University of Southeastern Philippines
Bo. Obrero, Davao City

TRAVEL REPORT
January 23, 2016

Seminar Overview

In this event held at social hall on January 23, 2016 we had a minor field trip and seminar for the compliance of our subject. We had three speakers that impart their insight in line to our field of our review. The first speaker we had is Mr. Ralph Gideon who talked about the graphic tools and the fundamentals of design. The second speaker is Ms. Shannen Yu Sapar who talked about the front end web development. The last speaker is Sir Nikko Comidoy, who is an alumni from USEP he took Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. He shared his experience in his stay on the university when he is a student.

1^st Speaker: Mr. Ralph Gideon

Mr. Ralph Gideon talked about the visual plan/art. He talked about the distinction between the visual outline and visual art contrast. He looks into between an artist and an designer. I discovered that visual plan is the art and routine of arranging and anticipating thoughts and encounters with visual and literary substance while visual art are art that structures, for example, drawing, painting, mold, printmaking, plan, creates, photography, video, film making and design. Additionally I gained from what he said the contrast between a designer and the planner. Designers, outline from what they arranged. It is restricted for they will take after the structure of the plan. While artist is realizing totally new possibilities, their creative ability is wide and profound.

What I liked?

I liked the speech of Mr. Ralph Gideon because he is very lenient to his speech. I saw in him that he really knows the concept of visual plan and art. He indicated that a designer is different from an artist.

What I didn’t like?

I didn’t like that he said that an artist is greater than a designer because in every part of the work they don’t have the same objective but they have their own unique goal.

2^nd Speaker: Ms. Shannen Yu Sapar

The second speaker Ms. Shannen Yu Sapar talked about the front end web development.  She explained what front end development is and how to suit yourself into it. She discussed about the difference between a front end and back end development. Also he discussed bootstrap and other frameworks that we can use in front web development. What are the advantages and the disadvantages? She discussed also about some tools in making a website. She discussed the difference of every tool to compare and see its difference. 

What I liked?

I liked that Ms. Shannen is from USeP Tagum and she indicated that front web development is one of the trends in this modern world. She thought us on how to use bootstrap and it’s very essential in our industry. And I also liked her beauty.

What I didn’t liked?

I didn’t liked it when Ms. Shannen limits her framework to bootstrap.

3^rd Speaker: Sir Nikko Comidoy

Sir Nikko talked about what happens in the industry after you will graduate. The discovering's that you gained from the school won't be appended as you will land in a position since it is a long way from what this present reality is. Additionally Sir Nikko talked about pitching to helps us gain certainty as we will venture on the stage and face the judges or enormous individual relating into huge organizations and business. What I gained from Sir Nikko is whether you flop once, twofold your exertion since it is insufficient, twofold the hard works and hard ship. Furthermore the learning's inside the classroom is insufficient to help you at work since we can take in outside from its perception and encounters. Every one of the encounters that you gained outside from the school will help you to turn out to be more capable to confront the new section as you will graduate and have a job.

What I liked?

I liked that Sir Nikko was inspiring us on how to be a technopreneur. He was the creator of doc banana, an app that uses digital image processing that can help us people to identify bananas. He also inspired us on how to finish in our course.

What I didn’t liked?

So far I don’t have of his speech that I didn’t like because he was also a good speaker and he taught us on how to finish our course.

Afternoon Session (The Start-Up Pitching Competition and Hackathon activity)

During the second part of the program, the Hackathon and Pitching Competition starts. We formed a team and joined the Hackathon Competition. Our team was composed of me, Carry Kim Good and Murphy John Ong. At the start of the competition, I was thinking come on its GG (GG is an expression meaning Good Game) because my laptop was borrowed by my girlfriend. I kept calling her but she was not picking it up. I was saying to my teammates while we wait for the laptop maybe we should just make a code from writing it on a piece of paper. We didn’t aim for the top because we were 45 minutes far behind from other competitors. Like yeah men we can’t do anything. We just writing our codes on a paper but we can’t debug it if it is right or wrong. After 45 minutes my girlfriend gave me the laptop. After the competition we were laughing because we were too late to start but we got a 3^rd place on that hackathon. Mongz said what if we didn’t have delayed what could have happened and it boosted our morale. We received cashed price and we were happy about it.

Figure 1: Ralph Gideon talking about visual art.

Figure 2: Shannen Yu Sapar talking about front end web development.

Figure 3: Being a Technopreneur.

Figure 4: Hackathon and Pitching competition (3^rd Place)