Ola Amigo!
Yes.. thats the progress.. It means “Hello Friends!” in Portuguese.
“Connect the Dots” is finally in its initial stage. July, 11, Friday, we had our first meeting with the CEO of Y-center, Dhairya Pujara, the host of this whole show. The meeting started with an excitement seeing our project name on the whiteboard of the conference room. Thank you so much Dhairya for a warm welcome to the first official meeting of this project. We discussed about different parts of the projects that we are going to work on and do more research on, and what kind of challenges we might have to face during the implementation of the project. While discussing the logistics of the project, we realized the difference between winning the competition and actually succeeding by accomplishing the goal of this project. Until now, these words sounded same to us... you won the competition...you succeeded.. But now we know the difference...
It’s the other way... If we succeed in implementing this project in the real field, then we will be the winner. At this point, we just won the Impactathon (a hackathon styled event organized by Y-center) but the real work starts now, in the real field with real logistics and challenges.
Starting with language barrier.. Portuguese.. It’s not that hard if you know Spanish.. wait what if we have no clue about Spanish either.. But the challenge won’t finish until we start, so we went ahead and got our first short Portuguese lesson by Dhairya Pujara, CEO and Founder of Y-center who learned this language when he went to Africa for the first time.
We discussed about the components of our project, made a list of main components which are necessary for the implementation of this project in Mozambique, Africa. So... Mozambique..from this I remember that using Google earth, we also saw the amazing glimpse of the location where we are going to stay during our project. Imagine 5 - 8 minutes walk to Indian Ocean anytime. We cannot wait to be there. Natural beauty.. Milky way.. Who want to see it? .. We do.
It was a great starting of the project.. bit of excitement.. bit of nervousness thinking about the challenges we have to face and definitely to solve them is the encouragement.
We know we will make this happen.. . We have faith in our team.
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