Last year I met Jeremy Foster from Microsoft and asked him if he could come down to the Institute of Technology and do a presentation on mobile application development on the Windows mobile phone platform. We decided on a "brown bag". Brown bags are one hour presentations given during lunch for whoever is interested in sitting in.
We didn't know what to expect but it went very well. Forty five students attended, and all of them had intelligent questions and enthusiastic discussion between attendees and presenters. So much so that Jeremy and I agreed to bring him back for a longer period of hands on work with mobile development which ended up being the "Build a Mobile App in a Day" event that was attended by about 200 students and members of the community.
Now we have the third visit and this time we are covering multiple platforms for development including Azure, mobile apps, web development and more.
I just kept it to student invites with a couple special outsiders brought in, and the attendance is easily over 120 for the day. Once again, great technology discussion, development and execution being demonstrated on campus.
The presentation slides can be found at aka.ms/uwt
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