Scrolling The Code Lines

My First Days at SLIIT

My Self at SLIIT in 2009. Today staff canteen is situated here.
Those days there was a canteen for students here.

In 2009, SLIIT celebrated it's 10th anniversary. Commemorating that there was a big event for about week at SLIIT. There was also a software competition for school students. The name of this competition was Achievers. My school; St. Anne's College was invited to this event and 3 groups from our school including my team got selected for the final rounds. Then I was at grade 9. Those days we built little programs using Visual Basic 6.0. There were two other members; Danushka (Now studying for engineering degree at University of Peradeniya) and Kalindu (Also studying at University of Moratuwa) who were really fluent in programming.

It was 2009 August and we were there at SLIIT for few days. SLIIT was a really different place for us. On the final day of event there was a musical show. I remember Dushyanth Weeraman singing there. Musical show was also sponsored by Rollo chocolate brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited. Even today you can see in the two pillars which are infront of SLIIT's main entrance, there are some stickers on those pillars depicting Let's Do It. This was stickered for that event. Let's Do It is the marketing slogan of Rollo chocolate.

Our Team. Myself at the middle. Danushka at left.
Kalindu at Right.

In 2009, 10 years old young university SLIIT was at its golden days. I remember the place where today the engineering faculty is situated was a big mud pit and places where the CAHM and new common area and tennis courts situated all were covered with trees.

 After spending unforgettable week at SLIIT we returned. We were sad because we could not win a prize.