it was a hot and humid friday evening. the temperature of the classroom reached 35 celsius/95 fahrenheit with 100% humidity. it was fully packed with about 300 students from the south china university of technology (SCUT) school of software. they were mostly first or second year undergraduate students . the campus is located in the messy guangzhou university city in guangzhou china which is also the home of ten higher education institutions and about 150,000 students.
the event was the commencement of the sun club in SCUT. it was one of the first sun club in greater china with many more being planned. the objective of the sun club is to foster, promote and organize various activities such as contests, workshops, seminars and other events revolving around sun technologies and its values.
tae kim and i were invited to speak in this event with the students about sun and a topic on IT career. hmmm, a topic on IT career with first and second year undergraduate students in a hot and humid friday evening?! it must be a group of enthusiastic students and sure they were. the discussion was lively and was carried in english, mandarin and even some cantonese. here are some of the selected slides:
