All About MSP Summit 2010
“I learn to share
I learn to care
I am an MSP
And I am proud to be.”
An event “MSP SummIT 2010” was organized by MDP Nepal in Hotel Space Mountain at Nagarkot. It was a two day event . Different sessions were run by different presenters in a unique and interactive way. There was no such thing as main attraction, coz every second was attraction and every idea was innovation. Nobody (esp. msp 2011) knew what was going on, coz nothing was predefined to us , every second was a surprise to us. All we could say was “what” , “hey!”, “but” , “oh! Ok” . “cool” , “great” , “wow” .
converting caterpillars to butterflies
It was the first session of day 1 , as we got into the hall . Allen sir welcomed us and told us various brain storming things . The intro part was cool , I jot down some of his words like “It starts with one…” and “I love the word challenge”. Then we went on to some serious topics(by serious I meant attentive part) like pallete of learning tools by Microsoft (office,autollarge,Photosynth, bing etc) , multipoint power point, live@edu, worldwide telescope, songsmith, kodu game lab etc. Project NATAL was cool of all. Then, a funny *** interesting game was played in which each individual was given a blue piece of paper with half name of Microsoft products or programs written. We had find the other part of that product and introduce each other with explaining 3 key points each of product and partner. I enjoyed a lot in this game, and I think everyone did.
Certifications
Ravi Chandra Koirala sir showed his presenation skills in this session. Allen sir’s one quote “ther’s only two kind of people for me, developer and ITpro” was well illustrated by ravi sir. I knew well about the certification path of ITpro courses. Why get certified was the question raised in that session. Well , the answer was in that presentation.
How team work is important?
At 2:45 pm , all msp’s 2010 and 2011 mixed were divided into 8 groups. All were given a product or program to choose and act upon. We as group 7 choose msp program as our topic. Our team members included junu(kist),gulshan(kec), ajit Mishra(cit) , me and 3other msp’s . 15 minutes were allocated 4 preparation and 3 minutes for presentation. Dipendra sir was our mentor, who contributed the basic theme. Then we all contributed our brains, as it was team work. I and junu did the jingle part which I wrote in the beginning of this blog, gulshan’s social networking idea of promotion was cool in which I was “what’s on ur mind” and “like” character.
Microsoft version of sajha sawal with Rajendra Khetan
The fifth session was “discussion with rajendra khetan. As laxmi mittal is to India, rajendra khetan is to Nepal for me. Without him no liquor would gain popularity in Nepal, and also as sabhasad he gains a plus point in being youth icon.
“टुलनात्मक् र पेरिसपर्धात्मक छमता सफल मान्छे को गुण हो”
– rajendra khetan
I asked him a question about lacking entrepreneurship in youths , rights for youths in new constitution and old education system. Not much satisfying but true answer he gave. The session was so interactive that it went on for one and a half hour . national TV nepal1 was recording the youth icon’s session.
“सरकार बुढा हरुको , सम्भिधान् युवा हरुको”
-Rajendra khetan
I was so shocked to hear that he hasn’t even completed his B.com 1st year yet he is a business tycoon. His story of success provoked all of us to do something for our country.
Worldwide telescope
Prashant Dhewaju sir showed us the magic of worldwide telescope . Around 8 p.m (may be) the presentation started , no one had the time to watch the watch because it was so interesting .
www.worldwidetelescope.org
The Social Network Lever
Allen sir showed in this presentation how we can use social networking sites to be connected and create awareness. We knew that a MSP page was created by Microsoft Corp. for MSP's.
Also, we knew about Students lounge, channel 8 and channel 9 and MSP tweet.
http://www.msstudentlounge.com/
Then, again it was drama time because it was 1 am and we wee feeling little sleepy , so to engage us i think this idea was made. So, again we all were divided into 4 teams. Each team with one concept of relating Microsoft technology with day-to-day life. I was in group 1 and our topic was family safety which is a service included from Windows Vista onwards. I had a g8 time because it was so interactive that everybody in the group knew each other so fast. And it happened with each group so no one was left unnoticed or inactive.
The last line i said was "parent control and one care family safety makes family safety better." our mentor were Gandip sir and dipendra sir, two brainy people in one group. So the next day had already started.
SALSA DANCE
As soon as i heard now it's salsa time , my feets began to move. The tables were put aside to make space for dance venue. The dance teacher taught very well . After some steps , we had to choose a partner for dance, Surakshya Nepal accompanied me. And others too were dancing with the beats. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...and repeat. Allen sir too was trying to dance, i guess so. Lastly at the end , dance teachers(sir and mam) gave a powerful dance performance that everyone was stunned.
Then an agreement was made to sleep 4 hours, and gather at the conference hall at 8 am. But i hardly slept 1 hour and at 5 am i along with other msp's went to see tower sunrise. On the way i captured Nagarkot in the lenses as far as possible. After some funny moments we reached conference hall.
DAY 2
The second day started with a quick review of day 1. Today was an important day because today faculty member also came from respective college. I and sabita received MSP sash from our Faculty teacher Trailokya Raj Ojha . Also Microsoft Wall was handed over to us at the same time. I felt so proud because i received the MSP title from my faculty teacher and past MSP of 2010 Bikash Acharya.
Bingo time
I won second row while playing bingo , which too was interesting in the two day event. I got a chance to choose my prize from the bunch of prizes( i.e., t-shirts, caps, watches etc) and i choose book of Windows Server 2008 because books are humans best friends.
Codeplex
The next session was codeplex which was fully informative to all students where we talked about snippet , pptplex(add on), Microsoft and open source. I knew that snippet means a small part of whole large code and also i knew that Microsoft today is the biggest open source provider in world. For those who don't know about codeplex, codeplex is a Microsoft's open source hosting website.
www.codeplex.com
Terai TV
Mr. Janak of terai TV showed us some light on media house. i was shocked to hear that 32 TV channels are registered and 10 are already on air. Nothing is impossible, isn't it?
Windows Intune
Gandip Khaling sir was the presenter on Windows Intune.
NCELL
NCELL also gave a service presentation on the offers they were providing to microsoft as corporate service with minimum cost. Also i was happy to hear that NCELL uses Microsoft's Operating System.
Great event= solid promotion+good infrastructure+great content+super speaker
These are the secret ingredient of great event shared by Allen sir.
MTA
I enjoyed Ravi sir's presentation on MTA(Microsoft Technology Associate) which was very informative.
MSP of the year 2010
How can i forget "Samant Manandhar" , the MSP of the year 2010 . he truly deserves it because it was all his hard work and passion that was evaluated.
Overall , I want to conclude this blog saying " i wish summit to be organized every month". haha,
I will never forget summit.