Tech Ed’s annual Student Day event will be held on Tuesday the 2nd of September at the Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. Two half-day sessions have been specifically designed for High School students in the morning (9:30-1pm) and University students in the afternoon (1-5pm). Student Day will offer the next generation of technologists the opportunity to be a part of Australia’s premier IT education event. The best thing about Student Day is that its FREE for all students.
University Students are invited to attend the afternoon session where industry and Microsoft experts present on a range of interesting and relevant topics including, Robotics, XNA game studio, Expression and Visual studio, Imagine Cup, Career development and more, check out the agenda for further details.
Student Day will also see the official launch of Dreamspark in Australia. Dreamspark offers all University students access to Microsoft’s developer, designer and platform tools including, Visual Studio, Expression Studio, Windows server, SQL server, 12 month Trial subscription to XNA creators club and more. All tertiary students who register for student day and attend the event will receive a complimentary copy of Dreamspark on two DVD discs, saving you the hassle of downloading all the software!
High School students will witness presentations on some of the latest & coolest trends taking place in ICT including, XBOX and Windows games development, "How an Olympian stays connected" using various online collaborative tools, an engaging panel discussion on ‘where can a career in ICT take you" and more.
For more info on Student Day, please check out the Student Day Website, High Schools interested in registering for Student Day, please contact stu08@microsoft.com
Source- MSDN Blog
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We’re happy to present three new Community Spotlights - in-depth interviews of people and teams in the XNA Creators Club community!
In this edition:
An interview with Torpex Games, creators of Schizoid, a brand-new Xbox LIVE Arcade game, and the first game on Xbox LIVE Arcade to be made using XNA Game Studio. Learn about their team, their game, and tips and tricks for getting the most out of XNA Game Studio.
A question-and-answer with Albert Ho, Group Program Manager on the XNA Community team. He talks about the new Xbox LIVE Community Games offering and answers questions about price points, regions, and the next Community Games Beta.
A profile of Mother Gaia Studio from Brazil, winners of the 2008 Imagine Cup Game Development competition. This team of four discusses coding their eco-puzzle game, City Rain, from scratch, and the challenges they faced that took them from a university in Brazil, all the way to Paris and the Imagine Cup finals.
Source- MSDN Blog
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2008 at the Musée du Louvre, after a week of intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions. Celebrating first place, Australia’s Team SOAK won the worldwide Software Design invitational, Singapore’s Team Trail Blazers won the Embedded Development invitational, and Brazil’s Mother Gaia Studio won the Game Development challenge. Imagine Cup, the world’s premier competition for technology students, gives students the chance to unlock their creative genius and build solutions that tackle real-world issues facing society today.
Imagine Cup 2009 will be held in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. The theme will be “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.” Students will be asked to create software solutions that are aligned to one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The eight MDGs range from halving extreme poverty and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to providing universal primary education. More information about the MDGs can be found at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
Registrations for Imagine Cup 2009 open today, July 8, 2008. More information about Imagine Cup can be found at http://www.imaginecup.com.
Check the winners list here
The official Imagine Cup 2008 blog has been launched.Just take a look at the blog here
Competition begins today for 370 students from 61 countries and regions competing for $240,000 in prize money at the Imagine Cup 2008, an annual competition that gives students around the world the chance to unlock their creative genius and create technology solutions that can help address some of the world’s toughest social challenges.
The focus for Imagine Cup 2008 is on building technology solutions that help address challenging environmental sustainability issues. From a pool of over 200,000 participants, 124 teams have been selected to represent their countries in Paris for a week of competition around their innovative technology solutions. These student-developed solutions range from improving access to clean water, reducing pollution and carbon emissions to achieving sustainable cities and reducing demand on energy.
“Imagine Cup inspires these students to address the world’s challenges in new ways and deliver innovative technology solutions that can truly change the world for the better,” said Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International. “We hope that some of these students will become the entrepreneurs of the future, innovating and creating jobs like some of the previous winners. We wish all the finalists the best of luck in what will be an intense week of competition.”
Students and teams compete in the worldwide Imagine Cup finals across nine categories: Software Design, Embedded Development, Game Development, “Project Hoshimi” (Programming Battle), IT Challenge, Algorithm, Photography, Short Film and Interface Design. Individual students and teams are in the final stages of a yearlong competition and will undertake a series of onsite challenges relating to technology and digital media depending on the category. The winners will be announced on Tuesday, July 8, as part of the Imagine Cup World Festival closing ceremonies.
Source- Microsoft Press Release
When Jeff Bigham started developing a Web-based screen reader for people who are blind, he had no idea his work would bring him international recognition as one of the brightest young stars of computer science and accessible technology. He was just trying to help people.
Bigham, 27, and a Ph.D candidate in computer science at the University of Washington, won the first-ever Accessible Technology Award for Interface Design in the 2008 Imagine Cup technology competition sponsored by Microsoft. The award includes US$8,000 in prize money and a trip to the Imagine Cup world finals in Paris, July 3-8, where Bigham will demonstrate WebAnywhere, the winning technology solution he designed, and have the opportunity to share information with other outstanding Imagine Cup competitors.
“WebAnywhere, and the other excellent entries for the Accessible Technology Award, show that students around the world can be inspired to design innovative, accessible technology,” says Annuska Perkins, senior accessibility strategist at Microsoft and captain for the Accessible Technology Award.
Source- Microsoft Press Release
Ankur Mittal | August 4, 2008
