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University Students and Researchers Enjoy JavaOne
5/14/2008
Campus Technology spoke with two students (above, left to right), Jeremy Cerise and Matt Brandt, who drove with two more students from Fort Lewis College in southwestern Colorado just to attend the event. Brandt explained, “I was talking to a group of three other students about this cool conference that I’ve always wanted to go to, but it was out of the reach of students because of the price… So we went to the Web site for JavaOne and there was a thumbnail for students that hadn’t been there before -- we found out it was free [to students]! So we drove about 17.5 hours to get here, on a very low budget, and we’re staying at a hostel. But it opened up the possibilities for us.” Cerise added, “There is so much software -- it’s really overwhelming. We will be back next year!”
[Photos by Mary Grush]
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