Malvika VOHRA

Biography

Currently working as the Head of the Science Department of Vasant Valley School (VVS), New Delhi, Malvika Vohra teaches Biology to Classes 9-12. She has documented the Tree Wealth of Lodi Gardens, a 100 acre park located in the heart of Delhi, along with Professor H.Y. Mohan Ram of Delhi University. She was involved with writing of STL (Scientific and Technological Literacy) material for a UNESCO-CSEC (Centre for Science and Communication) Project. In 2002, she initiated the Citizen’s Science program, aimed at making science more student friendly by sensitizing students to an array of scientific issues. Through talks on cutting edge technologies like Nanotechnology and Bioinformatics, film shows on Environmental Issues and photo-exhibitions on People living with HIV, she tried to connect science to our daily lives. Some of the events include Dr. Elizabeth Burns’s workshop on integrating Science with Art, Pankaj Sekhsaria slide show on the Environmental and Tribal Issues related to the Troubled Islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Krishnendu Bose’s screening of his film, Tiger Chronicles. Other initiatives include organizing a teleconference between VVS students and Astronaut Sunita Williams, creating awareness about a natural aquifer, Neela Hauz in Vasant Kunj and the participation of our Class 11 students in a 2- week long Science Summer School at the University of Melbourne. She is in-charge of the HIV-AIDS Awareness program at her school and has conducted training programs on Laws of Nature, Innovative Methods of Teaching and Assessments and Hands-on Science Teaching for Primary School Teachers. She has been a resource person for the LEAD International Training program on Systems Thinking, Negotiation, Leadership and Team Building skills.
In 2006, I was awarded the 2nd prize in an International Conference on Cognitive Systems for the Best Teaching Practices Showcase organized by NIIT. She has conducted Performance Audits for the Science Departments of New Era Public School, New Delhi and Scindia School, Gwalior. Recently, in 2008, she was nominated the 2nd best teacher in the country in the Senior School category of the TCS- Education World Teacher’s Awards.
Malvika became a fellow of the Carnegie Hall -Weill Institute program and attended a week long workshop at New York in May 2009 to Integrate Music into the School Curriculum.

This biography was last updated on July 16, 2009