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View this email in your browser Namaste Balvihar Families, Hope you are bringing the warmth of bright colors and lights in to your homes this week to fight the weather outside! We are so thrilled with all the pictures and videos that you are sending us at HTSBalvihar@gmail.com and looking forward to see many more! We want to share with you two helpful information that will help your family! Hope you find it useful.   Ajai Ananthan is a local student from Parkland School District.  Ajai is an autistic young adult who discovered his interest in art accidentally in the summer of 2017 when he was struggling with anxiety and emotional regulation.  His mom introduced him to painting as form of therapy and he very quickly fell in love with it! With help and guidance from his Mom, Ajai started creating canvas art using acrylic paint and a variety of multi-media such as buttons, beads, beans, glitter and more.  At HTS Balvihar, we  support  Ajai by inviting him to have a booth during our events like Dussehra celebrations. We want to continue our love for his arts. Please purchase his creations by clicking on the tab below.  Dharshan Tharumia, is a local senior at Parkland High School from our community. He has just started a non profit organization called  STEMMingYouth Inc. It focusses on the growing need for youth exposure to science research, diminish barriers in STEMM fields, and maintain extracurricular opportunities for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on students in Grades 5-7 a fully cost-free, after-school, online research program. Participants will work on a science research project to present to peers from schools across the Lehigh Valley for recognition and other prizes and will be mentored by selective high school students who are advanced in science and have won several awards in science competitions. Please click on the tab below to learn more. The registration deadline is November 20, 2020. If there are any questions, please contact Dharshan Tharumia at dharshan@stemmingyouth.org or (484) 635-4487.  At Balvihar, we have always focused on inviting community members who can offer guidance in matters of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Music, Arts, Meditation, Social service so that our children can have a broader exposure to life using the mentors who are ready to offer their mentoring. We are uploading the arts and crafts that our Balvihar kids made in the last class on HTSBalvihar FB page, on HTSBalvihar Instagram handle. We will announce the Diwali Balvihar Contest winner family in a few days! Follow us and cheer the beautiful faces! Happy Diwali, Deepotsav, Deepavali!    Special Arts and Cards STEMMing Youth Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*