IEEE Student Branch Mar Athanasius College of Engineering conducted many webinars in September 2020 as a part of SPAAM (Student Professional Awareness Activities Month).
On 14 September 2020 they conducted the webinar “Freelancing: Challenges and Opportunities”. The session was handled by Ms. K Krishnendu, a famous freelance writer. She made the webinar fruitful and encouraged the audience by relating her own experiences, pointed out all the main factors related to freelancing, and highlighted topics like prospects, leads, conversions, pros, and cons, etc.
On 16 December 2020 they conducted a webinar on the topic “How IEEE Helped my Career”. The session was handled by Mr. Aravindhan Anbazhagan. He gained the respect of the audience by relating his own experiences and observations. He pointed out all the benefits he got from IEEE as a student, CS graduate, professional, educator, entrepreneur, etc. He inspired the participants by telling his own transformative story.
A final webinar on the topic “Startup Experience” was on 18 December 2020 presented by John Mathew. He started the presentation by raising a question to the audience, which made the whole session interactive. He explained various aspects of a startup like how to implement an idea, how to face challenges etc. Also, he tried to make a clear-cut idea about the startup journey by explaining his own experiences.