Success Story - 1 Month Salesforce Trailhead Journey of College Students
I was at Trailheadathon event on this Saturday, 10th Sept 2016, in Gurgaon. From a meet-up standpoint, it was good, but something else was very unique about it, i.e.
Salesforce sponsored 3 college students (Maneesha Kandala, Subhashini, & Sri Ramya Pratha) to fly for this event from Vizianagaram to Gurgaon. These students were from MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, India.
Mr.Satya Reddy, a UNIX professor from the same college, joined them as well. It's quite interesting that despite being a UNIX expert and teacher himself, he is quite excited about Salesforce, and he was one of the driving forces that helped students achieve this kind of milestone.
Naga Kiran from the Salesforce India Developer Relations team visited their college nearly a month before Trailheadathon and conducted a two-day workshop with his team of 21 guys.
After that workshop from Salesforce, it was the enthusiasm of these college students that made them work together as a team after college hours. They compromised their fun and sleep time and spent the time after studies to learn Salesforce on their own (via Trailhead).
Within a month of this workshop, these college students completed nearly 8000 badges and 8 super badges. #WOW
Maneesha Kandala, a student from the same college, completed all 4 super badges and 100 badges in a month.
This college now has a 100 Badges Club, aka Century Club, for Trailhead badges. Women power from college, i.e., Likitha, Subhashini, Ravali, and Sri Ramya, are proud members of this club.
These college students were helping Salesforce professionals and developers at Trailheadathon complete badges; I was blown away by their attitude, confidence, and dedication. I was with students from 8 AM in the morning, till 10 PM (nearly 14 hours, and they were all over the event for the whole day.)
I salute this woman's power from Vizianagaram, and I am sure this young blood/generation will keep competition and their seniors on their toes in any organization.
I was very excited by all this and couldn’t resist shooting a video interview with these bright students. I hope this video and post will motivate young developers, freshers, and students everywhere to step up their game and start learning Salesforce.
I am a developer at heart, and taking videos/interviews is not the best of my skills. The motivation was to bring and highlight this awesome success story to the world. Please excuse the video/audio issues in the above YouTube video.
My favourite moments via Twitter
“Women power who Completed 100 badges & 4 super badges in 1 month #mindblowing #wit #Trailheadathon kudos to them! pic.twitter.com/Tvm0niCSyO”
“#mvgrcea students @Manu_Maneesha @sashsubbu @sriramyapv briefing the #Trailheadathon #trailhead super badges pic.twitter.com/Uzj0JgZSOO”
“@Manu_Maneesha on stage, she started with salesforce a month ago, all 4 super badges done. #bravo #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/YwXwnKE4RC”
“Thanks @sriramyapv for guiding with super badges at #trailheadathon @newdelhisfdcdug @NagarroSFDC @Nagarro pic.twitter.com/721gZtdnrT”
“Thanks @charlieisaacs For sending video on such a short note. You made #trailheadathon more Awesome!!! #trailhead pic.twitter.com/uz8bcViWmz”
“Thanks for awesome knowledge sharing @ReginaWalton at #trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/Mal12qmdYJ”
“Sneak peak on @TheChrisDuarte shoes she will be wearing at #DF16 #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/Z6sqpD78aK”
“@SalesforceAmy sharing and Inspiring developers at #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/NrKZkWYm2e”
“At Nagarro 😀 #Trailheadathon #Nagarroevents @newdelhisfdcdug @NagarroSFDC @rajdeepdua pic.twitter.com/HpgKfrq6ka”
“Fun at #trailheadathon @Nagarro pic.twitter.com/btUPKaPV0g”
“Thank you @forceguru @gauravkheterpal for being at the first ever #Trailheadathon #Salesforce @trailhead pic.twitter.com/8jkxa59bNd”
“Thanks @jenwlee for encouraging us at #trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/8xpeFWBstI”
“@adam17amo It was nice to hear from you pic.twitter.com/21FAHnNVqC”
“Thanks @forceguru sir for guiding us at #trailheadathon its a real pleasure to have you with us pic.twitter.com/RXVrnWi9oO”
“Thanks @gauravkheterpal sir for sharing your experience and encouraging @newdelhisfdcdug at #trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/PoZRJ0fMWw”
“#Trailheadathon #Nagarroevents @newdelhisfdcdug Astro as a prize pic.twitter.com/lMIW4KHMmh”
“Rules, prizes and swag #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/i6H2FHtoC1”
“WIT leader#Amazing girl#Thanx for your time #Trailheadathon @NimishaBhatnag1 pic.twitter.com/bQCJgwI7gZ”
“Here the final score for #Trailheadathon of today. But let’s not end here, why not make a #Trailheadathon week??? 😎 pic.twitter.com/xRSE2esNxo”
“Rachit is winner, he completed 3 super badges and 52 badges in #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/TD1Zl5cLng”
“More Swag for winners #Trailheadathon pic.twitter.com/apWyiDiZlr”
“LOVED seeing all the #Trailheadathon Tweets on my feed this morning!! Now I’m LATE to my own #SalesforceSaturday 😳 pic.twitter.com/rRM1oZFbkw”
“#Trailheadathon kicked off by @atul31gupta, thanks @NagarroSFDC for logistics and space. pic.twitter.com/cAYdho6unb”
“Guys all the way from #Chandigarh Developer Group came to attend #Trailheadathon
Thank you guys 🙂 pic.twitter.com/JyM1KsA5dx”
“Awesome @SFDC_UG_Noida At #trailheadathon thanks guys pic.twitter.com/cIaZIDG4Rx”
“Winners of #trailheadathon trivia awesome!!! pic.twitter.com/QHUwUrhLQR”
“#trailheadathon went awesome. @newdelhisfdcdug made history this time pic.twitter.com/IB90sRxkXk”
Sincere Thanks
Atul Gupta for organizing this event; he is very regular in making sure we have good meet-ups in Gurgaon.
Nagarro: For sharing the office space and other logistics. Thanks to Mr. Viyom and his team for all the support.
Durgesh Dhoot: For providing this leaderboard platform powered by Heroku + Force.com. Also, a big thanks for your patience while we shot the above video; you’re awesome.
Last but not least, the Salesforce Developer Relations team, especially Rajdeep Dua, and Naga Kiran from India, their support was the backbone of success for an event of this scale. I am sure it was a long day for Naga Kiran to fly over to Gurgaon and stay with us in full enthusiasm for a full 14+ hours.
