If you are a technical student and looking for awesome opportunities in CS or IT, here are 3 wonderful competitions for you in which you would love to participate if you are eligible - Google Summer of Code, Microsoft Imagine Cup and IBM The Great Mind Challenge.
Google Summer of Code-
Microsoft Imagine Cup-
“Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”
Imagine Cup is an annual competition, organized and sponsored by Microsoft, that encourages students like you to create software solutions to solve the 'world's toughest problems'.
Its a very popular competition in the student circle and the rewards are really big. You can know about this awesome oppourtunity here and here.
IBM The Great Mind Challenge-
IBM TGMC is almost similar to Imagine Cup, and this is all about software development using IBM tools and technologies that can solve some real-time problems and scenarios.
TGMC is organized by IBM academic initiative, and is very well-known in the IT sector. it is the best platform for you to project yourself and your skills and increase your recruitment chances.
The competition is annual, and is about an year in length. You can read about it more here.
And also have a look TGMC 2012's website here.
I hope you all must be turbocharged after reading this, and prepared to compete in one of them. BEST OF LUCK.
Google Summer of Code-
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
To know more about this competition, click here.
Microsoft Imagine Cup-
“Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”
Imagine Cup is an annual competition, organized and sponsored by Microsoft, that encourages students like you to create software solutions to solve the 'world's toughest problems'.
Its a very popular competition in the student circle and the rewards are really big. You can know about this awesome oppourtunity here and here.
IBM The Great Mind Challenge-
IBM TGMC is almost similar to Imagine Cup, and this is all about software development using IBM tools and technologies that can solve some real-time problems and scenarios.
TGMC is organized by IBM academic initiative, and is very well-known in the IT sector. it is the best platform for you to project yourself and your skills and increase your recruitment chances.
The competition is annual, and is about an year in length. You can read about it more here.
And also have a look TGMC 2012's website here.
I hope you all must be turbocharged after reading this, and prepared to compete in one of them. BEST OF LUCK.