3rd ICean Congress With Devcon (Developer’s Connect)

Last September 7, 2011, the collaboration between the class of Field Trip and Seminars, Society of Information Technology Students (SITS), and Computer Science Society (CSS) fruited as the 3^rd Icean Congress with DevCon (Developer’s Connect) was successfully held at the USeP Social Hall.

The said congress was attended by the students of Institute of Computing and from others schools like Ateneo de Davao University, MATS College of Davao, Jose Maria College, University of Mindanao, Holy Cross of Davao College, and AMA Computer College.

The program was opened with a  remarks from Engr. Val A. Quimno, Dean of the Institute of Computing, who talked about the how the event is important to the students.

An awarding of the Certificate of Recognition was also held given to all the students of the Institute of Computing who gathered an GWA of 2.0 or higher from the last semester. Afterwards, the 4^th year Computer Science and Information Technology students presented their Thesis Proposal and IT Project, respectively.

After the lunch break, the DevCon was officially started by having lightning talks with different topics. Irwin Rod Adesna, a 4^th year ICean student, talked about the “Sex of Ideas” or the collaboration between two or more persons to create a more productive and quicker solution to a problem. The other speakers talked about Open Street Map, Open Source Programming Utilities, Content Management Systems, Android Technology, and Networking.

A friendly debate between three teams, called Birds of Feather (BOF), was conducted to know which among Windows, Mac, and Linus is the best operating system.

On the announcement of winners, the team of Windows were hailed as the champions and the distribution of certificates and closing remarks finished the program successfully.