Last weekend Sun was honored to support the National Association of Engineering Student Council Annual Conference at Cal Poly. An outstanding team of Cal Poly students, lead by Joel Hanson (affectionately known as "Precious") hosted 288 students - Engineers of EVERY discipline from 41 Schools (including a Qatar contingent and of course our friends from Canada).
Katy Dickinson hosted two sessions on Mentoring. She kindly slipped in some nuggets on the job hunt - always helpful in the current economy. Phil Bartholo gave our Sun Corporate Presentation with a brief focus on Java and Sunspots. Stephen Armijo of Sun Learning Services and myself rounded out the Sun representation for the main portion of the conference.
I had the unique pleasure of taking 12 AMAZING students, from several of our target schools, out to dinner on Friday night.
We had a great time and enjoyed talking about the industry, the current job market, internship opportunities and other things which can not be discussed without an NDA. Sorry folks...but you had to be there! :)
Sun's own Bill Vass, COO of SunFed presented during the closing banquet dinner and gave an awesome talk about Sun and the future of technology. A brilliant man sharing a wealth of information about technology in a way that even a GENETIC Engineer could easily understand. It was great to have someone of his caliber representing Sun to such a broad student population.
Next year the NAESC Annual Conference will be held at UT Austin, another target university for Sun. So, you're likely to see us represented at that event as well. I am looking forward to it.
Until then, we'll sit back and enjoy the memories of awesome networking, learning and innovation, good food and great fun.
To my friends at Cal Poly: A job well done! Let me know if you want help framing this great work on your resumes. :)
Katy Dickinson hosted two sessions on Mentoring. She kindly slipped in some nuggets on the job hunt - always helpful in the current economy. Phil Bartholo gave our Sun Corporate Presentation with a brief focus on Java and Sunspots. Stephen Armijo of Sun Learning Services and myself rounded out the Sun representation for the main portion of the conference.
I had the unique pleasure of taking 12 AMAZING students, from several of our target schools, out to dinner on Friday night.
We had a great time and enjoyed talking about the industry, the current job market, internship opportunities and other things which can not be discussed without an NDA. Sorry folks...but you had to be there! :) Sun's own Bill Vass, COO of SunFed presented during the closing banquet dinner and gave an awesome talk about Sun and the future of technology. A brilliant man sharing a wealth of information about technology in a way that even a GENETIC Engineer could easily understand. It was great to have someone of his caliber representing Sun to such a broad student population.
Next year the NAESC Annual Conference will be held at UT Austin, another target university for Sun. So, you're likely to see us represented at that event as well. I am looking forward to it.
Until then, we'll sit back and enjoy the memories of awesome networking, learning and innovation, good food and great fun.
To my friends at Cal Poly: A job well done! Let me know if you want help framing this great work on your resumes. :)