Imagine Cup Local Software Design Activation Started
I’m very excited to tell you that we have started the Imagine Cup Local Software Design activation in Bangladesh. We have plan for doing boot camps in 11 universities across the country and 1 mega boot camp for those where we cannot go.
From 12-14 of December, North South University Computer Club organized an IT Carnival and Microsoft was it’s workshop partner. When we got the offer from them, we didn’t miss the opportunity to run a campaign for 3 long days. They gave us a stall where we had MSPs talking about Imagine Cup. We made one laptop available with internet connection to check out the worldwide IC website and Terms and Conditions (as local site was not ready on that day). We got 1.2K+ visitors to our stall and most of them were very keen to explore the program. Apart from students, many senior teachers were there to explore IC.
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On 13 December we did our first boot camp on IC in North South University auditorium. I started with The Power of Students presentation (thanks to David Lim for his coaching on that) and later when they are excited I started talking on Imagine Cup. As none of the students and teaches had any idea what Imagine Cup is, I started with explaining about the competition & then demonstrate few 2110 participant videos to make them understand what innovation means and how they can change the world.
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We had 300+ students and few teachers in the room and as soon as I’m done with my presentations, they started shooting question at me. I was very happy to see their interest on the program. Not only the students, but also teaches were eager to learn about IC. To be honest, one hour was not enough for them.
Personally I’m very excited and I hope we will see some good results in coming days. Let’s wait and hope for some exciting results.
Written by:
Omi Azad | Developer Evangelist | Microsoft Bangladesh Ltd.