Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was delivered on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. Over 450 Carnegie Mellon students, staff members, and friends of Pausch attended the lecture, leaving only standing room as this was more than the auditorium could hold. Pausch later commented about this in an interview, saying "A couple of hundred people in a room, looking and listening and laughing and applauding – hopefully at the appropriate times – that gives a lot of validation to my kids that a lot of people believe in this, and a lot of people who knew me believe that I did my best to try to live this way." The first introduction of the speech as well as the series of lectures was given by Indira Nair, the Vice Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon. Nair first explained the university's aforementioned lecture series called "Journeys", in which eight more professors from Carnegie Mellon would share their insights on their professional and personal experiences over the years.
MindSpark
MindSpark’15 was held from the 9th to 11 October, saw over 20k students from various colleges taking part in 51 exhilarating events .MindSpark’15 was themed on transforming technology in such a way so as to reach the horizons of human minds, to explore unexplored timelines. The flagship event ‘Pseudoresearch’ aspired to create a better future with the help of new path breaking technology.
The keynotes were presented by honorable Prithviraj Chavan, Dr Anil Kakodkar and Dr S K Shivakumar.
MindSpark’15 celebrated the International Day Of Girl Child on October 11 with its social initiative PAAKHI.
The first initiative was in association with Pune Learns, an NGO which aims at teaching under-privileged children basic English and Communication skills. COEP organised a drawing competition, along with other activities, for children from the local communities. 
It also organized a workshop in association with Teach For India, the Indian counterpart of Teach For All, on self-defense which was open to all. Girls and women from the villages which come under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan were given a chance to showcase their talent on the platform provided by the college .
The keynote on October 11 was a lecture conducted by Shital Mahajan (India’s first female skydiver) was also dedicated to women empowerment.
Several competitions like an online photography competition were also organized.