IDA Young Tech Fest is an annual 2-day festival featuring exhibitions and social events in celebration of all technological things. With all things technological there, and roughly 7 educational institutes showcasing their technological innovations, it was a sight to behold!
Over 2000 attendees participated in the Young Tech Fest to learn more about technology and how to shape the future. From tinkering with wearable tech and robotics, to taking a trip down Singapore’s tech evolution, the participants were engaged in all things technological.
Microsoft was there on-site to showcase the technologies available and to encourage students to start their very first web blog using Microsoft Azure. I was also there helping out with curious students.
Halley, Shi Qin and Ling Hui were on-site to help out with any queries from the general public as well as activating their student benefits.
Students can learn more about how to go about activating their benefits at Funpack if they missed it during the event.
Within the funpack that Microsoft is offering, I would like to specially highlight the DreamSpark and Azure offerings in which Microsoft offers free software and the cloud platform to students to help with their learning process. To activate your free offerings, first proceed to Step One and log in using your Microsoft email account. After verifying your student status, proceed to Step Two to verify your phone number via OTP.
I had lots of fun discussing and chatting about Azure with like-minded students who were all passionate about IT just like me!
Microsoft also held workshops teaching students how to code up a simple game using Kodu. Our friendly helpers were also on-site to help out with those who needed guidance.
There were also workshops held to teach participants about how to host a simple resume website using Azure.
Here, we have Terence, who is our Technological Evangelist, teaching participants how to set up the resume website.
Many people were at Microsoft booth to learn more about Azure or were they? 🙂
Younger students who were in for something fun found a Xbox One loaded with Halo waiting for them!
Finally we ended the day with a group picture of our entire team who worked hard for these 2 days!
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