In todays edition of Mint The Wall Street Journal there is an article that I have written. The article is about Bridging the gap between students and industry with the help of camps like Barcamp MU3 that took place on 8th March.
Technology is changing at such a fast pace that it is difficult for an individual to keep tabs on everything, as I have mentioned in the past as well that camps like these give you a snapshot of the world around you (or let me put it this way gives you a heavy dose of all the technology related things that you missed or are still missing). As a student of technology it becomes even more difficult to keep oneself updated all the time, as the syllabus doesn't cover these new advancements. So for students such camps are of even more importance as they get to know about things that they are going to face when they will step out of the college.
I would suggest:
colleges/institutes should keep such camps at least once a semester,
as a student you should ensure that you attend such camps,
and to professionals working in the technology industry do visit these camps as the energy levels and enthusiasm that campers carry is infectious!
Thanks to Namitha and the Mint team, you guys are doing a great job.
Tarun Chandel
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Quite true!! The rapid pace at which technology changes leaves one a little dazed, and before you can catch up with the current stuff, techworld moves ahead... adn then there are times, when it all happens without you ever knowing about it. Such camps definitely would help!!
Good one.
"Lage raho Tarun Bhai" (Mumbai style)
Nice post man... Congrats!!
I am coming to mumbai tomorrow... will atch you on friday.
wow.. this is some achievement... keep it up :)
Well..........
Tarun - The Blogger is in full swing.
Keep writing good & interesting stuff!
Hi Tarun,
This is Himanshu here, an Entrepreneur[just 2 months old].I came to your blog,obviously through Mint :) We are in a deserted place right and since I am an avid BarCamper and Blogcamper, I have plans to organize a BarCamp in Indore(where we are located).So would definitely mail you if we need support.
Your article was nice and I would say such BarCamp's should be taken to normal colleges so that Entrepreneurial atmosphere gets built up there as well :)
-Himanshu Sheth
Congrats! U gotta give all the participants at BCM a treat ;)
Cooooooool! Keep walking (Jonny Lever? ) [:)]
Like everything else in world there is 80/20 or 90/10 rule.
Those most for whome gap needs to be bridged, need only to spend time in old fashioned thing called a computer lab while they are in college. How many of colleges and students actually take last semester project seriously! That was supposed to bridge the gap.
We need to learn from west. They have programs which are as practical as theoretical. Through doing and crafting, those guys become tinkerers unlike here where getting percentages are all that matter.
--> Sam: Such camps surely help people to meet and interact and that in itself is a big step. It also helps in bringing that community feeling among participants, I remember Renaud talking about the importance of community at the camp. It is so important to foster that feeling of community and it can lead to great results.
--> Rohit: thanks man.
--> Ranjan: Thanks and looking forward to meet and do some good old days type of coding and geeky things.
--> Chandoo: Thanks. The bigger achievement is to get a comment from you :)
--> Bhavya: Ma'm I will try to make that a habit like you :)
--> Himanshu: You can mail me anytime, it will be really good to have a barcamp indore :)
--> Harsha: Sure, they were a bunch of really talented guys and girls.
--> Manjari: Thanks. Johny Lever ye kahan se aa gaya ???
--> Gaurav: There were teachers at the camp as well, I hope they will learn and foster a learning culture.
--> Me: Students have a lot of enthusiasm and energy. But the problem is that they don't really get good mentors who could guide them though the projects. I remember running for weeks to get hold of guys who could tell us some background of how do cos track bugs, the project that we were doing (remember Manjari, oh I guess you were busy making the login use case :) return a userid after user enters a username). There were so many things on net but we needed someone to handhold us through the initial phase. Such interactions give students access to such people.
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