18th of May, 2021

Mini project Mania is an annual competition organized to enhance the imaginative capacities of individuals or, as the caption goes, “to sparkle creative minds”. Here the newbies of RACOUP are provided with an opportunity to present their project ideas in which top 10 individuals with the best ideas will be provided with an opportunity to execute them.

Some of the most notable ideas from past years’ competition winners magnified into massive projects are Captures, Fat to Fit and BITL (First Aid Awareness Project).

Usually, the fledglings of any club are very quiet and less interactive, more socially awkward, and less prone to come forth and share their ideas. Hence, this is a project that is mainly targeted towards the fledglings of RACOUP for them to get rid of their social anxiety, become more sociable, and allow their wings of creativity to soar.

This project allowed the newbies to make new friends among their batches & faculties. And also, this allowed them to broaden their knowledge on various aspects of life and develop their soft skills such as communication, organizational skills.

Due to the current Covid -19 pandemic plaguing our communities, our everyday lifestyle has become severely sedentary and monotonous due to long periods of quarantine and lockdowns. Therefore, organizing competitions such as these will help our members to lift their minds off the routinely stressful, constantly lingering thoughts of boredom, financial burden, academic burden, and whatnot and allow themselves to be excited and look forward to the near future.

Accordingly, an approximate sum of 130 responses submitted via google forms were narrowed down to about 30 ideas, with each categorized under a specific concept. Subsequently, the Executive Committee members of RACOUP further narrowed down the top 30 ideas, selecting the top 10 finalists by voting.

On the 16th May, a series of in-person discussions were held via Zoom, followed by a Q&A session to select the best 3 out of the top 10 finalist. Nonetheless, all top 10 finalists will be provided an opportunity to magnify their ‘mini’ ideas into massive projects in the near future.

Each of the finalists was given a specific time slot in which they were able to present their ideas and answer the various questions thrown at them by the judge board.

04th of April, 2021

'Rotaract Digital අවුරුදු' is the second virtual 'Awurudu' celebration organized by the Rotaract Club of the University of Peradeniya. It allowed us to be full of joy and enthusiasm after a long stressful period in life. Even though we had to celebrate 'Awurudu' on a virtual platform this year, it gave many exciting and unforgettable memories to everyone who participated. Moreover, it was happy to see our fellow Rotaractors from other universities joining us to enjoy the event.

As usual, we paid more attention to our traditional games and made some changes in the themes of some games to give a new experience to the participants since it was a virtual event. For example, everybody might be familiar with 'අලියාට ඇස තැබීම', but have you ever thought of replacing the Elephant with a Giraffe. It was more interesting than we expected. Moreover, regardless of always being dependent on the tradition, we made small changes in a few more games, such as replaced the Papaya with a Watermelon and asked the participants to guess the number of seeds in it. හොඳම හිනාව , හොඳම ඇඩීම ,නැණවත් අවුරුදු කුමරා සහ කුමරිය,විකට ඇදුම් ,අවුරුදු කුමරා සහ කුමාරි are some of the other games which increased the excitement of the event even more. Also, we conducted the 'tug of war' game on Facebook. As අවුරුදු කුමරා සහ කුමරිය event is a mandatory event at any 'Awurudu' function, online 'Awurudu Kumara' and 'Avurudu Kumariya' were selected based on an online voting system.

31st of January, 2020

Aloha 2020 – The Hawaiian Party was successfully held on the 31st of January 2019 at the Beacon-Resolute, Rajagiriya from 6.00 p.m onwards and it was an interesting joint initiative of the Rotaract Clubs of Cluster 04, belonging to Rotaract District 3220.

Since the cluster project was based on Club Service, the initial step was to ensure we have maximum involvement of our members. Meetings were held subsequently to make this a successful initiative. On conclusion, it was collectively decided to have an evening of music, food and dancing. To add value, we also included a few games. We named the project ALOHA and kept to the Hawaiian theme. This was to signify the Rotary Convention that was to take place in Hawaii. Plans were made to charge a minimum entrance fee to assure the maximum engagement of Rotaractors and to also encourage more institute-based clubs to participate. After the plan was drawn steps were taken to secure a date, venue and to start on the PR.

All activities such as games planned during the project were focused on inter-club bonding instead of within the club bonds. The Aloha king and queen is once such example. The concept of having a party as the cluster project was also aimed at more engagement within the clubs. This was proved as the attendance of the members of the cluster clubs exceeded 100 participants.