Rotaract Club of College of Chemical Sciences

By Rtr. Prasadie Karunaratne The 2019 edition of 'Annasi & Kadalagotu' (A & K) literature festival was successfully held on the 20th of October at the iconic Mount Lavinia Hotel for the fifth consecutive year under the patronage of the prime mover of the festival, Captain Elmo Jayewardene. The core objective of Capt. Elmo Jayewardene was to push the perimeters of home-grown literature with the slogan – ‘simply literature, simply local’, making literature available for all that are influenced and fascinated in the art of storytelling. Entrance for the full day festival was affordable at just one hundred Rupees to encourage the core objective and the theme of the literature festival, that literature should be enjoyed in its own pace, just like as you would nibble upon slices of annasi (pineapple) and kadala (chickpea) in gotu (paper pouches). A & K lit fest brought together a variety of writers, poets, musicians, dramatists, journalists and

By Rtr. Mithuni Jayasingha  Plogging is a movement, that started in Sweden, with the idea of people picking up plastic, while jogging, to help prevent pollution on streets due to plastic. Driven by this amazing concept, the Rotaract Club of Katugastota organized Plogga’19, as the 3 rd phrase of their Clean Revolution Initiative, on the 3 rd of August 2019 six Rotaractors, representing the Rotaract Club of College of Chemical Sciences, took part in this aspiring event, to help rid the streets of Kandy of plastic. The event commenced with the registration of the participants, followed by a Zumba Session to boost up the spirits of The Rotaractors, for what was to come next. The participants were grouped into teams, and they were given routes to follow, where along the way, they had to make sure the streets were as free of garbage as possible. The event was a success due to the collective effort of 252 participants, accumulating 681 Kg of Garbage. The event was just

By Rtr.Sachini de Silva Right now, eight million tonnes of plastic end up in oceans every year. The actions of just one of us seems to be trivial, but the knowledge of that there are hundreds and thousands of other people doing the same thing – that really does have an effect. -           Sir David Attenborough The Rotaract Club of the College of Chemical Sciences (RACCCS) hosted a clean-up on the 30 th of July 2019 at the Dehiwala beach under the main avenue of Community Services and sub avenue of Environmental Service. The Rotaract District 3220 Sri Lanka and the Maldives on celebrating fifty years of service plans to achieve fifty coastal clean-ups including river mouth cleanups in hopes of spreading awareness and connecting people through service. RACCCSS is exhilarated to have conducted a successful coastal clean-up project to cumulate to this cause. The month of July to the young chemists of RACCCS was hectic, that was bustling with plans for their annual extravagant tal

by Rtr. Yaqeen Ahamed Rejal Carom Bash, Flick Master and now GameBlast ’18, the much anticipated fundraising ‘GAME DAY’ of the Rotaract Club of CCS got bigger and better this time! With the inclusion of even more games, GameBlast ’18 saw a much higher turnout of excited players to the College of Chemical Sciences premises than ever before. Registrations commenced at 8.00 am with players arriving throughout the morning, the fact that it being a Tuesday not hindering anyone really eager of being there. The day kicked off with the Omi tournament at the rooftop of the Adamantane House and the carrom tournament down below at the basement parking lot. In the meantime, the PUBG tournament commenced in the e-sports room drawing a large crowd of both gamers and spectators alike. Friends turned into foes temporarily as they all battled themselves to be the last man standing. Sticking to tradition, a food and a mehendi stall were also put up and they surely did he

By Rtr. Gavindya Manamperi The annual cricket match between CCS and IIT was held on the 19th of August 2018, at the BRC grounds where the newly appointed board of directors and members of the CCS Rotaract Club enjoyed themselves as well as raised funds by setting up a bake sale. The Bake Sale was adorned with delicious kebabs, homemade food, instant mojitos and various other beverages. Both spectators and participants enjoyed the delicacies of our food stall, while getting their thirst quenched with our remarkable mojitos, ideal after hours of getting scorched in the hot sun. The bake sale was done as a Club Service project, it was quite a success as we raised a lot of funds at the end of the day.

Rotaract Zest                                                                                                      By Rtr. Lihini Jayasinghe The Rotaract Zest is an annually conducted project by the Rotaract Club of College of Chemical Sciences as a tradition to welcome the newly joined Rotaractors from the junior batch. For this year, 2018 it was held on the 9 th of July at the PPGL Siriwardana Auditorium. The day started off with an introduction to Rotaract using multimedia presentations. A special thanks goes out to Dr.Chinthaka Ratnaweera for taking his time to share a few words with us and for inspiring our new Rotaractors. The new Rotaractors were then made to introduce themselves with a little bit of personal information they were comfortable sharing to everyone present there as everyone was yet to get to know them. Following that the Immediate Past President Rtr. Dilendra Wijesekara shared her experiences she has gained through Rotaract with the audience a

Pack Away Hunger By. Rtr. Sanduni Nakandala Not to make you feel guilty, but please take a minute to think about what you threw out of your refrigerator this week: that piece of cake you could not finish, the yogurt that had passed its’ expiration date, the leftover food from last night. It all adds up. Now look around you, think of the people who are not privileged enough to even buy one meal per day. Can you even imagine having to wait till the shops close before you can “go home” because your “home” is actually a busy street by day? When you see the conditions that the poor & homeless people in your city live in, you will come to understand how lucky and fortunate you truly are to be able to live somewhere you are able to call home. Even if you are just renting a room and can’t afford a house yet, it is still much better than having to collect recycled bottles to make a living during the day, and scavenge for thrown away food in garbage cans. Once you start real

The Scavenger Hunt By Rtr. Pevindra Rathnayake I consider myself to be a PHD holder. A PHD in what? you may ask as I just turned 21 this year. I got a PHD in putting things off, waking up late, snoozing the alarm a hundred times before waking up, and getting things done at the last moment. Yes, I am a MASTER   procrastinator. July 22 nd  of 2018 is a day that I will never forget as I woke up to the sound of my alarm and for the first time in a really long time I did not hit snooze. The reason behind this sudden change was the scavenger hunt organized by the Rotaract club of CCS that was scheduled for later that day. I was excited to take part in it as it was my first ever scavenger hunt and my first big event after I joined the club. All the participants, made exclusively of first years/new members were randomly grouped into 5 groups of six or seven.   Every group was given the same to-do list with 22 tasks. The   tasks varied from   doable, like taking a selfie with