Part-1: Details of the Venue - Bill Gates Speaks at IIT Delhi - November 5th 2008

We arrived at IIT and entered the hall around 1:45 pm on Wednesday 5th Nov, 2008. After several minutes of waiting and watching a movie about dreams (since the event was called DreamSparks)-.

The stage was taken first by Mrs. Daggubati Purandeswari (hon. Minister of State for Higher Education) who gave a long-ish talk about the details of Microsoft’s plans and contributions.

A portal called Sakshat and a program called ICT Champs to create : 100,000 IT literate teachers was mentioned.

The goal to reach 35 million students in 11 countries with Microsoft’s professional level design and development tools was also mentioned.

After that, a professor from IIT Delhi, gave a friendly introduction to Mr.Gates. He quoted a Harvard Professor about one of Mr.Gates’ student-day escapades. After being introduced to a previously unsolved problem in a introductory maths class by his Harvard professor, Mr.Gates along with another of his Harvard professors solved the problem- and published the results in a mathematical journal.