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I am not talking about the IITs, I am talking about the normal engineering colleges in every state. The ones who are not blessed with tons of funding and very good staff, but blessed with many talented (misplaced) students.
I have seen many students, who has no direction, I myself had the same problem in college. I have (wasted/learned from) a lot of time running after every small technology that caught my interest. There was noone to give direction.
You dont need to teach them, you dont need to make them attend a 100 hr training session. You dont need to spend cash on them. All you need to do is to tell them whats cool now and give them something to pursue. The rest they will manage.
Dhaneesh, a student from a an engineering college in Trivandrum also had the same direction problem. He can code really well. But he didnt know what to do with his skills. I met him two days before Android SDK was released. I talked to him about the idea of making a cool app in android platform, and he is now learning the platform and wants to start a company developing applications on the Android platform.
May be this what technology evangelisation is all about. Showing them the opportunity and letting them rise to it.
Here in India there is a huge population to be converted. What do you need for that ? Someone to talk to them about it. Someone to show them the cool things they can do with their skills. We need evangelists.
Many companies have evangelists. But they is no common platform for technology evangelisation. With a combined effort from all the companies we can really convert the students, no matter what the technology is.
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Review on — December 6, 2007, 7:20 am