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The students of Vanni Institute of Technology (VanniTech) successfully carried out another quarter break program, titled “Introduction to Computers”, a two weeks program, during second half of this October.

 

This time the institute was taken a big step towards bringing high tech awareness to the younger generation in backward areas of the North-East region. In order to make the technology transfer easier, the institute formed a special unit, “Tech Mobile Unit”, which includes 7-8 students of the institute, Multimedia projector and Screen, Desktop computers, Laptops, Palm PDA, Digital cameras, Car Simulator, Diesel Power Generator, Van and more. The mobile unit traveled over thousands of kilometers and faced numerous challenges such as heavy rain falls, flooded bridges, uncomfortable accommodations, check-points and elephant threats.

 

 

The program was in the form of a seminar and accompanied with MS PowerPoint slides multimedia projectors. There were demos on classical applications of computers in our day to day life. The seminars were taken place for about 120 minutes and ended with a small hands-on session to audience. On average a seminar was covered 120 students.
 
 

About 4650 students from 44 schools from all eight districts of the North-East of Sri Lanka were benefited by the program. Feedback forms convey that VanniTech students conducted the seminars in a professional way and they set a standard for IT awareness programs.

“We took a high risk of sending our valuable equipments to very remote locations”, said Shantharahavan, President of Vanni Institute of Technology. “Any failures in the fields would affect our academic operations. But it is worth of taking this risk as the audiences are very hunger to learn the technology”.

 

 

About VanniTech

VanniTech is an Advanced Technological Institute, and a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka. The objective of VanniTech is to generate high-tech employment in the war torn North-East Sri Lanka and prepare the people in the region to compete in the global market. To meet this objective, VanniTech is offering university-level courses in software development, electronics, and computer communications in English medium. VanniTech instructors include local professionals with degrees from highly reputable universities around the world and international volunteers. VanniTech is founded and funded by ITTPO. Additional information about VanniTech can be found at www.vanni.org and www.ittpo.org.

About ITTPO

ITTPO is an independent, non-profit (501 (c) (3)) organization in the USA, and an approved Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Sri Lanka. ITTPO based in the Silicon Valley region of California, was founded in September 2002 to bring the Tamil technical professionals and other volunteers around the world together and offer their technical expertise for the development of the war torn North-East Sri Lanka. ITTPO is funded by individual well-wishers and organizations around the world. Additional information about ITTPO can be found at www.ittpo.org or obtained via email to directors@ittpo.org.

 

 
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