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I am really happy for MUGH's execution of .NET Ed : An All India Students workshop on .NET.
This will get the creadentials as the first .NET workshop which was totally supported by a Microsoft User Group.

for more info : http://www.convergence2k4.info/dotnet.html

The experience : I think presenting .NET to students is always like running on knife edge. Most of the students are working on thier Java projects as per thier curriculam. So they are very much negatively interested in .NET :). But after having 2 demos of .NET experience the ball came in to the .NET court. Especially they were amazed to see Visual Studio .NET in action.

But we have explained them how Visual Studio.NET is different from actual .NET development and how VS.NET makes a developer life easier. As we prefered them to work from command line and not from VS.NET, most of our presentations are targeted towards general topic of students interest like security and web services.

There is an interesting post from my fellow MVP; Tammem on his experiences for the first day