I4G @ Microsoft … Dream It, Learn It, Live It

Last weekend was a busy one for me. I had to prepare for the Imagine cup local finals , because I led one of the top 6 teams in Sri Lanka this year. At the same day I had to leave the county as well..  
Now don’t ask what happened to the Imagine Cup, or Did you get the cup? . Life’s not fair folks ! Not at all.

Microsoft has initialized a new programme called “ Innovate for good” arround the globe recently. For the Asia Pacific region it was held on Singapore.
The purpose of this programme to get the help from youth to generate Ideas and help them to make a world better place. There were 100 youth from Asia pacific region gathered to this at 28^th and 29^th April 2012.

I was bit late because of my schedule and I was the last person arrived from overseas.(According to the Taxi Driver).

Day One

Day one was at the the Shangri La  Rasa Sentosa resort. It was conducted by Bernie Jones (MD,Impact Corporate Training ) , and there were inspirational story from Ponheary Ly,from Cambodia.She was awarded the CNN Heroes award by in June 2010.

 

 
                        Bernie is advising for our team

                                  My Team Mates (Employment) ,May from HongKong, Joseph from Taiwan , Harry from Indonesia.

 

 

Inspirational Story from Ponheary

                                             Outside View of the Resort


                    Harry & Wenjie is trying to make a Mind Map for our solution

 
        My Team mates (without Jay and Joseph) with Clair Deevy,Citizenship Lead , Microsoft APAC .

Day Two

Day two was held at the Microsoft Singapore office . It was a great experience to me. I met several Microsoft officials from there. We had a mentor from there, John Galligan (Regional Director , Microsoft APAC). Wonderful person to talk and I have learned lots of things from him.

MTC(Microsoft Technology Center) is refurbished few weeks ago and we are the first groups that got the experience of it.
I was there to experience how Data Center works and fortunately I got a chance to get inside of that room (18 Degrees cool in there…. ) 

 In there we made a solution for the visually impaired people and did a five minutes presentation on it.

There was a inspirational story from the Efren ,A teacher and a social worker in the Philippines . He was named CNN Hero of the year in 2009.

                                           Playing with Microsoft Surface 


                                                        Inside MTC


It was a short tour . Therefore I did not get a chance to look around … (May be the next time )

Anyway my special thanks goes to Mr. Wellington Perera (DPE Lead, Microsoft Sri Lanka) for the support he has given me all these years(This phrase is not enough to thank him… ) & Mrs. Janakie Karunarathne (Manager – Community Affairs , Microsoft Sri Lanka ) for nominating me  for this event as well.
Apart from that my special thanks goes to  Clair Deevy, (APAC Citizenship lead , Microsoft APAC) for organizing such events in APAC region . A very dynamic figure I have ever saw. Bernie Jones for his interesting training sessions and My team mates at the event .

P.S :- Oh Forgot to mention …. There’s one person I need to thank, A friend , A brother, A Mentor. Prabath Aiyya  for the Shuttle Service !!! .