Reflecting on the whole college admission process has left me with more questions. Colleges seem to want leaders.
Who is a leader? If all are leaders, who are the followers?
An excellent clip of a dancing guy summarizes a “Leadership lesson”.
(More ...)I was at the famed Lawrence Berkeley National Lab yesterday to drive my son Rahul and some of his teammates from Lynbrook High School for the Regional Science Bowl tournament. The event was hosted by the Center for Science and Engineering Education.
The Regional Science Bowl competition test students’ knowledge of astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, earth, computer, and general science. There are are couple of Science Bowl tournaments in the Silicon Valley Bay Area, one at Stanford, Berkeley and another at Lawrence Livermore. This is not a surprise given the concentration of high tech in this area. At this …
(More ...)I was in Stanford to attend Wonderfest 2009 & and to watch the finals of the Bechtel WonderCup Challenge 2009, in which my son Rahul was participating.
Bechtel WonderCup is the Bay Area high school science quiz & innovation competition. The Klein bottle trophy, the WonderCup, goes to the Bay Area’s best science challenge team. A Klein bottle is a closed 2-dimensional surface with no distinct inside or outside — a WonderCup indeed!
The Silicon Valley has a very strong science and technology culture, which permeates into the schools around this area. It is not a surprise that a large number of …
(More ...)The Festival of Lights, Diwali, will be celebrated on Saturday 17th Oct 2009. The Indian holiday of Diwali celebrates light over darkness, good over bad and has numerous stories associated with it. For me it is about meeting friends & family and enjoying good food!
It is indeed a welcome change to see the inclusive nature of this President, Barack Obama. I was surprised to read this morning that Diwali is being celebrated in the White House. It is nice to have a President respect different people, religions and traditions.
I look forward to lighting my home with “diyas” and eating “mithai”! …
(More ...)I was invited by Mala Devlin to participate in a panel discussion titled “Software Soul: Maximizing profitability by unleashing the spirit of software teams”. This topic sounded very interesting to me since I have managed projects and global teams for several years at my jobs in the US and in multinational companies in India.
Mala and I met for tea for the first time in July and discussed the topic and more. I was impressed that Mala had recently published a book called The Software Soul. The book is an easy read and had several anecdotes that are very easy to …
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