‘Samsung Smart School’ inaugurated at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Varanasi

Samsung

has inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program

Samsung Smart School

at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Varanasi, aiming to provide digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung will also be training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The goal of Samsung Smart School is to improve learning abilities of students and also their understanding of critical concepts in the classrooms via interactive digital teaching methods that teachers have been trained in.

As part of the program, students of JNV Varanasi will experience the digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms set up by Samsung in the school.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch

Samsung Flip

interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in classwork and project work and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Varanasi, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Kaushal Raj Sharma, District Magistrate, Varanasi, who is also a former JNV student;

SK Maheshwari

, Deputy Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) Regional Office, Varanasi; Peter Rhee, Deputy Managing Director, Samsung India;

Partha Ghosh

, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India; and PK Singh, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Varanasi.

“We are delighted to see the efforts put in by Samsung to enable digital education for students in remote areas of Varanasi. Samsung Smart School and the strong teacher training component of this program are already helping us improve learning processes for students and will go a long way in bridging the digital divide,” said PK Singh.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Varanasi will provide digital learning opportunities to students and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure to teach. Samsung Smart School program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Partha Ghosh