ISS FUN DAY: WELCOME TO UNIVERSITY LIFE

Since its existence in 2005, ISS has been organizing activities for students to enjoy campus life. Keeping this objective in mind, ISS brings you “ISS Fun Day”. This event will be held on the campus itself on the 24^th August 2007. This event is being brought about mainly to welcome new comers to the University of Mauritius.

 

Fun-filled activities such as Tug of War, Egg race, Eating competition, latest LAN games, Dart competition and much much more will be held on that day. Winners of those competitions will be getting fabulous prizes from CompuSpeed Ltd and Kaira Pvt Ltd. Furthermore, every new comer will receive a FREE starter pack from Cellplus upon the presentation of receipts, which were given on payment of fees. This will be considered as a proof of being a first year student at the university.

 

ISS has once again proved its willingness to bring some fun in students’ lives on the campus. Apart from academic and career oriented service, here is briefly what ISS can also bring you: some moments of fun and pleasure.

Infotech 2007

 

“INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR AN EMERGING AFRICA”, such was the theme for the great trade show that was organised by the national computer board. Like every time, this event welcomed a wonderful amount of visitors this year as well.

This IT forum, featuring industry displays and demonstrations of emerging information technologies exceeded 100 booths, among which was the stand of UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS which was represented by the executive members of ISS.

While other stands such as harel mallac, UTM and others were promoting their institutions, the executives of ISS did not lack behind in doing so. They enhanced the atmosphere of the UoM stand by welcoming loads of visitors.

The aim of the stand of University of Mauritius was especially to exhibit its IT department and courses.

The whole ISS team was there along with a staff member to talk and advice about the courses. The executives showered the warmest welcome to all the visitors and briefed them properly to widen their knowledge about the world class quality education of university.

One of the promoting vectors of our stand was the CCNA course.

This network-oriented course is now open for enrolment to the full time students of UoM and also to the public. This particular course attracted a fabulous number of people of different age groups.

To promote this course on this trade show, a presentation was showed on the 3 LCDs which were arranged in a very sophisticated manner in a pyramid-like mounted structure. And as always the ISS executives tried their best to attract visitors and invited them to watch the presentations, among which were the displays of the IT department, the CITS, and of course that of the ISS.

The most striking point of the Stand was the ESSAY COMPETITION that was launched by ISS. Linked with the theme of infotech, the title was “The transformation of Mauritian people into an ICT intelligent population”. Due to this initiative of the ISS, the interest of many students and young people, aroused. ISS executives gathered the contact details of the interested participants so that a database can used afterwards to keep track of them.

Also the ISS will be organizing a job fair on the first week of September at the auditorium.

As the MBC stand was there, we didn’t lose the opportunity to approach the Radio department. There, we came into contact with the animator, Vikas Gaur, with whom we shared some talks live about the Job fair, on radio.

Another animator, Mr Maistry, the animator of business watch, approached us to video shoot our stand and especially the creative poster of the ISS.

In addition to that, the director of the mbc, Mr Bijaye Madhou, promised us full sponsoring of the job fair. Also the photographer didn’t miss to take the pictures of the ISS executives along the outstanding stand of UoM.

In other words, the ISS has been instrumental in helping to create the world class “Hub” of high performance computing.

 

 

Launching of “La Fronde” newsletter for the Orientation Day

The first weeks of August brings to us one of the most awaiting event for new students, the orientation day. As each year new batch of students taking different courses join the University of Mauritius. The orientation day is whereby the new students get an initiation of what their life as university students would be and how to deal with it. This year the Information Systems Society (ISS) together with the student union’s members guided them to build their awareness of what the life at UOM will be.

Seizing this opportunity ISS launched its first FREE newsletter “LA FRONDE”- sponsored by Cellplus, Compuspeed Ltd, Harel Mallac bureautique and Colour Plus -that was distributed to all the fresheners. (The newsletter can be downloaded from the “Download box ” found on the right side )Through this newsletter the students got the overview of ISS, when it was established and about the dynamic team who is always working in co-operation to bring to the students academic and non- academic activities. Moreover, through the newsletter the students got to read articles written by the executive members of ISS and La Fronde about the life of a student on the campus, different achievements of ISS such as site visit at the cyber tower… and the forthcoming activities.

The student union’s members and the president of ISS talked to the students about what’s awaiting them when their courses will begin, as well as making them aware of their student’s rights and on the various academic and non- academic events on the campus.

The dynamic team of ISS took the initiative to guide the students through the campus, the premises of the university and the lecturers. There were many questions and answers, but gradually the anxiousness of the students about venturing in the unknown were gone and replaced by the excitement of the adventure and discovering new things.

By the end many new friends were made, old memories of our own first orientation day came afresh and even after a long and tiring day everyone had a fun and exiting time. For some it had been a day of new discoveries and for others a day of passing by their knowledge and sharing of experiences. Overall it was a great day!!

ISS – Essay Writing Competition

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Theme “The transformation of Mauritian people into an ICT intelligent population”

Description: With the increasing importance of ICT and the realising rise in its applications in different sectors during the years, our fellow Mauritian are bound to know its diverse aspects. You are therefore required to write an essay on the above theme for not only students and young people but the population at large.

Prizes: Interesting prizes will be offered to the lucky winners by CELLPLUS during the Job Fair 2007 at the University of Mauritius.

 

ENTERING THE COMPETITION

Via Email

Make sure you email the entry form together with your essay. You will not be able to submit any entry without the entry form. E-mail your entries to is.society@yahoo.com

By Post

Please complete your entry form in block capitals and attach it to the front of your essay. You will not be able to submit any entry without this information. Send entries to:

The President

Information Systems Society

Students` Union Office,

University of Mauritius,

Reduit

RULES

1. Priority will be offered to the following group of participants
   1. Secondary Students
   2. Tertiary Level Students & Public ( not exceeding 25 yrs )
2. The Competition is open to students of all colleges, other educational institutions and universities and public in general who are below 26 years.
3. Those who are below 18 years old must submit their essay through a school, college or youth organisation which has been certified by a member of staff of the school, college or organisation submitting the essay.
4. All essays must be accompanied by the entry form.
5. All essays must be written in English.
6. All entries must be submitted in the author or authors’ own name(s).
7. Submissions on behalf of an institution or firm are not permitted.

ENTRY FORM

Please download a copy of our entry form which can be found in the DOWNLOADS BOX on the right hand side.

Please note we will not be able to submit your entry without the entry form.

DEADLINE OF APPLICATION

24 August 2007

NUMBER OF WORDS

Unlimited