The Great Mind Challenge 2006
IBM's National level programming contest
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The Great Mind Challenge 2006 held a memorable felicitation ceremony on March 27th, at The Park, Chennai.
Students and faculties from across the country were invited to attend the prize distribution ceremony. The top twenty winning teams were brought down from different locations. Twenty teams and thirty colleges spread across 18 states were acknowledged for their participation and contribution. Attended by 66 students 12 faculty and 21 Heads / representatives of the various colleges. Five Newspapers, two TV Channels and eight On-line Magazines covered the TGMC 2006 felicitation. The occasion was graced by senior executives from IBM. IBM Academic Initiative Director Kevin Faughnan, Head AP Univ Relations Margo Robertson, and Director Software Group IBM India R Dhamodaran. Trophies, wooden plaques, ipods and MP3 players with appreciation certificates were distributed to 20 winning teams as per the Prizes announced before the commencement of the contest.
Providing "in demand skills for an on demand world" is the belief behind IBM's "The Great Mind Challenge" contest. It promotes students from engineering colleges across India to develop practical solutions, in a real life scenario using IBM open source software.
The key highlights of the Great Mind Challenge have been:
- Providing students an opportunity to work in an open source environment
- Students developing 21st century skills required to be successful in the work force of day
- Having to innovate their acquired knowledge into actual projects
- Mentors from the industry addressing project development queries
- Learning content through exploring the options available
We encourage students from final year batches to visit the Student Job portal at http://www.ibm.com/in/university/ to register their resumes and get them highlighted at the right forums.
Wishing you all the very best in all your endeavors and looking forward to working with you in 2007!
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