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Tech yatra, everybody invited!

The Microsoft Community Bandwagon received a warm welcome in city campuses

BUS WORD The Microsoft Community Bandwagon

A luminously coloured bus was sighted doing rounds in twin cities' engineering college campuses. Students who flocked to it also got a chance to add a dash of hue choosing from the Windows colour palette apart from checking out new on the software front.

After a successful run through south India, starting in Bangalore and moving on to Chennai, Coimbatore and Erode, the Microsoft Community Bandwagon arrived in town recently. And how? Loaded with software and resources the bandwagon toured colleges presenting demos, talking about MS academic programmes, giving out software and creating lots of excitement around them, after it was flagged off by Srini Koppolu, vice president and managing director, Microsoft India Development Centre, at the Microsoft Campus at Gachibowli.

A part of Microsoft's global initiative of working closely with education communities, developing technology, tools, programmes, and solutions to help address education challenges, while improving and enhancing learning opportunities, the Microsoft Community Bandwagon sure got the students at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology (GRIET), Gurunanak College of Engineering, C.V.R. College of Engineering of Technology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) and other colleges hooked on.

Visual Studio and Sequel Server 2005 got students enthused. As did Microsoft's student initiatives - Imagine Cup, Code4Bill and Academic Projects Program. The student community launch - Date with. NET found wholehearted participation. Talk about technology reaching classrooms. Way to go.

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