Exhibitions, Stalls and Information Desk

Saturday Jan 24, 2009

I am blogging after a long time now. Have been occupied with lots of things during the last two months.

One thing I have realized is that one of the best ways of promoting technologies and conveying a mass impact is by having a stall/exhibition/demo of some project/information desk in a public event. We did two of them in the last couple of months and met with a enormous response.

First of which was exhibiting a robotic project using Sun SPOT at the 78th Annual Session of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) which took place in Panjab University from November 21-23, 2008. This session had brought together over 400 scientists from all over India. Furthermore apart from the various dignitaries even students visited the entire exhibition. We decided to put forward a project done by Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Ankush Manuja and Sumant Vashisht - all final year electrical and electronics students of my institute. They made a prototype of a robotic arm that would work according to the movements of the human hand using the Sun SPOT technology. All the students, faculties, participants and even the media reporters were really attracted to this working prototype. Here are some of the images:









The latest interaction of such kind was done in the Techno-Cultural Fest of UIET: Goonj 2009 (16th-18th Jan 2009). We set up an Installation cum Information desk at the most happening area of the Fest. We distributed Datasheets, Opensolaris & Netbeans disks, goodies and provided knowledge of Various Sun Technologies including OpenSolaris, Netbeans, Glassfish, MySQL, VirtualBox, Lusture etc. Furthermore information regarding OSUM and SAI was also provided. We also had setup files of all these technologies and more for installation onto laptops. We even demonstrated Sun SPOTs and told about the advantages and applications of the same. Also, since the dates of the Code For Freedom contest was extended to 18th Jan 2009, we managed to promote it in the final three days as well. I would like to specially mention the name of Vikas Ruhela of IT 3rd Year in UIET for his contribution in information desk during the Institute Technical Fest. Here are some pictures of the same:

















Both these activities got an enormous response and so I hope to do more of these in the future.

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Posted at 09:57PM Jan 24, 2009 by Souvik Dasgupta in Sun
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