The Student Corner section of Sangamam Tamil School website is to encourage STS students to contribute their original content to STS. The content can be typed, hand written, drawings, stories, articles, paintings etc. Parents can help students for typing the content if the kids can’t write in tamil. The content should come only from the student and it has to be in TAMIL.
 
Every month, STS will try to showcase students contributions by publishing their content in STS website. Participation to this program is voluntary and has no impact to the regular class teaching, grading etc.
 
Student Corner’s intent to assist STS’s mission to augment Tamil language and culture learning through creative means. The Student Corner will do the best to identify platform to showcase these contributions for a larger reach, including showcasing it during STS events, STS Facebook etc.

The following policies and procedures will be followed by STS for publishing the student content in the student corner section of the website.

• The content has to be in TAMIL.
• The content has to be an original content from the student.
• This content should not have been published anywhere else earlier.
• STS has full rights of this student content.
• STS may sometimes, choose not to publish a content or modify the content at their own discretion.
• Any typed content should not be more than one page (100 words or 3 paragraphs)
• Photos of students or the content should be in jpeg format and should not exceed 10 MB in total.
• STS may reject the content, if the content does not satisfy any of the format or size guidelines.
• It is the parents responsibility to sign-up their student for the student corner.
• Student or Parent cannot hold STS responsible for any misrepresentation or mistakes on the published content.

The following ideas can be used by kids for student corner section. These ideas are just some samples and not a full list. Parents can help their kids by typing the content in Tamil, if the student is not able to write in Tamil. However all hand-written contributions must be written by the student.

• Short Story in Tamil
• Short Poem in Tamil
• Drawings/Coloring: Example: Thiruvalluvar, Bharathi, World Hertiage places in Tamil Nadu, Kolam drawings.
• Thirukural with meaning and a small explanation of why the student like that kural better than other kurals.
• Craft project portraying Tamil culture – ponga paanai decoration, manju vetratu clay model (secular items only).

Email your contribution to: newsletter@sangamamtamilschool.org
 
Include the following details: 

• Student Name and Class
• Title of the contribution
• Short description
• Attachment – Common file formats for photos (jpeg, jpg, gif, png). Content will be hosted by STS in our public facing sites (Website, FB, etc)