Anyone could be a GEEK! The recently concluded 2nd ICEAN Congress proved it. IC students from all year level gathered to participate with this event which is also tagged as “DevCon in USEP” as Society of Information Technology Students is in partnership with DevCon Philippines.
It started with a thought, and later on plan for it. The moment DevCon was introduced to us; I had already in mind that I want to bring it to our school.
After a week of exchanging emails from Ms. Diane Suico, the Executive Vice-President of DevCon, DevCon in USEP got its date – 26th of November 2010.
Yours truly with Ms. Diane Suico, DevCon Executive Vice President
2nd ICEAN Congress and DevCon in USEP started with a blast. Though we started late, still the organizers (SITS) managed to catch up with the schedule.
The first speaker Mr. Eric Su energized the students with his tips on Getting Jobs the Awesome Way! It then followed by with an amazing video from Mr. Milvene Mineses of Simply Gray Studio and shared to us some basic knowledge about Photography and Photoshop. He even showed us actual tools and equipments that awed the students for its overwhelming cost. After that, Edmund Lee and Rojenn Ortiz from Offsourcing Inc. took over and discussed about how important a Resume is and also gave their tips and strategies on how to write a good Resume. A group activity for the graduating and junior students was conducted for a short Resume Writing workshop.
Our dean, Engr. Val A. Quimno formally opened the afternoon session and welcomed the DevCon team. An Introduction to DevCon was made by Mark Maglana that gave an understanding what DevCon community is all about. You now graduated, now what?, one great question from our Keynote speaker Edmund Lee Offsourcing Pres., which is a very inspiring talk especially for the graduating students on deciding their future careers.
Traditional DevCon sessions which are the Lightning Talks a quick and brief talks yet very informative, Birds of a Feather and Hackathon followed after. The topics of the Lightning Talks are:
· IC on Tour by Veniza Joy Macaraeg
· Turning a Passion into a Career by Tina Ortiz, Offsouring Inc.
· Umbraco, an open source ASP.NET CMS by Jong Jison
· Piclyf by Eric Su
· HTML 5/ CSS3 by Dante Michael Afrondoza
· Windows 7 Mobile Development by Rodney Hao
Freebies and prizes were given away for question-and-answer portions and in-between periods. Thanks to Microsoft, G2iX and DevCon for being our sponsors.
The wit and the arguing skills of ICEANS showed off during the Birds of a Feather face-off between Internet Browsers Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Chrome team was declared as the winner and earned DevCon shirts as prize.
Simultaneously with the BOF, the Hackathon activity was held. Everyone joined in the countdown and sparked up the liveliness of the Social Hall. The winners brought home flash disks and a mouse pads from G2iX.
The event ended with picture takings. The students went home with loads of new learning and smiles on their faces.
Hackathon Winners with Edmund Lee of Offsourcing Inc.
As an organizer, I could say that I’m relieved that all my preparations paid off. Thanks to all my co-officers and faculty who supported me. Also, I want to send my sincere gratitude to DevCon for gracing us with a set of fun field activities.
It was a wonderful experience putting up the whole event that I will never forget.
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