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To an undergraduate University is a highly competitive environment. So we need develop our personal talent with academic knowledge will be stronger for future life.

Personal Progress Development (PPD) is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential.

Advantage of personal progress development skills

This is identifying the skills you need to set life goals which can raise your confidence, and lead to a more fulfilling, higher quality life. Plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and decisions for your future to enable personal authorization.

This contains information and advice that is designed to help you to think about your personal development and ways in which you can work towards goals and your full potential.

This develops your teamwork skills and techniques. And also develops leadership skills in teamwork.

Paper tower

Paper tower is group work that our class friends made at our PPD lesson at last Monday. They were divided into three groups by our lecturer. There were two groups had eight members and another one group had seven members. Then our lecturer gave them 12 A4 papers, tape and scissor for each group. After that they went out from our lecture room. In out place our lecturer gave separate places for each group. Then they had get fifteen minutes for stand their paper tower that means they should built a paper tower from that 12 papers and the tallest tower builders should be the winner.

Through this activity we can improve

• Leadership quality 
• Planning sense 
• Time management

The paper tower is really enjoyable activity it was very useful activity for develop our personal development skills.

What you learn from PPD?

• Independent Living Skills
• Personal Development skills
• Working with others in groups and teams, both formal and informal.
• Preparation for Work
• Leadership skills
• The ability to use one's time effectively or productively, especially at work.
• Working with others to identify, define and solve problems, which include making decisions about the best course of action.
• The ability to convey or share ideas and feelings effectively.
• Make eye contact.
• Monitor your body language.
• The activity of delivering speeches
• The activity of skill of writing.
• Practice active listening skills 

University of Kelaniya

He University of Kelaniya has its origin in the historic Vidyalankara Pirivena, founded in 1875 by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera as a Centre of learning for Buddhist monks. With the establishment of modern universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972, and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978.

The University of Kelaniya is committed to provide high quality education and to conduct high impact research which will contribute significantly to the enhancement of existing knowledge in various fields of Humanities, Medicine, Science, Social Sciences, Commerce & Management and to the development of the country.

Vision
To become a Centre of excellence in creation and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable development.

Mission
to nurture intellectual citizens through creativity and innovation, who contribute to the national development.

Lava River & standing on the paper

Our lecture gave a papers to each team to take the challenges. In the first challenge all team members should stand on a given paper.

In 1^st round our lecturer has given a command, we all have to stand on paper. She will notice our actions on paper. It was a challenge for every crew to take the feet off the paper.

In the 2nd round sheet was folded into two, it was difficult to keep all the legs on the paper, our commitment descended down. 3^rd round was folded into three. 

In the 2nd challenge all team members have to get safely across the lava river. Participants do not touch the river, so you have to use the sheets for security.

We were able to pass our members to the 1^st round. We try to be individuals or two to across the river. But in the 2^nd round we could not do that. All the members of the team had to participate in the same time.

If any group is out of the paper for a specified period of time, a group will removed from challenge.

Finally the winner was concluded by total points.

Learning outcomes

• Communication
• Cooperation
• Leadership
• Problem solving

 It is very fun and exciting game.

Egg protecting cover

In our PPD lesson we did another wonderful activity that called egg protecting activity. 

Our lecture divided pupils in equal three teams and gave an egg to each team. We need to protect that egg from breaking when we throw that from the top with given five A4 sheets and cello tape. She gave 45 minutes time to make it. 

Life Goals

At this time we made a life-key activity in our lecture. We focus on the goal of our lives as a separate activity at our lecture. Our lecturer told us to come with a bristle board, in which we should design a clear description of our living goals. So we first divide our goals into three main categories.

1. Academic goals 
2. Professional goals 
3. Personal goals

Barter Puzzle

In our PPD session we did another interesting activity as Puzzle.

We were divided into three groups, and I was in the third group.

Then our miss asked a person to come front from each group. She gave an advertisement paper to that each person and asked to see it as a group for a minute. She once again asked another person come front from each group. She gave a scissor to each two persons and to cut that advertisement paper into hundred pieces. Then mixed the hundred pieces asked together and toke ten pieces in each group and mixed that also with other groups. Then all the groups were asked to solve the puzzle in 45 minutes.

Learning outcome

• Working as group. 
• Planning before working.
• Time management.
• Situations handling.
• Decision making. 

Field Trip

2017 December 09 and 10th, the all I and II years Software Engineering students successfully participated in their field trip. There were at about  75 students and 3 lectures were participated that outbound training program at Trincomalee Navy Camp.

These are life long memories for me in my first year.