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JAINA Academic Bowl

To create a unique experience for the youth of our Jain centers across North America, by bringing them together in a fun, educational game-style format, whereby it allows them to increase their knowledge of Jainism and providing them an opportunity to forge new friendships with the Pathshala students nationwide.

  1. OUR YOUTH
  2. Parents, Teachers, Audience
  3. JAINA Convention

Participation by multiple Pathshala teams from various Jain Centers, their participants, coaches & the Admin team, along with their family members, have created a strong & positive impact at every JAINA Convention

  • Conducted successful JAB Tournaments in 2021 and 2023 with large number of attendees
  • Added extra team members
  • Recruited more moderators and conducted their coaching
  • Organized pre-tournament coaches meeting and training sessions
  • Gathered post-tournament feedback from the coaches
  • Worked on improvising the JAB Manual
  • To improvise the JAB Manual, have it printed and distributed before August 2024
  • Reach out to other Pathshala Centers new to JAB and encourage them to join the tournament
  • Create a new universal Pathshala Team to allow more youths nationwide be able to participate in JAB.
  • Modify JAB to have an efficient/ simplified format to be able to conduct the tournament in given time during the convention.
  • Follow JAB mission to help learn about Jainism in fun, interactive format and yet organize the tournament in an efficient manner
  • Recruit and train additional moderators before next tournament
  • Recruit and coach co-Admins to help out during the tournament
  • Aim for a bigger and better JAB tournament at the next convention
  • Need to reach new Jain centers to encourage their Pathshala to participate in JAB
  • Make it a more efficient and enjoyable experience for the JAB Participants during the tournament
  • During the Convention: Convenient space for JAB matches, Lunch preference for participants and families
  • Support our moderators who make the matches possible
  • Would like to get any feedback from other committees regarding JAB during the convention to help improve the flow if needed

Name

Role

Email

Phone

State/city

Shweta Daftary – TX

Chair Person

JAB- committee@jaina.org

972-897-8030

Dallas, TX

Harsh Shroff

Co-Chair

Harsh_Shroff@yahoo.com

312-532-2864

Chicago, IL

Jigar Shah

Appointed EC Liaison

MidEast-RVP@jaina.org

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Megha Doshi

Admin

meghandoshi@gmail.com

703-200-3080

Ashburn, VA

Raj Salecha

Admin

rsalecha@gmail.com

401-400-2030

Los Angeles, CA

Pravin Shah

Advisor

jainaedu@gmail.com

919-889-1900

Raleigh, NC

Bhavisha Shroff

New Teams coordinator

bhavishashah@hotmail.com

630-605-6220

Chicago, IL

Youth Committee members

Name

Role

Email

Phone

State/city

Deshna Doshi

Youth Admin

Deshna.doshi@gmail.com

732-896-2900

New Jersey, NJ

Harshita Jain

Youth Admin

Harshita.jain@yja.org

848-256-3088

New Jersey, NJ

Vaarin Shrof

Youth Admin

vshroff21@gmail.com

312-813-1216

Chicago, IL