Imagine Cup UK launches - Students Enter Now!
Do you like technology? Want to kick start your career while at university? Fancy the opportunity to win a week in Microsoft headquarters in Seattle (Redmond) shadowing the Popfly team? Or just want to show that your university is better than its biggest competitor?
The answer is really simple - The Imagine Cup UK. It is the world's biggest technology competition for students and this year it has an even bigger remit - let's save the planet!
Where do I start?
The quiz is a fun way to see if you are up to the mark - answer some easy -ish questions on technology and then register for the Imagine Cup and/or the High Performance Computing competition (UK only initiative for science bods)
Check out the Leaderboard to see which universities are the brightest and best
Once you've registered on the competitors site it's all about picking the competitions you want and going for it on www.imaginecup.com. Keep checking back in on the UK site to hear of the latest tips and advice, as well as information on prizes and UK specific events!
Theme?
"Imagine a world where technology enables a more sustainable environment for all"
I think it will be hard to top this one in terms of students having the opportunity to positively affect their future - global warming and the many other environmental issues which affect us could be reduced or eradicated with the determination, creative thinking and technology muscle that the next generation can create.
Which competitions?
There are 9 invitationals to the Imagine Cup and the HPC competition which is a new specialised offering for scientists and engineers who have great ideas on how to build solutions on high performance computing clusters of computers (think Formula 1 fluid dynamics or genetic algorithm processing).
What do I get in return?
Apart from all the great rhetorical questions I posed at the top...
We will announce in the next week or so the FULL prize roster which for the first year in the UK will have prizes for the best UK competitors across all 9 competitions. That means if you produce an amazing Silverlight UI for the Interface Design invitational you could win a week's experience at an agency and a good bit of kit to play with as well.
More on that later, once we sign off on the legal bits!
Questions?
markjo@microsoft.com or leave a comment here and I will answer it as best I can!
Now go take the quiz and register at www.imaginecup.co.uk :-)