Who we are and what it's all about
We are a group of students of the fifth year of the university programme, informatics (generation 2000/2001), studying at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It's already a tradition that students from our faculty take the initiative to organize something educational and useful as well as interesting and fun: An educational trip to the world's cutting edge companies on the America's West Coast. We are aware of the importance of additional education in our field of work and of gaining knowledge in general. Quick development of new technologies and methodologies in the business world cannot be successful without the knowledge of successful business systems and trends at home and abroad. We were also interested in getting to know the american way of working, studying and living.

Let us introduce ourselves:

• Janez Gregor Dovžan - president
• Miha Pšenica - PR 
• Mateja Mrše
• Diana Jenul
• Matjaž Zadnik
• Blaž Zdešar
• Slavko Mervar
• Boris Laharnar
• Mitja Tizaj

Our field of expertise includes Internet, Oracle, Lotus Notes, electronics, mobile telecommunications, visual tools, Delphi, Linux, PHP, ASP, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, web design. Beside computers and informatics our other interests are EESTEC (Electrical and computer science student's european association), IAESTE (student's internships).

This trip was under the patronage of our faculty and under the guidance of our mentor assistant professor Marjan Krisper.

About the trip
Our trip last 30 days and take place from 24.03.2001 to 22.04.2001. in California, Nevada and Arizona. We flew Los Angeles (San Diego, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), spent a couple of days there, after that in San Francisco where we had the longest stay to visit some Silicon Valley’s companies (Hermes Softlab, Oracle, Intel, Silicon graphics) as well as the very well known universities of Stanford, Berkeley, University of California Santa Monica, then continue to Nevada and the most-known national parks (Yellowstone, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Lake Powell). At the end of the big curve we checked Palm Springs and America’s gambling place Las Vegas.