Fwd: Imagine Cup 2010 News

[SURENDRA T.S.]

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Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:50 PM
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	Be A Part of Imagine Cup 2010! It’s not too late. There are many exciting things happening in Imagine Cup 2010!  Sign-up and step up to the challenge today! Awards = More Chances to Win Cash and Prizes! You still have time to sign-up for one or more of the following award competitions: Internet Explorer 8 Award – Design software applications that create an enhanced user experience by leveraging Web Slices, Accelerators, and search providers in Internet Explorer. Sign-up by March 22, 2010. Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award – Create a new education application that uses Tablet technology while expanding the possibilities for user interaction with computers. Sign-up by March 26, 2010. Envisioning 2020 Award – Express your vision for how technology could transform people’s lives by the year 2020. Sign up by May 5, 2010. Interoperability Award – Recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blend them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. Sign-up by May 5, 2010. NEW! Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award – Create a Windows 7 Phone application (app) in either Silverlight or XNA. This app needs to be designed with the consumer in mind and should be as visually compelling as possible. Sign-up by May 24, 2010. Sell your mobile app! Microsoft is expanding its DreamSpark free software program by enabling you to sell your Windows Phone applications in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. DreamSpark waives the $99 registration fee for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile and now you have the tools, services and platforms to get a head start on your career. Who Owns Your Idea? Create your own ringtone on MyBytes and experience what it’s like to share your creative content. MyBytes is part of an education initiative aimed to ensure students have the knowledge to become influential, respectful consumers and beneficiaries of Intellectual Property and creative content. Share your thoughts on “Who Owns Your Idea” forum. Want to Work in IT? Take advantage of the Microsoft Students to Business (S2B) program to help you find your dream job at one of the company’s 395,000 partners. Follow the Career Channel to learn which positions are in demand before choosing your career path in the Student Career Portal. Let S2B help you land your dream job! Microsoft and IEEE Join Forces! Microsoft and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology, are collaborating to empower students to reach their professional aspirations. This collaboration will give aspiring student engineers around the world the tools and resources for tomorrow’s jobs. IEEE’s network will also help connect high profile judges to be a part of the Imagine Cup 2010 Worldwide Finals this July in Warsaw, Poland. Learn more about the exciting benefits for technology students based on this new exciting Microsoft and IEEE partnership. More Just for Imagine Cup Competitors! DreamSpark is simple; it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and designer tools at no charge. Take a student-priced Microsoft Certification Exam at up to a 55 percent discount. Use a Student Second Shot Voucher and receive 2 chances to pass any exam in the student series. Connect! Join the Imagine Cup 2010 Facebook community Stay informed as the competition progresses via Twitter Read up-to-date news on the Imagine Cup blog Chat with other students around the world Questions? Visit the Imagine Cup 2010 website or post your question in the forums. - The Imagine Cup 2010 Team         To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders) please add all e-mails from the imaginecup.com domain to your safe senders list. Microsoft respects your privacy. To learn more, please read our online Privacy Statement. If you would prefer to no longer receive this Imagine Cup newsletter, please reply to this message with “UNSUBSCRIBE” in the subject line. To set your contact preferences for other Microsoft communications, see the communications preferences section of the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

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From: Rux, Alan <Alan...@uml.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Subject: RE: Imagine Cup 2010 News
To: "SURENDRA T.S." <suren...@gmail.com>

 

Hello Colonel,

 

time to get out the stick and motivate the ATL batches,

this is from Microsoft's Imagine Cup web site:

 

Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award

The Touch & Tablet Accessibility Award is designed to challenge teams to create a new education application that uses touch and tablet technology while expanding the possibilities about how a user interacts with the computer. The application should implement accessible technology to empower people with disabilities, temporary difficulties, or anyone with the desire to personalize their user experience. Teams must develop a solution that effectively integrates the use of touch and tablet technology to enable students with disabilities to improve their learning results.

 

this one has our name on it. ask Pragya to demo the "handi-talk" that she has, and also dual-touch learning, not sure that she has this one.

we will need the software programming experts for this one. java or Visual basic programming will work.

 

Submit your Round 1 entry before March 26, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. GMT

 

I think we can do this. or at least scare the competition.

 

Alan