My Expectations for Y4IT 2014

Attending seminars is a good learning experience. When we attend this kind of activity, we are able to learn new ideas and techniques or even share our learning to other people. Seminars are usually interactive sessions where the participants engage in discussions about the delineated topic. A seminar may have several purposes or just one purpose. For instance, a seminar may be for the purpose of education, such as a lecture, where the participants engage in the discussion of an academic subject for the aim of gaining a better insight into the subject. Other forms of educational seminars might be held to impart some skills or knowledge to the participants. Examples of such seminars include personal finance, web marketing, real estate, investing or other types of seminars where the participants gain knowledge or tips about the topic of discussion. I have been in a lot of seminars and most of it is seminars on how to protect and preserve our environment. We have been conducting seminars before too because it is one of our duties as an SK official. Students like me need seminars so that we could empower our knowledge on our field and explore on what things that we are missing today. As an Information Technology student, we have to cope up and be updated on what is ne win our field so that we will not be outdated and go with the fast pace development of modern technology.

            The seminar that I am looking forward to is the Y4IT or Philippine Youth Congress on Information Technology. We will be attending it during our Field Trip and Seminars in Manila. According to what I have read on the internet, it is the biggest event for the people in the field of Information Technology and Computer Science as well. There are many information technology students here in the Philippines but not all are able to join this activity so it is an opportunity that I am able to attend this seminar.

            What I am expecting on the Y4IT seminar is there will be a lot of people from the field of information technology and computer science are coming. College students from different universities all over the Philippines, professors, technology experts and even technopreneurs are what I am imagining to see on the upcoming event. I am also sure that there will be foreign visitors from the countries that have advanced technology such as Singapore and Japan. It will be also great if those foreign technology experts will share the latest technology in their country that is still not available here in the Philippines. Another thing that I am going to expect there will be a lot of useful things that I will learn on the said event. The speakers will surely share their experiences on how they reached what they have now. Their experiences will inspire us students especially those who have no clear vision on what they will do in the future like me. To be honest, as I go on to this course I can see that the bright future will be hard to achieve for me. I am not a good programmer and my knowledge about the computer is only above average. I can’t see what my special skills in terms of information technology are and until now I am still searching for the answer. As of now I hoping that I will excel in graphic designing. It is my only option for now. I know I am not the only one who is experiencing this but also the other students of information technology and computer science. We need inspiration from successful people that is why we need them to listen and learn from them. We do not know if they were once like me and just also inspired by the other people so they are what they are now. . This seminar has a dual purpose, first is the students like me will learn from the professionals and second, the professionals are free to share their experiences and to influence the future generation of information technology professionals. I wish that someday I will attend that seminar again few years later but not as an attendee but I will be the one of the speakers. But duh, I am too lazy to for that. It requires hard work, patience and also skills to attain that level. But who knows? Maybe those speakers have the same way of thinking like me and they did not also expected that they will be like what they are now. 

            Since this is a national event, there will be a lot of participants from other schools and I think there will be thousands of them. I am excited about meeting other people and making friends with them. I am sure that there would be a question and answer portion every time a speaker finishes talking so I think it would be fun listening on the questions that the attendees that will ask. My friends who were able to attend the Y4IT 2013 also shared their experiences to us and it made me more excited. They said that there are games like telling you ideas on stage. I was interested on it because I am not only going to express my ideas but also I will be given a prize. I hope that it is cash or an external drive or any thing that is useful for an information technology student like me.

            Lastly, my favorite part of the seminar is the announcing of winners for the student paper competition. I joined the competition because I was so interested in it and it is funny that I joined without my facilitators consent. I hope that I will win the contest so that my facilitator will forgive me on what I have done hehe.    

            I can’t wait to join this seminar and I hope that my expectations on this event will happen. I also hope that the program will be smooth and no problems will be encountered during the event.