speakers and mentors are domain experts. They will mentor students and support them in their programming career. We are also collecting the best resources in a single place so that our community members can easily access them and increase their skills by learning newer technologies. Besides resources, we have planned to organize events, workshops, code jams, hackathons throughout the year.
The great news is that all of these are completely free for our community members. Our community is open to all. We believe,
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen R. Covey
So, what are you waiting for? Join our community now by filling up this Google form. After filling up this form don’t forget to join our Discord server. There you will find all our community members, mentors and speakers with whom you can learn, share, jam, create and thus grow together!
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An article by The AS8 Organization
Credits:
- Research - Arko Chowdhury
- Content Writing - Audrija Dhar
- Editing & Cover Image - Ahammad Shawki