Hello, I am a sophomore student of Asian College of Higher Studies pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology (B. Sc. CSIT). I am also a founder of Hackfiber (IT Community), which works on to set up the skills needed among all the students taking any IT courses. Also, there are my other mates who are assisting to make this community bigger, better and stronger.
Its been more than a month that we are staying at home due to the lockdown and could not join our college which is actually a distressing thing. Not only our country, whole world is being conscious and taking the precaution measures regarding this issue of Corona virus. At first, I was super excited when I heard about the lockdown. All I was thinking was, I could stay home and can spend my week with my family. But when the lockdown extended, I was all getting bored staying home inside a single room. This could be the reason that I couldn’t withstand with the lockdown. I was busy in doing all my college work and hustle and bustle nature of the big city of Kathmandu prior to the lockdown. The only best solution during this time in self-isolation is that we should appreciate the government’s decision and take it seriously.
I know many students in any field are having the same problem as mine. In spite of talking on the issue that corona has made us to think about, let’s talk about my daily activity that I am doing during this hard time of COVID-19. Hope, this might help you get out of your stressful time, and make you think that we can actually utilize this time in the best way possible. I have started to work out to get physically fit, read novels, learn new programming languages and meditation. These are some activities that I have been doing to utilize my time. Also, me and my team are working to facilitate other students who are locked down at their homes with some IT related virtual workshops.
We do these events through Hackfiber,an IT community formed by students of ACHS (founders of Hackfiber: Mohan Rawat, Shree Krishna Lamichhane, Ravi Lamichhane and Ujjwal Shrestha).Previously, we had organized several IT related events on Arduino, R, Python, Git and GitHub Workshops. After the lockdown, as all the colleges were shut off and we were thinking of postponing our event and get it done after the lockdown is over. But the lockdown went on increasing, it made us think on, “How can we actually connect among all the students?”. The only the solution we found was Virtually. So, we started delivering the workshops virtually in G-meet and Zoom app and we found it very useful and got good feedbacks as well. We did the first workshop of complete HTML and CSS to the intermediate level students, which lasted about 3 hours long and was a fruitful one.
After a week ahead, we planned on giving the Python workshop on Friday, April 24, 2020 in the collaboration with ACHS IT CLUB and Mr. Mahesh Acharya (an AI expert) as the facilitator who facilitated throughout the session, which lasted about 2 hours. The session was delivered to near about 35 participant who were from different cities of Nepal, which is actually a great success.
In the first hour we learnt all about the basics of Python viz, variable, operators, functions, OOP concept, and many more. After the basics were completed, we started doing the project that everyone could understand. Then, in the end we had a Q/A session where everyone cleared their doubts. Our mentor also shared his journey to his way of AI and Machine Learning and even shared the resources that would be helpful for those who wanted to build their career in AI and Machine Learning. Overall, the session was great and successfully ended.
Mohan Rawat, CSIT 2018 Batch, ACHS College
Founder, Hackfiber
