Dataprint Academy 2009

On the 5th of July I was lucky enough to attend Malam penobatan DataPrint Academy 2009, a week long learning camp for high school students to promote their communities. In order to be these community engines they were fed with workshops to flourish their entrepreneurship skills, creativity, leadership, information technology knowledge, digital graphic, photography and journalism. For more info click here.

On the last night of the 6 days workshop, the 30 students who were involved in the gave a performance to the DataPrint Board of Directors and managements executive and other sponsors of the event. These kids not only are very active (you should see the list of awards they've won) but talented and creative. They gave a spectacular performance only in a few days preparation. At the end of the night 3 of them was awarded money prize for their participation. Overall they really enjoyed the workshops, the experience and the making friends.

I'm glad companies like DataPrint are creating this kind of events to give back to the community. I kind of gave the suggestion that it should be narrow and focus on promoting the community using blogs (inspired by the theme of 2008 Pesta Blogger). I wish Urbanesia someday will be at a place to do something like this.

Here's the youtube link if you want to watch the summary of the event on a TV show broadcasted by TVone:
DataPrint Academy Part 1
DataPrint Academy Part 2
DataPrint Academy Part 3
DataPrint Academy Part 4