Tag: Term 4
The Darden Challenge – what we did
by Dushyant on Dec.16, 2008, under ISB
As mentioned in my earlier post – there was a slew of competitions in term 4 and even I succumbed to participating in one. My team-members were Gaurav, Jasmine and Vikas.
The challenge this year was to generate AIDS awareness for the youth in India using the mobile telephone platform. Interesting problem – we spent a lot of time brainstorming on the idea and finally came up with “Cell Cast”. The concept aims to bring home the risks of HIV to every such person; to an extent that he/she takes the increasing threat of HIV seriously and becomes a link in the chain to spreads its awareness. The concept employs the SMS/MMS as the base technology, owing to its high use in the target segment, low costs and standardized tools. The plan was to create short, believable accounts, around various topics related to HIV which shall be transmitted in series via text messages / MMS graphics sent out at times corresponding to the story timelines. Entertaining while involving, the stories would be designed to implicitly communicate the message about HIV while making the threat real and substantive. The story would end with a quiz to drive home the message.
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ISB Term 4 – PhotoWalk
by Dushyant on Dec.12, 2008, under ISB
Term 4 was unarguably the WORST term at ISB. The subjects (barring INVA) were absolutely useless, there was no point in studying them. I don’t understand why all the useless subjects were concentrated in one term. If you have to have these subjects – at least spread them out over the rest of the terms – better still – make them electives – let the people who want them take them.
However – as usual – this blog is never about studies, it’s about the fun I had during the term. Though I must confess – the term was a major disappointment otherwise too.
Ashish’s birthday had come during the term break – and though we celebrated it in style in Dandeli, the official dunking happened once we came back. The weather was not too cold, and the entire gang was in the pool. We dunked and dunked and dunked:
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