The International Squeak Live Conference was held in Nepal for the first time on February 10. Organised by the SeaGate Institute of Technology, Nepal in association with Digital Hollywood University, Japan the programme was held in Little Angels’ School premises in Kathmandu, according to a press release.

Students, teachers, parents and principals among others attended the conference. The video-conferencing on cultural exchange between Nepal and Japan was held in the presence of chief guest Saroj Devkota, who is the vice chairman of High level commission for information committee.

Madhur K Shrestha, director of SeaGate Institute of Technology, briefly described the objective of such programme and gave an introduction of Squeak.

Squeak is an open source programming language developed to enhance school students’ (from Classes II-VI) math- and science-learning capabilities. It is a combination of paintbrush and animation tool, which will help to develop new innovative ideas as well as help students learn some interesting stuff.

More than 200 students had participated in the Squeak training programme from 25 different schools of the Valley. Out of the projects made by the students, only 16 outstanding projects were selected for this event. The projects were presented by the students and judged by the Japanese evaluators via video-conferencing.

There were also some Japanese projects done by Japanese students, which were evaluated by a panel of judges present at the event. The three best projects of theirs were also chosen.

The students also performed some dances at the programme, which also supported by Toshio Miyasaka, Y Hayasaka and Kaoru Kitada, Japan, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA, Worldlink Communication, Nepal and Little Angels’ School.