4) Theatre Club: Conducted a street play ‘Yeh Kyon Hai Hota?’ at the Plaza, Sector 17, Chandigarh on gender sensitization. They are also preparing a stage show with a confluence on all five forms of theatre to be staged at the end of the year.
5) Robotics – Our hosted and participated at WRO 2016; started academy for preparation of FLL by professionals from RoboGenius Academy.
6) Film Making Club – Students of the Film making club shot two films which were premiered at Asia’s largest film festival for youth and children  - SIFFCY 2016 organised by the Smile Foundation at Siri Fort, New Delhi. They participated in the Film festival and got an opportunity to interact with Mr. Jitendra Mishra, an acclaimed film director.

Ø  Bookmark Exchange Project 2016: - This is really a wonderful means of sharing information and learning beyond the geographical and language barriers, and making pals around the world. Students exchanged a lot of information on their respective countries about their culture, currency, festivals, cuisines, sports, national symbols, authors, books, and many more. This year our partner schools were: -

• Pine Road Elementary School (USA)

• Osnovna škola "Stjepan Radić", Božjakovina (Croatia)

• OŠ "Matija Gubec" Magadenovac (Croatia)

• Gray Academy of Jewish Education (Canada)

• "Ion Creanga" Secondary School (Romania)

• OŠ Vladimir Nazor Topusko (Croatia)

• TWGHs Lo Yu Chik Primary School (Hong Kong)

• Osnovna škola Trnovec ( Croatia)

• Kwok Man School (Hong Kong)

• Osnovna škola "Ivan Leko", Proložac (Croatia)

• Stamford American International School (Singapore)

• Lakeland Elementary School (USA)

• Kisboldogasszony Katolikus Általános Iskola (Hungary)

• Escola EB 2,3 Professor Delfim Santos (Portugal)

Ø  Skype Interaction: - Technology has certainly brought the people closer. This year our students will be having a ‘Skype Session’ with 

                     I.        ‘Russian State School number 4 of Kingisepp, Russia’  

                   II.        ‘Centrul de Documentare și Informare "Mihai Eminescu", Romania.

                  III.        St. James Senior Girls’ School, London, UK

2) Project SEARCH – At the culmination of seven years of Project SEARCH conducted by The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and TetraPak, our school bagged the first position as ‘SEARCH Impact School’ from the tricity for its contributions to the project. Ramneek Kaur Malhotra, the SEARCH coordinator of the school, bagged the Best TetraPak Teacher Coordinator award.
3) Our school also participated in the Wipro Earthian Challenge this year
4) Edtech Summit 2016: -Students of Class X – Isha Sinha and Jasmine Bal – participated in the Edtech Summit 2016 organised by Learn Today at Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. They presented a report of their collaborative project ‘Ik Saanjh’ with Stellar International School, Banur and ‘Sai Ka Pyar’ schools run by an NGO for the marginalized sections of the society.

 

2) Storyteller: - The students of classes I–IV were treated to an enthralling session of story-telling conducted by Ms. Simi Srivastava, master storyteller and founder of ‘Kathashala’. She used the performing arts to narrate stories and the accompanying live music was like the icing on the cake.
3) TOI Newsmaker's Meet- The TOI in collaboration with LPS organized the NIE News Makers' Meet in the School Auditorium.. The guests of honour were Major General Raj Mehta (Retd) and the Deputy Resident Editor Biju P Alias.
4) Visit by USA Universities' Representatives-Linden Educational Services (LES) based in California brought a group of representatives from accredited US Universities to Chandigarh to interact with Students of classes 10 & 11 
 

World Scholar's Cup:- ·         Our school was the first school in the tricity to host the regional round of the World Scholars Cup in August 2016. This is a very prestigious international competition which is held at various levels, the first one being in schools. Many schools of North India participated in the same. The event was  conducted by representatives of the 'World Scholar's Foundation Team, Los Angeles, USA.The competition saw a good participation from the schools of the region. Our students also performed well and many teams have been selected for the global round.

LPS Commerce & Business Department organized the first Inter-House Business Quiz at Learning Paths School. The students were tested on their knowledge of current affairs, personalities, brands, punch lines, history of business & economic world. The quiz was conducted and presented by the Quiz Master - Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed.

LPS Commerce students had an enlightening and eye opener session with Mr. Venkat Matoory, CEO - JA India. The purpose of the session was to enable the student to comprehend the Business and Industry Structure. The Student will be doing a summer project on Industry of their choice in which they think their professional interest lies.

Learning Paths School Mohali (LPS) organized a seminar on managing the transition from education to profession, especially through the high school years. The event saw participation from ~150 students and parents. Setting the above context, Mrs. Komal Singh, Principal, LPS Mohali initiated the proceedings. Venkat Matoory, CEO JA India and Senior Director, IENI, JA Worldwide engaged the participants on the nuances of intersection of education and profession, that there exists a transition at this intersection, which needs to be actively managed. Vivek Atray, IAS, Author and Motivational Speaker, exercised participants’ thought on building present day student into resilient future professional. While emphasizing the traditional value of commitment and dedication being sine qua non, he drew attention to emerging flexibility present day Industry offers and why having a big picture early on allows one to thrive despite circumstances. Vinu Warrier, Managing Partner, eduVelocity walked the audience through opportunity world present day Industry offers for the commerce professional – the most pertinent being academic qualifications barely restrict options and that most doors to success are open despite commitments one may have already made to academic disciplines. Followed by active interaction between the audience and speakers, students and parents posed a range of queries on interests, academic disciplines and professional pathway.

 Different strokes

This session was conducted for teachers of Learning Paths School, focused on different situations call for different styles of handling of students. The session emphasized that teachers are magicians who surprise their students by enabling them to succeed or achieve way beyond what students expect from themselves. It was learning, exploring, fun in the workshop which was one in the series of faculty development program run for Learning Paths by Open Hand Solutions .

Commerce and Business Studies wing of Learning Paths School, Mohali, has initiated Work Place Skills Program for both students and teachers of Commerce Department.The duration of the program will be 30 hours stretched over a period of two years.The school has appointed a highly skilled HR professional, Mrs. Prerna Kalra, Founder - Open Hand Solutions for conducting Work Place Skills program classes at predefined intervals. The initiative has been undertaken essentially to expose our Young Adults (students) to the reality of work life. This program would enable the students to identify their potential and strengths and link the same to a suitable professional line out of the plethora of options available in the market. Mrs. Prerna Kalra, will also act as a student coach and conduct workshops and bring Industry intervention, from time to time, to groom and hone business skills of students.

A highly interactive workshop on the topic “STUDENTS AND INDUSTRY-ADVANCING ASPIRATION & REASON, DILIGENCE & SENSE (STANDARDS) was conducted in which a large number of students and faculties of different schools across the north region such as Spring Dales (Amritsar), Ryan International (Chandigarh), Bhavan Vidayalaya (Panchkula), Dikshant International (Zirakpur) and Carmel Convent (Chandigarh) participated in this event. The resource speaker for this workshop was Mr. Venkat Matoory, CEO JA India, and Senior Director, India Enterprise Network, JA Worldwide who said that the journey of leadership is a fascinating one and it begins when one stops working for oneself and works for the excellence of one’s team. The three days session focused on gaining clarity on the concepts of self and mapping of achievements.

Commerce students of Learning Paths School have launched their first student company, Helper’s Hague JA Student Company. The Company will manufacture and market a unique product a Load-lifter/carrier named as ‘Cool-e’ This product is especially designed to carry and transport heavy load.

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·         Our pre-primary students participated in a ‘Mega Talent Search Drawing & Painting’ Competition’ conducted by The Kids Cerebral Academy (KCA), Nagpur.

Intellectual marathon - the ‘race of the mind’ - young students of LPS take part in this annual event with enthusiasm and unmatched zeal. Students run a race to win medals in all curricular subjects - English, Math, Science, Social Science, Punjabi, French, Art and Craft, General Knowledge, Sports and IT. Students choose their subjects and compete with each other Inter House to test their mettle at various competency levels - acceptance, balance and challenge. Students not only receive medals at an individual level, but the total scores of each House are calculated to decide the winning House.