Summer Internship with SARL Ikalogic, France – Deepak Solanki from Lovely Professional University
Daily Winner for: – 18th August, 2011
Name of the intern: – Deepak Solanki
Institute: – Lovely Professional University
Organization interned with: – SARL Ikalogic
Getting an internship for a small grade college student who does not have contacts in the companies or with the professors is very difficult. The same happened with me. I applied to all the IITs for Summer Research Intern but was rejected everywhere even though I have done work in my field (Robotics) before. I was quite disappointed because nobody was evaluating my knowledge and what I had done. Just because of the college name and with no recommendations I was not able to get any internship. Then once I thought why only IITs or big brand companies? The soul purpose of the internship is to learn and I should go to the place where I can learn more. The best way I found is to go to the start up companies there you can get the proper guidance as well as the work. So I started looking at the start up companies which is working in Robotics.
I was following a forum and there I came to know about a person Ibrahim Kamal who was the winner of International Robotics Competition RoboCon 2007. He started a small company in France. I thought of doing internship under his guidance. I just sent an email to him explaining what I have done and my wish of doing internship. After few days, I got the positive reply from his side. He took an interview and I was selected. That was one of the happiest ever moments for me.
It was very exciting for me as I was going to a foreign country for first time in my life. Finally I reached there and had a great welcome by my boss :) I experienced a different culture, different food style (I am a vegetarian but didn’t find veg food there), bad weather (temperature goes below – 20 degree in the night), and language problem (people in France didn’t know English and I didn’t know French ) but I managed and enjoyed it.
I spent 5 months there and learned a lot of things technical as well as cultural. I completed the project before time and then traveled to many places as I love traveling and exploring different places. Traveling in TGV (One of the fastest train in the world) was awesome and going to country side and exploring the nature was amazing. This was one of the best experience that I had at the end of my teenage. :)
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hey, can u plz tell me about the stipend!!
bcz in a foreign country it is not possible to afford..
Hi Akhil,
You are right, without stipend it is very difficult to afford in foreign country. My stipend was 420 euros/month and I was able to manage in it.
wow ! really inspiring Deepak Sir. Every student should have high aspirations like you and try to follow what ever you said..
@abhik….thanks…:)
that is really nice…….
Well Thatz quite an achievement for LPU student…I mean I know how big is this as I am also from LIT but never thought anyone from Lovely can do something like this…Very gud….Keep it up…:)
@Vishal Sharma
thanks Vishal…:)
Deepak sir, you are the best… and nice story… all the best for future.. :))
Ya correct…I also tried in the same way for 2 months internship bt not able to get from any companies because of college name..
cngrts buddy n proud of u bwoy…:):):
Hey Deepak , Can u also plz tell me more about international internships. actually i want to go in telecom field so i m looking to find my intern in dis field, if u can give any idea about it..plz do!! and i m very much interested in international intern dis tym.. i m also from a small name college Gyan Vihar Univ. Jaipur (if u hav heard)..this is my mail id= ihhhakhil@gmail.com
u r indeed one of the three in the world to have completed dat project..we r sooo proud of u solanki…:)…
Takes quite a lot to keep that hope alive against all odds considering you were in a private university.
Going through the same phase.
Cheers !
@Deepak..
Great work. Can you provide me the email id for Mr Ibrahim Kamal or any such influential person? I am also extremely interested in the field of robotics and would like to do an internship.
Hi Soumyadip,
Please try finding Deepak on fabcebook and message him your query as he may not not be following this post.
Many thanks
Sarvesh
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