TGL stands for The Great Lab.
1. Why did you decide to join TGL Summer Workshop?
To see if I can get more friends, associates & learn something new. And to see if I can get opportunity to visit any industry in Penang (and yes, I got it).
2. What's your opinion of the company visits? Where did you go and what did you do?
I go to ViTrox for company visit. I'm grateful that I visit ViTrox. Now I know about machine vision and how vital is its role in IT industry.
3. What's your opinion of the technical workshop? Did you enjoyed it, and why?
The technical workshop, the arduino is very interesting. It managed to seduce me to learn more about it.
The CATiA session has so much awesomeness. It helps develop the betterment of community, a lot. Using CATiA to simulate behaviour of real objects surely has made life of engineers easier.
4.What's your opinion of the talk session? Which of the talk that you like and why?
The talk sessions are, awesome. I got knowledge about what is CREST, UST Global, etc which indeed, opened my mind about industry related stuffs.
I didn't know about CREST before. But now, yeah, CREST does a lot of interesting stuffs.
The talk about agile & scrum, that's cool. When doing sprint myself, I and my team often have problem with one of the scrum key, transparency. The speaker told us some tricks to overcome this problem, as what his team did in Intel.
5. What have you gained from this experience?
I gained a lot, social & technical wise.
The diverse participants attract me to challenge my communication skill, while the technical workshops keep me updated with current industry situation.
The participants came from various cool universities around Malaysia. And The technical workshops delivered by top-notch engineers in their respective company.
Nothing better than getting updated and having more friends at the same time.
6. Do you like Penang and why do you like it?
This is my first time visiting Penang, and by far, I like Penang in a way that it has so many industry. For students like me, with the help of CREST, it can be the center of self-development process and a must-visit place.
If someone asked me whether he should visit Penang or not, moreover to attend CREST events, I would undoubtedly said, "Yes, indeed!".