we are GEEKS!

The 2nd ICEAN CONGRESS was another successful event for the Society of Information Technology Students (SITS) and the League of Mayors of the Institute of Computing held at the University of Southeastern Philippines' Social Hall last November 26, 2010(yesterday).

Here is the program

8:00 - 8:30	Attendance
8:00 - 9:00	Opening Ceremonies
9:00 - 9:30	Getting jobs the AWESOME way - Eric Su
9:30 - 10:00	Photoshop Seminar - Milvene Mineses
10:00 - 11:30	Resume Writing - Offsourcing Inc.
11:30 - 1:00	Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30	Registration(DevCon in ICEAN Congress)
1:30 - 2:00	Opening Program Opening Remarks: Engr. Val A. Quimno Intro to DevCon: Mark Magalona
2:00 - 2:20	Keynote Speaker - Edmund Lee
2:20 - 3:200	Lightning Talk -Veniza Joy Macaraeg on "IC on Tour" -Tina Ortiz on "Turning a passion into a career" -Jong Jison on "Umbraco" (Open Cource ASP.NET CMS) Eric Su on "PicLyf" -Rodney C. Jao on Igniting Developers for Windows Phone 7
3:20 - 3:30	Intermission
3:30 - 4:30	BOF (Birds of a Feather) - Internet Browser
4:30 - 5:30	Hackathon
5:30 - 6:00	Closing Program

But the schedule was not properly implemented due to certain problems.


It was very fun and informative especially the different events handled by the DevCon (Developer's Connect): Lightning Talk, Birds of a Feather. and Hackathon(which I had the opportunity to join).


Hackathon is somewhat(or is) like a programming contest. When we knew that our co-competitors will be three groups of higher years(which includes the smartest of their batch), we said to ourselves, "wa na ta ani bay!". But we still tried to solve the given problem. The problem was to create a Flickr search interface that will accept input then show to the user the pictures that relates to the input of the user coming from the Flickr website using Flickr's API. We tried really hard - but we failed :( We were stuck on the interface only. We didn't know how to use the API to retrieve the photos. The higher years used PHP language that we did not learn yet.  But it was okay!! :) the experience itself was already a great reward.


Here are some of the pictures during the event:(credits to Ms. Sherry Ann Marie Casal)
The pictures are in no particular order.