Just before midterm exams hit us fellow students, I compile some of on-going competitions you might be interested to join. So if you’re the type of student who wants to learn and to experience the air beyond common classroom, grab the following opportunities and you might win cash prizes and some bragging rights as one of the participants of these prestigious competitions. [And see you at the Finals! Haha!]
1. Imagine Cup
Powered by a world giant Microsoft Corp., Imagine Cup is an annual competition for young technologists world wide that aims to solve some of the world’s problems through the use of technology. More than just a programming competition, this year, Imagine Cup 2011 to be held at USA holds 5 competitions involving Software Design, Embedded Development, Game Design, Digital Media and IT Challenge.
Did you know that fellow Filipino technologists just bagged the top prize of $25,000 or about P1.1 million out of a game design idea because of the typhoon Ondoy?
Got inspired? Follow this link and register now!
2. iTaste: Take a Step Towards Excellence
iTaste is a leadership training program built by Kraft Foods Philippines to gather some of the most promising graduating students in the country in a two-day introduction to latest techniques of building the business, the Kraft Foods way.
Aside from the schemes in analyzing and solving problems related to business functions and operations, participants will have employment opportunity in Kraft Foods plus the chance to win a training at the Regional Headquarters of Kraft Foods in Singapore, as much as Php 50,000 for the team and Php 100,00 for the university.
Get to know the delicious difference from Kraft Foods here.
This interschool competition, spearheaded by Procter & Gamble, is calling all undergraduate university students from Metro Manila to share innovative ideas to transform the P&G business! Teams can be formed to compete in the following categories: Digital Marketing, Workplace Sustainability and Digital Value Chain.
Get a chance to be invited to key P&G events and win as much as Php 50,000 tax-free! Visit the official Facebook page of P&G Innovation for more details.
And for the student filmmakers who want to see your masterpiece on the bigscreen, SM Cinema is inviting you to join Bigshot! The contest is open to all student movie makers from any university or college. Movie can be a full-length or short film but not animated. And just right after the Metro Manila Film Festival, the best of the bests movie will be shown on January 2011.
You may also email cinemaevents@smsupermalls.com for inquiries or visit the official website at http://www.smcinema.com
5. Samsung Bada Developer Challenge
Samsung has recently launched their smartphone platform called Bada, a Korean word which means ocean. Samsung aims to open and extend a new smartphone market. Samsung Wave is their first-Bada powered smartphone.
And to bring a new blue ocean of mobile applications, Samsung is calling our mobile applications developers to take the their challenge! A total prize of $2,700,000 is to be given away with $300,000 as the grand prize at the Global Challenge. Philippines is also organizing its own regional challenge!
In the regional challenge, you can take home as much as P150,000 plus a revenue share in excess of 3,000 downloads of the winning entry in the Professional segment or Php 70,000 cash prize for winning entry under Amateur/Student segment.
Globe Labs, Forum Nokia and Nokia Philippines join force in launching Code Spark program that provides incentives for mobile applications developer in building new and innovative mobile applications. Next killer applications can get as much as P 25,000 cash and brand new Nokia smartphones.
Your application must comply with the program’s theme, Innovating for the Connected Filipino, and should connect to the Internet either via GPRS/3G to deliver its core functionality using S40 Nokia Platforms using Java MIDP 2.0 or S60 Nokia Platforms using Symbian C++/QT, WRT or FlashLite.
For more information, visit their official page.
I work in the US now, but you know what, if such opportunities were available to me when i was a student, i probably wont be an employee.