Organizing an event is a tough job. Promotion, designing banners, getting permissions, etc.. etc.. Here, I’m sharing my experience of organizing my first ever coding contest in my college, SVIT, Vasad.
The idea of organizing such an event was inspired by a friend of mine, Pranit who recently organized MLH Build Day. I was given an opportunity to organize this event by CodingBlocks.
I saw tweet about an event called CodeSule which is a coding contest held by Codingblocks. Out of curiosity, I searched more about it and ended up finding a Campus Ambassador program by CodingBlocks. After reading more about this program, I found out that they provide a chance to organize Coding contests, Workshops, Hackathons and much more. Soon, I applied for the program and within a few days I got an interview call. After a few hours, I was informed that I had been chosen as the Campus Ambassador.
Furthermore, I started planning to organize a Coding contest. So, my mentor from CodingBlocks and my friend Arpan helped me to plan the event. All I had to do next was to take required permissions from the college authorities for the event. Next step into this journey would be to prepare enrollment forms, posters and start promotions, which was interestingly taken care of. The most challenging part for me was when an HOD asked me to present a small interactive session on “Why Competitive Coding and What are the approaches?”
It was challenging for me because I had never presented a session before in front of such a large group of people. I felt nervous at first but it turned out to be amazing as I loved the interaction with the audience. This is how I eventually started loving Public Speaking and interaction.
A day before the event I was a bit nervous because of this session I had to present. Here comes Devam(co-organizer/buddy) who helped me out with these issues.
So, now the Big Day that I have been planning for weeks. My team and I were at the venue and started setting up everything prior to the event, I was a bit nervous at first but I carried it nicely with such a nice and supporting audience. We conducted 3 contests in total:
● Maximum Tweet Contest
● Kahoot Contest
● Coding Contest
Starting off with the coding contest, We faced some technical issues but the CodingBlocks team was very helpful in tackling them. During the event, our HOD visited us and she was delighted to see everyone indulged in the event.
After the Coding and Maximum Tweet contests, we held the last contest of the day that was the Kahoot Contest. It was simple a general quiz. All the participants loved it.
Then, Devam and I declared the winners for all the three contests.
Basically, This is how I organized my very own Coding event.
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