The all India MSP boot camp 2008 for was organized in Goa - also called as the “Pearl of the Orient” and the “Rome of the East”. It was a two and a half day event attended by 107 MSPs from across the country. For most of the MSPs this was their first Microsoft event.
The objective of the boot camp was to get to know the MSPs, provide them with training on rhythm technologies and have a lot FUN!
Day 1 - Most of the student arrived by 5 p.m. on the 10th of October. Since many were travelling long distances (>10 hours) the first day was planned to be light. We began the day with a talk on Live@Edu followed by the 5 minute skits by the MSPs on an imaginary product of their liking. The winner of the skits effectively convinced the gang out there to buy their product “Shoe .NET” which used the features of OOPs (Inheritance, Abstraction, Polymorphism and Encapsulation) to show how their shoe would create a winner out of everyone wearing it. Another skit worth mentioning was “Imagine Cap”. This team had the most impressive execution and a solid product. However they lost out since they took more than 1 hour to come up with the skit and hence got negative marks from the audience.
Day 2 - First half of the second day focused on Introduction to the MSP program, MSDN AA and Live@Edu. The second half was more interesting with technical sessions on -
The evening was party night with all the MSPs on the dance floor till mid-night and then on the beaches of Goa till about 2 a.m.
Day 3 - The last day of the boot camp had a couple of more technical session and demos -
The last session was the MSP survival guide :) by Reza where we discussed the dos and don’ts and shared information about some of the crazy emails that we keep getting from the MSPs.
All in all, it was great fun for one and all. Look forward the next all India boot camp in February or March 2009.
(For all those interested in being part of this fun community please visit the student partner website – http://www.student-partners.com. We just completed an all India hiring test for student partners but we will be publishing ways in which you can become one if you missed the test by 1st November 2008).