Student Q&A with James Gosling
James Gosling, creator of Java and Sun's VP, had a unique face-to-face session with just students to answer their burning questions about Java.
Focusing on Students
This year, Sun wanted to make sure that students learned a lot from CommunityOne and JavaOne and that they left feeling energized and excited about their future as Java developers. James Gosling, father of Java, even led 80 avid students on a guided tour of the technology pavilion. Other highlights included hands-on labs addressing cloud computing, gaming (Project Darkstar), and Zembly, plus a technical session on JavaFX.
CommunityOne was jam packed with topics geared toward students' interests, including music, robotics, open source community building, and green technologies like cloud computing. Students even had free access to the Deep Dive professional training sessions. At JavaOne, students had face-to-face sessions with Sun executives, including Dave Douglas, Sun's Senior VP of Cloud Computing, and Sun's Chief Evangelist and JavaOne conference host Chris Melissinos, free range of the vendor pavilion, and access to all technical sessions. These young attendees made good use of their networking opportunities, even at Monday's OpenSolaris/Sun Cloud party and Thursday's After Dark bash.
Students Love JavaOne
Hundreds of college and high school students from around the world and across the U.S. came to JavaOne this year, and they each took away useful new knowledge. In this series of videos, they share what they learned and give other computer science and computer engineering students tips on how to get the most out of a technical conference.
Ashwin Bhat, a campus ambassador and student from India, says that attending JavaOne was a dream come true. Find out why
Thomas Kruse, a German student, encourages students to be bold and talk to people. He learned how to send a job and get pictures from the Hubble telescope. Learn More
Trevor S. Gau, from the University of Texas, describes the amazing feeling of sharing space with thousands of people who share his passion for Java. Learn More
Luke Toop, a student from Australia, shares why his mind was blown by the range of possibilities he saw in the computer engineering field. Learn More
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Student Ambassadors at CommunityOne
Dave Douglas, Sun's Senior VP of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, kicked off CommunityOne by introducing the top Student Ambassadors from around the world.
Gathering an OSUM Community
One pod in the Java.net Community Corner was dedicated to the OSUM (pronounced "awesome," it stands for Open Source University Meetup) community, and getting a chance to gather in person was a highlight for many of JavaOne's young attendees. You can catch their enthusiasm and learn more about CommunityOne and JavaOne by joining the group, too.
Learning through Scavenging
Sun designed a scavenger hunt just for students and called it, "Dude, Where's My Treasure?" On the first three days of JavaOne, June 1 through June 3, students followed a checklist of tasks that led them through the different areas on the conference. To earn stamps on the scavenger hunt card, they had to do specific Java-related activities, and when they filled their cards with stamps, they were entered in raffles to win either an iPod Touch or a Sun SPOT developer kit. Some of the activities were installing OpenSolaris on their laptops, taking tours with executives and luminaries, sitting in on a variety of technical sessions, including those about Java SE (Standard Edition), JavaFX, JRuby on Rails, and learning how to build a Facebook application with Zembly in a hands-on lab.
JavaOne Minute with a Scavenger Hunt Winner
A JavaOne student attendee interviews another student who won an iPod Touch.
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