Microsoft Academic Day “MAD” is an event arranged by .NET Clubs Champs around the country, and sponsored by Microsoft itself. The idea of such event appeared last year, when .NET Clubs champs of Jordanian universities wanted to show up their knowledge and their ability to manage events.
This year, Jordanian MAD is going to be on April 15th, in PSUT (Princess Sumaya University for Technology). It’s going to be a full day (9 am - 7 pm) and the agenda will look like:
09:00 to 09:30 Microsoft keynote / .NET Clubs and theSpoke.net community
09:30 to 10:30 Developing websites using the FREE Visual Studio & SQL Express
10:30 to 11:30 Managing look, feel and layout with Visual Studio 2005 and ASRNET
11:30 to 13:00 Lunch & coffee break
13:00 to 14:00 Vista demo / Videos
14:00 to 15:00 Creating Personalizable websites using Web Parts with Visual Studio 2005
and ASRNET 2.0
15:00 to 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 to 16:15 DirectX 9.0 — Game development!
16:15 to 17:15 ATLAS
17:15 to 18:00 Refreshments: Meet the partners / submit your resume and feedback
Draw (Give away some exam vouchers and NFR copies of VS & SQL 2005)
I and Bander Al-Shrafi are going to present the (16:15 to 17:15) session; talking about ATLAS framework for building ASP.NET 2 AJAX based applications. Hope to see you there guys.
Thanks,
A.