Hello awesome Local Guides,
I hope you are staying safe and healthy and also doing great. In this month of celebration, I have hosted a Meet-Up called 
Let’s Celebrate Connect’s 5th Birthday. Now I’m going to share all the moments and activities of what we enjoyed and celebrated on this event. Let’s get started!
On July 09, 2021, I have successfully conducted this Meet-Up along with 35+ Local Guides from our country (Bangladesh) and India (Kolkata, West Bengal). So you can treat it as an international Meet-Up (ha ha ha). All you know that official birthday of Connect is July 15, but we did it earlier in our ways! Because we Bangladeshi Local Guides are so excited for this. This Meet-up was supported by Local Guides Bangla.
We divided our Meet-Up into these agendas:
- Get to know each other
- Discussion (what is Local Guides Connect?)
- Celebrate Connect’s 5th Birthday
Get to know each other: In this part, I have taken responsibility and requested all the attendees to introduce themselves. Local Guides also shared their name, Local Guide level, Local Guiding year & location and more.
**Discussion (what is Local Guides Connect?):**After that, our connect moderator @ShafiulB Bhai initiated this topic and shared many insights of Local Guides Connect program.
Later, @ShakilAK Bhai presented the Local Guides Connect community, and it’s all features through the screen sharing
From the West Bengal (India) Local Guides community, @PritishB Dada has shared his Local Guide journey in short. Also, he shared the story of becoming his Guiding Star.
Our another Local Guide from the West Bengal @KalyanPal Dada has shared the story of becoming an Accessibility Champion.
**Celebrate Connect’s 5th Birthday 
:**YES, this is our main agenda. In this agenda, we have discussed many topics like usually how we celebrate our and FnF’s birthdays and more. Many Local Guides also shared their individual anniversary wishes for Connect’s Birthday.
Additionally, some of our awesome Local Guides also shared Connect’s 5th Birthday wishes through their individual video. AND, here is the full Video.
Thank you so much for sending your videos. @Ariful_Hasan_SLP @ReshamDas @SaifIS @SolaimanHossain @NasimJoy @MAHBUB_HYDER
In this Meet-Up, there was a Q/A Session. Some Local Guides have asked a few questions regarding the Local Guide program and Google Maps, and answered these by expert Local Guides. Actually, we have enjoyed a lot from this Meet-Up. Though, this Meet-up was supposed to end at 9 PM, but it continued till 10 PM.
Relevant links below:
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Photo Album: Let’s Celebrate Connect’s 5th Birthday [July 09, 2021]
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Presentation: Let’s Celebrate Connect’s 5th Birthday
I would like to thank all Local Guides who joined us and made this lively Meet-Up successful.
Again,
Happy Birthday Connect!
Happy Birthday Connect!!
Happy Birthday Connect!!!
#LocalGuidesConnect
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