Kathmandu, NEPAL — July 13, 2009—Microsoft MDP Nepal announced today the selection of the Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) for the fiscal year 2010 from engineering colleges of Nepal from an overwhelming number of applications received from various engineering colleges of Nepal.
Microsoft Student Partners are a select group of students in Nepal who are passionate about technology and have a strong willingness to share their knowledge with their peers. Student Partners are the students creating and leading campus clubs or organizations and special interest groups. Always on the leading edge of technology innovation, these students are evangelists in the classic sense, looking to spread their infectious enthusiasm for software development far and wide. Student Partners are black-belt and highly experienced student developers who have demonstrated their technical and/or managerial expertise and commitment to their respective campus communities.
These students are recognized, credible, and accessible individuals with expertise on the Microsoft developer platform. They actively participate in online and offline communities to share their knowledge and expertise with other students and in some cases, with professional developers.
The Microsoft Student Partner Program is the way that Microsoft formally acknowledges the accomplishments of these individuals for their contributions to community. It is focused on allowing all students, and most especially, these select student influentials, to realize their full potential.
Overview of the MSP program
Students are awarded Microsoft Student Partner status for one fiscal year. During this time they refer to themselves as a Microsoft Student Partner and act as an official representative of Microsoft at their college/university.
Being an MSP demands dedication. Every MSP is encouraged to undertake 4 activities and numerous voluntary activities throughout the year which are designed to suit everyone's level of ability and creativity. Activities range from giving technical lectures on campus, writing articles for the student newsletter to entering the Imagine Cup or running your own computer society.
Name College
Sagar Pandey Advanced College of Engineering & Management
Shyam Mani Acharya Advanced College of Engineering & Management
Paras Sitoula Apex College
Pratima Kshetry Apex College
Ashok Neupane Amrit Science College
Deepna Devkota Amrit Science College
Indu Poudel CITE
Bikram Khatiwada Cosmos College of Management & Technology
Amrita Poddar Institute of Engineering, Pulchok
samant Manandhar Institute of Engineering, Pulchok
Sheetal Sharma Poudel Kantipur Engineering College
Tej Prasad Dhamala Kantipur Engineering College
Rahul Shakya Kathford International College
Sajana Maharjan Kathford International College
Sadiksha Dhakal Kathmandu College of Management
Pratik Om Shrestha Kathmandu College of Management
Elisha Rajbhandari Kathmandu Engineering College
Gulshan Chaurasia Kathmandu Engineering College
Sujan Shrestha Kantipur City College
Manisha Shrestha Kantipur City College
Anil Lamichhane KIST College of Management
Pramila Bastakoti KIST College of Management
Sumira Shrestha New Summit College
Shovit Sharma New Summit College
Saput Shrestha St. Xavier's College
Unisha Joshi Thapathali Campus
Amitabh Manandhar Thapathali Campus
The continuation of the program is a result of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build the country’s knowledge economy through a strong partnership that was signed between Microsoft and Nepal Government in May 2009. The MOU focused on accelerating the adoption and progress of Nepal’s ICT (Information and communication technologies) initiatives in three mutually-beneficial areas:
- Improve access to technology, ICT training and curriculum for students, teachers and the community
- Promote Nepal as a favorable destination for business investment and one which respects intellectual property rights
- Help accelerate the adoption and deployment of ICT within the Government and Education sectors as an enabler of the National ICT Policy and e-Nepal initiative.
Microsoft is committed to offer and contribute a spectrum of education resources and applications to empower all citizens including students and teachers to realize their full potential and encourage computer literacy. Specifically, Microsoft is aiming to support at least 10,000 students to gain various levels of ICT certification and training.
MSPs are also ensuring that every student in their college have access to genuine Microsoft software thru the Microsoft Development Network Academic Alliance program, (MSDN AA). This program provides access to all the latest Microsoft professional developer tools, servers, and platforms in a single, comprehensive package which simplifies licensing, deployment and staying current with software updates in a simple and inexpensive way. It helps faculties, and the network managers who support them, better prepare students for their future careers by removing obstacles to accessing the latest technology. Microsoft is offering, at no cost, a 3 years online membership to the Microsoft MSDN Academic Alliance for all the technical universities of Nepal which will be administered by the MSPs.
About Microsoft
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For more information, press only:
Ravi Chandra Koirala, Microsoft MDP Nepal, 2011302/3, ravi@unlimit.com