To be a CODE OLYMPICS Champ..

SAP Labs India holds thee GRAND event of the Code Olympics once every year. Inspite of the busy schedules some of us manage to coax/convince their manager to let them be a part of it. Well I wasn’t able to participate in it this year but one of the Rocking Chick was able to and also be the SARKAR of it…nono she is not alone in it…she was a part of the winning team – SAPera :o) - and made some important contributions to rise as the Winners

Before any other reporter could, I was able to get Priti, one of the Champs of the event, to spare some time to write out her experience of participating and winning the CODE OLYMPICS.

Its my honor to tell u the inside story of what it takes to be a Code Olympics CHAMP, as told by the Great Miss PRITI……Read on :o)


“I never thought my dream of shaking hands with our MDs Martin and Kniese on the stage of cafeteria in SLI campus will come true so early in my first year of SAP, YES, it came to me through Code Olympics…..The day when our team SAPera was announced as thee SARKAR of 2005 Code Olympics in SLI will never go out of my heart.

Here goes the story behind winning team SAPera:
Because of late night sittings and personal attachment with office, people often used to say to me that I should make office my home and do all the things in office including sleep. So I thought I should rather try it with one night stay for the Code Olympics :-). Jokes apart I wanted to experience a feeling of working / coding and putting brains for 24hrs non-stop and also wanted to have fun and learning's with/from all other participants. With this desire I was desperate about taking part in the Code Olympics. I contacted every single person I knew, not only in CD but other in SLI, to get myself accommodated in any team. I even wasted my 10 precious minutes to write the interesting and enthu mail to CD team-4. With no responses from any side, I came to know that Mr. Rahul Tongia is also looking for some members and unknowingly forced him to take me in his team even when he told us that he doesn’t wanted to work with non-familiar personalities but due to non-availability of his friends he had to bear with me. But somehow the team was formed and we went w/o a any preparation in Code Olympics.

We had never thought that we will win, but my personal experience with this event is incomplete without mention of our members of SAPera

Captain Rahul - Smart Guy who knows how to bring world in his hand
Atul - I have three names for him, TRUE SARKAR of our team, Bluffmaster (we learnt how to bluff with confidence from him) and founder of name SAPera (I think he is very fond of snakes)
Prashant/Parag/Mythili - Simple, Innovative, Talented respectively that matches with the values required for Code Olympics.
And Me - Well I am just perfect :o)

The team: Seated (L-R) Mythili R, Priti Mulchandani. Standing (L-R) Rahul Tongia, Prashanth Prabhu, Parag Baldha, and yours truly.

So, all in all, our team was complete to take part in the most famous event in SLI.

On the day of the Code Olympics (09/12/05) we started with the problem that was most suiting to our skills and that was Agenda Builder for tech-ed. There was very big condition that we have to do as much as possible as the problem given was very big to be completed in 24 hours including couple of hours of sleep. The night was comfortable for ABAPers as we got our systems in place and I can't forget that I also took the sleep below the table of meeting room A1R09. On the other side, bypassing all the difficulties, JAVA guys somehow managed to work on their part and by evening we were almost ready to show our solution with proper integration.
The time came when I had to work on putting one of the most important part, at the last minute, (very boring though) in our solution and that was attractive output/result data which would be the best possible agenda for a delegate of Tech-ed in front of judges. Our presentation went well. However I was little disappointed with my very less contribution this time, but finally when the results of finals were announced I was not able to stand on my feet.
Finally we made it successful application on the day of finals with excellent presentation and answers capability of our captain; this became the key to present it as best among the rest of 6 finalists. When the results were announced for 1st and 2nd runner-ups, my heart beat was twice as fast than the normal and couldn’t stop my prayers to the GOD too and to my surprise, first time ever Miss. Kavita Chawla petted on my back and told me "Don't worry girl , just Relax". And just after her words Martin announced our team name as winner of Code Olympics.

So this is how it became most exciting part of my life which I can never ever take out from my mind.

The readers are most welcome for any comments or any questions for this subject.
Thank You all for reading and spending time for my "the first" blog.
And last but not the least I Thanks Neha for nagging me all day so she could publish my experience in her blog site.”

Thanx Priti... Gud Luck with all that you get involved in and hope that you rise high in your personal and professional lives

Enjoy Maadi... !!!

P.S. - Thats not all, not only is she one of the Code Olympics Champs..She is also the winner of the 'Recognised CD Team Member' who is known for excelling in Projects she gets involved with....Hats Off to her :o)