Texas State Tech Day 2009
I've been a little late in blogging about this event but Texas State Tech Day was a huge success. Tech Day 09 was an event with the purpose of bridging the gap of technology and students of all disciplines. The Texas State OSUM was able to get a wide range of speakers from Apple, Mantech, Guidance Software, University of Texas Center for Space Research, Texas State's Oleg Komogortsev and Sun Microsystems very own Conrad Geiger. Conrad kept the crowd on their feet covering a massive amount of Sun's identity in just under an hour. He really went the extra mile - bringing out hardware - giving the students a hands-on introduction to Sun. On top of it all we had the event partitioned so that on the side opposite of the speakers; booths were set up which included representatives from all of the above, plus Hitachi, Texas State Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Career Services, and D-pad.
We had a turnout of about 200 student/faculty visitors that day, and had about 20 students coordinate, and work the event. They were all rewarded with catering from Carinos. After hours the event turned into a sponsored gaming tournament with 20 students competing to take home 70$ of GameStop gift cards and some really cool Sun shirts. Please check out the pictures below!
