IBM – The Great Mind Challenge 2011

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The Great Mind Challenge is a programming contest by IBM-india for those students who have Strong interest in programming and would like to join software industry in future.This can work as boon for engineering students wish to enhance their programming skills. They will get opportunity to work on real life problems with cutting edge technology being used by developers now a days.
How this can help Engineering/programming students ?
This contest is made for students interested in programming only. Biggest opportunity for final year students as they can use this for final year project and i believe this can change your future. You can grab an opportunity to work with IM (Information Management software) team of IBM.

Why should I participate in TGMC 2011?
Let me ask you a question ?
Do you want to make your skills and future ? .. YES !! Everyone wants to have that .
The current increased demand for business and technology skills will require students to develop a unique skill set never seen before. This new integrated skill set combines critical thinking, creativity, and innovation with leadership, global awareness, and technology literacy. This is why IBM began The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC), which will prepare YOU for the jobs of tomorrow.

Some specific reasons:

1. To enhance your skills and ensure that they are mapped to real-time set industry demands.
2. To interact with and learn from experienced and established experts from IBM, a global leader in technology.
3. To get easy access to free training in high-end technologies.
4. To open doors to placement opportunities according to one’s skill set.
5. To make you market-ready.

What is TGMC aka The Great Mind Challenge ?

TGMC promotes students from engineering colleges from across India in their endeavor to develop solutions for real-time problems and scenarios using IBM open source software. It is aimed to encourage students who aspire to make key contributions to develop applications on cutting-edge IBM technologies while providing them with an opportunity to improve their software-writing skills.

Prizes

Participating in TGMC gives you a chance to experience great opportunities in the field of information technology!
1. It gives you the opportunity to enhance your skills and ensure that they are mapped to real-time set industry demands.
2. Interact with and learn from experienced and established experts from IBM, a global leader in technology.
3. Get easy access to free training in high-end technologies.
4. Open doors to placement opportunities according to one’s skill set.
5. Makes you market-ready.
6. Participation certificates
and
7. Prizes ranging from laptops, netbooks, and Apple iPods to cameras.

NOT ONLY THIS, but

  • You get a chance to work with the Information Management software with full support from the IBM IM team, which is behind the scenes if you choose a project scenario tagged with Information Management.
  • Your project also becomes eligible to be evaluated by DB2 experts themselves and will be given individual mentoring.
  • The best project on DB2 will be chosen by the experts themselves, and it becomes eligible to win prizes like iPads and iPods from the Information Management team of IBM, along with TGMC prizes (if it qualifies as a project there as well).

    • And the faculty mentor stand to gain as well:

  • Special recognition is in store for colleges and individual faculty members.
  • Recognition and awards for all-female teams and top teams from all the states, as well as those that rank among the top 50 teams.

    • Apart from all of this, the top three teams will go into the TGMC Hall of Fame. Check out the Hall of Fame page to see the last year’s winners in all their glory here
    And saving the best for the end, IBM is proud to announce that it will help find a sponsor for the most feasible project from among the top 10. This actually means that the project you’ve worked on in theory might actually be chosen to be implemented.

    Important:

    All teams who submit completed projects (as per the guidelines set) will get certificate of participation.

  • While the contest and the prizes help build a healthy level of competition among your peers, the focus of TGMC is and always has been to provide a platform for your talent and ideas. So while your ambition must always drive you to win, neither winning nor losing is the end of the road. We hope you’ll remember this while working with us. All the best!

    • Disclaimer: Specific prizes for each category will be announced soon. Prizes mentioned above are subject to availability and IBM has the right to change as it deems fit.


    Some Important Dates to Remember:

  • Last Date For Registration: 31st October

    • Software Requirement Specification (SRS) Submission: 31 Dec 2010

  • Project Submission: 28 Feb 2011
  • Project Evaluation,First Round Results: 31 Mar 2011
  • Face to Face Evaluations: 20-30 Apr 2011

    • Click Here to register in TGMC

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    Source: https://www.ibm.com

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