This story originally appeared on the E2E News Blog and tells about TI Community Champion Gautam Iyer’s experience meeting the former President of India, Honorable Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest.
Recently TI Community Champion Gautam Iyer, was a judge at the final event of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest. The former President of India, Honorable Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was the Chief Guest Judge for it. We recently caught up with Gautam to see what his experience was like in both judging this final and getting to meet Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam aka the Missile Man of India. It was our honor to have Gautam (very active in the TI E2E Community Forums for C2000 32-bit Microcontrollers and Code Composer Studio) be a judge among his peers and especially alongside Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Thanks to the TI University Team in India as well as the overall team working there in helping to make this happen and for putting on an event that everyone involved in will be talking about for the rest of their lives!
What was it like getting to meet Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?
While walking down the red carpet at the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge India Design Contest towards his seat, he stopped and asked us “What should I talk about?” The picture above was captured right at that exact moment which brought the smiles you see above on all of our surprised faces (still digesting the fact that Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is already in front of us).
He has such a simplistic personality and delivered one of the best speeches that I’ve ever heard. He talked about the youth of India, the need for more entrepreneurs, Technology changes, India by 2030 and his vision. His talk was touching and moistened my eyes immediately!
I must thank the Texas Instruments India University Team for giving me this opportunity to judge the event and for being in the aura of such a great human being – Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Personally to me Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is a superhero and meeting such a star is a once in a lifetime experience.
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