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Got the ‘App’titude Challenge from Google, India

Sai Prasad — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:37:00 +0000

Google India and Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi has come forward with “Got the ‘App’titude Challenge”. This unique, first time effort is looking for student, faculty and alumni leaders to implement Google Apps within their respective campuses, with the objective of providing access to powerful communication methods, and improving collaboration capabilities through tools like Gmail, shareable calendars, online spreadsheets and online documents.

In addition to the challenge being unique learning opportunity for students, it will also show them to exercise and hone their research, communication and negotiation skills in a real time situation, since they will be required to develop and execute a product positioning and marketing plan for a targeted audience in order to implement Google Apps at your campus.

In order to participate in the challenge, students, faculty and alumni are encouraged to form teams and follow the guidelines mentioned below:

Sign up for the challenge by September 15, 2008.
Get approval from the college’s administration to implement Google Apps by October 15, 2008.
Work with the college IT department to implement Google Apps by December 15, 2008.
Achieve the highest level of Google Apps usage among all participating colleges by January 31, 2009 to be declared the challenge winner!

In case of any queries please visit the Got the “App”titude website or feel free to write into the team at admin@GotTheAptitude.com.

Regards,
Sai Prasad Ch
saiprasad.ch@gmail.com
http://csprasad.blogspot.com

Things to Remember for IBM ISL Intern

Sai Prasad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Today, a senior shares his experience about experience at IBM ISL for intern last summer.. Some suggestions from him about the IBM ISL Intern I’m about to take in this summer :

Do the documentation on regular basis on par with the coding.
Also, include “Problems Faced By Me” during development in documentation
Listen to technical seminars well…. They have to form base for you final year project.
Interact with the team for seminars. Also, get contact details if possible and stay in touch with them
Have a good relationship with your technical mentor.
Don’t return to college without Pre Placement Offer (PPO).

Microsoft India calls for Interns

Sai Prasad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:36:00 +0000

Microsoft Corporation, India is calling for internships for students persuing third year engineering in B.Tech computer science or information Technology. Only students in VI semester can apply. Of course, the opportunity is off campus a.k.a. you need not worry about your institute’s placement section rules. Internship is to be done between 6^th and 7^th Semester term break.Microsoft would pay you a stipend of Rs 25000 per month.
The selection process is: Aptitude test and Technical test on 17^th Feb’08 Technical interviews during subsequent weeks.

You would be tested on the below given topics during Microsoft intern selection process

Knowledge of C / C++ programming
Knowledge of Algorithms, data structures, Pointers, arrays, linked lists, recursion, Tree
Debugging of a code snippet

For more details, visit this site : http://www.merittrac.net/microsoft

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in Technozion ’08

Sai Prasad — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:27:55 +0000

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam visited our Campus NIT, Warangal (http://www.nitw.ac.in) on Jan 26th, 2008 on account of Technozion ’08 the technical fest of NIT, Warangal. Eventhough His stay did not last for much time, that 1:30 hr stay changed alot in NIT, Warangal.

The students who have attended his addressing are all mesmerized for His excellent, inspiring and thought-provoking speech. All the brains of those students started working in the right direction following his speech. Students started studying seriously instead of playing AOE, CS and watching moivies. They all are enlightened by His words. Hope this enlightment stays longer…
The glimpses of His speech can be found here.

HIs Excellency, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam also interacted with the faculty members of the College. His topic was VISION OF NIT, WARANGAL. He also gave glimpses of INDIA VISION 2020 and the way NITW could drive its students towards that.

I’d like to quote a statement from his speech which really inspired me – “The most important part of the education is to imbibe the confidence among the students is the spirit of “we can do it”.”

His Speech on ‘Interaction with the Faculty of National Institute of Technology, Warangal’ can be found here.
Hope to see more Kalams’ in the future…

Good Day,
Sai Prasad

Technozion ’08

Sai Prasad — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:42:24 +0000

sorry guyz for keeping you waiting for almost a week time ……
The last week, it was a complete festive and a busy week for me (along with all in my college), for the wekend was Technozion ’08 the Annual Technical Fest of NIT, Warangal….
The most important event for TZ ’08 was the visit of the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam to our college…
This visit was the main factor to attract large masses of people towards participating in TZ’08 making it a big success……

But, coming to my point of view, TZ’08 doesn’t deserve it.. The TZ website (http://www.technozion.org) couldn’t be worse in any dimension. No event was upto the point of excellence and couldn’t reach the expectations.

But this time, the accommodation and other facilities provided to the visitors was far better compared to the last year ….
Anyways, the TZ is finished for this year and the organization of the fest for the next year is in our batch’s hand… Hope we do better …. : -)