131 M Tech students received their degrees from Mr. NR Narayana Murthy, Chairman Infosys and Chairman of IIIT-B’s Governing Council.
Dr Madhavan Nair, Chairman ISRO was the Chief Guest; he gave a truly inspiring talk. He recounted his personal joy when ISRO vehicle could place an Indian flag on the soil of the Moon. Hearing it from the “Moon Man” was a touching experience; knowing about the mission being the lowest cost mission, yet achieving several new global milestones, makes every Indian proud.
Mr. Ashok Soota, Founder & Chairman of Mindtree was the Guest of Honor. He talked of his ten years of Mindtree (something that IIIT-B shares with Mindtree) and also some lessons to learn from successes and failures. Coming from the man who was “bitten by the entrepreneurial bug” at the age of 50 (after being Wipro President for 15 years) was so convincing.
Chairman Mr. NR Narayana Murthy in his inimitable style talked of the need for youngsters from India to dream big, take on the challenge of bringing the benefits of high quality education to the 300 million Indians who are steeped in poverty; he also asked the graduating students to “give back” to the “alma Mater.
It is an interesting coincidence that the four students (Ritesh Nayak, Ashwin, Jayant and Harsha) who won the Google Product Prodigy contest decided to give away their entire prize money of Rs 2,50,000 to their Alma Mater IIIT-B
Tags: Ashok Soota, Google Prodigy Contest, IIIT-B 9th Convocation, Infosys Chairman, ISRO Chairman, Madhavan Nair, Mindtree Chairman, NR Narayana Murthy
August 9, 2009 at 5:28 am
Sir,
I would like to talk to these students who donated their prize money to their alma mater, I am a journalist. Could you help me?
Suneetha