MSP Orientation 2017 : A Great Experience with MICNepal

Behind the Scene

It was rainy day, and I was rushing towards the Staff college’s Main Hall. Soon, I checked-in to confirm my attendance and MICNepal’s staff handed over a Tote bag (with a t-shirt, pen, and notebook).

Ms. Suchitra Maharjan was the first person I interacted and she asked me to follow her. It was Bhrikuti hall where the orientation program was running.

No sooner, I entered the hall, I saw lots of new people with blue t-shirt with tag “We make Computers Work for you”.

It’s great. I was ready to explore the full-day orientation program with our Mentor Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, Country Director of Microsoft.

Introduction with New Friends

To be comfortable with new students, we were given tasks to choose a random partner. We have had short introduction. Then, we draw the animal avatar(picture) of our partner (which matched him), paste it on back of him/her. Then we presented the short introduction of our partner. Also, mentioned the reason why we chose particular avatar for our partner.

MICNepal’s Welcome Session Starts

Once again, Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar welcomed us. He gave an introductory presentation with an overview of MSPs Program.

1. Student Passion: The ideal theme of this program is about student’s passion. When Technology becomes Absolute Passion, then students can take themselves to next level (Converting Caterpillars into Butterflies) cooperating with Microsoft Student Partners Nepal.

2. Missions/ Goals: To inspire, nurture & grow students into Technology leaders of future.

• Inspire MSPs to learn use and evangelize the technologies now and through the careers.
• Give MSP a compelling and relevant certificate offer that will help students to gain skills.
• Relationship with MSP via Mentorship program
• Be seen as an asset and badge of honor on MSPs resume.

Mr. Allen also told us about the bitter truth once we get selected as MSP. He tried to show us an example by drawing two applicants Namrata and Anshu (same college ). Allen sir told them only one will be chosen and decide themselves who will be the one. As an answer, both pointed at each other and revealed us to be the best friend.

Who is the Next MSP (Microsoft Student Partner) ?

We also had a discussion about MSP selections, “What qualifies us to be an MSP”. We need to answer what qualities do we need to be a Microsoft Student Partner.

TGG Challenge : Group Division for Presentation

As a part of TGG ( The Generation Green) Challenge, participants divide into several groups. Each group needs to give a presentation in different 5 categories: Climate, Water, Forest, Wildlife, and Food. Then, we had to discuss the problems under our topic and present our idea to solve those problems.

Presentation Time

It was the presentation time after the launch was over. We sketched some ideas.

Global Warming is the leading cause of Climate change. And we all know its consequences so we need a mechanism to control it.

So our main ideas were to build a notifier for vehicles which alerts the people if their vehicles is producing more carbon products.

This notifier changes the technology, changes the climate, change the technology and changes the smiles of the world.

Finally, we presented the ideas splitting the contents to each member. Other groups presented with lesion giving drama.

Video Presentation

Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar also gave a session on various contests that MSP performed, motivational videos, and uses of cloud (Microsoft Azure) in short. We went through different videos like Give me some sunshine, and others. We also got a chance to listen to this song.

Interactive Session

Then we had an opportunity to interact with Allen sir, we asked him different questions. We all knew, only the best of the best will be selected as MSP. We also asked about the opportunities for the student what if they are not selected. Allen sir told us the story about the student who tried for 4 times and but still didn’t got selected because each year even better applicants appeared in front of him. Not only, this another student who participated in MSP orientation and got selected, and never came back to MICNepal after getting the title.

With this we came to know, it’s not all about winning just the title of MSP rather it means a lot “When one spent good time helping, sharing experiences, cooperating with others during and after being an MSP.