Sun Events at NCSU

University World Tour is a Success!

On February 7th, Alex began setup for an event that was bigger than either he or I could imagine. We had anticipated around 80 or so people to show up for the event. Instead, we had a turnout of over 150 people! Everything from the speakers to the pizza and drinks ran smoothly luckily for us.

The evening started with people sauntering up towards our little check in table. Those small numbers grew and grew.


Jeff Bates and Anita Sivakumar looking to help people check into the event at the start of the University World Tour.

Jeff Bates, a regional Sun employee in our area, was also on hand to help us out. We were handing out flyers and information faster than we could put the packets together. It was throughly amazing.

We had a huge classroom that we chose to hold our event in. As you can see from these pictures, it got filled up and it filled up fast!



LOTS OF PEOPLE!!!!!

Our event started off with Rima Patel talking about two different topics. She began with the Information age: the Next 10 years and then went on to the Bleeding Edge Demo. Many students and teachers were very attentive and interested with what she had to say.

Our next speaker talked about the topic of "Unleash the power of Java!". He did a Java demo that illustrated his points well too. He also went on to talk about Netbeans and how it compared to Eclipse. People seemed suprised by how similar the two were and expressed interest in switching. Solaris was the next issue of the evening and grabbed everyone's attention.

We all parted for a half an hour for a quick break for pizza and drinks. Unfortunately, due to so much turn out we ran out of pizza! But, everyone seemed throughly satisfied and ready to hear the last presenter of the evening after devouring their slices of pizza.

Sang Shin ended the evening with Java Puzzles. He put the students and teacher's minds to the test while asking a variety of Java questions. For instance, he put up a small snippet of code and asked what the code would output and why.


Sang Shin working with his laptop to display a slide on to the projector.

One student knew his Java well and answered every question but one!

After this, the last presentation was about the opportunties at Sun a person could find as a student. Many people were really interested about jobs at Sun and how they might better prepare themselves for a task. They asked questions during this segement about what classes or courses to take and in what direction they should go in order to pursue a career at Sun Microsystems.

Through out the evening, we gave away prizes by drawing people's names. Our last and grand prize was a $100 gift card to Best Buy!


The winner of the grand prize!

All in all, the event was a huge success and we hope to have an even bigger turn out next year!

- Anita Sivakumar

Posted at 11:33AM Mar 15, 2007 by anita0ncsu in Sun  |  Comments[0]