Why You Should Enter the Imagine Cup

If you are thinking of getting involved with the Imagine Cup Software Design competition I’m hosting a couple of Live Meetings where I describe why you should.  The meetings both contain the same content, one is in this evening and I’m trying not to think about the time of the second one…

You can find details of how to sign up on the Imagine Cup Software Design page or you can follow these simple steps that I’ve stolen from it.

1. Install Microsoft Office Live Meeting. We recommend you do this in advance to avoid technical difficulties.
2. Join the meeting on February 7, 2011 at 19:00 GMT. Find out what time it is in your country/region.
3. Join the meeting on February 8, 2011 at 6:00 GMT. Find out what time it is in your country/region.

There will be fun, jokes and some rare Imagine Cup pictures from way back. Oh, and if you sign up and enter it might just change your life forever.

Update on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 08:00PM by Rob

One presentation down, one to go. Thanks for being a good audience and staying to the very end. Some great questions too.

Update on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 08:47AM by Rob

...and we're done. Did the second meeting at 6:00 am this morning. Thanks for being another great audience. With a bit of luck we might meet up for the next meeting. Stay tuned for dates and times.

Comments

[Karen]

Is this for the 2012 Software Design competition? I thought you mentioned the 2011 competition in England had already finished taking entrants for round 1?

[Rob]

Sorry for the confusion. The way the competition works some countries have their own local qualifiers. Some of these have completed and some have not. For countries without their own local qualifiers there is still time to form a team and enter into the worldwide competition.

The UK local competition has completed round 1 and so if you are in the UK it is already too late to take part in the Software Development challenge. But if you are working on a mobile idea the Windows Phone competition is open until the middle of March. If you have an idea and some code and want a phone to try it on, come and see me in Hull and I'll see what I can do.

[Marcin Limanski]

First time I used this and it went quite well. I'm looking forward to the future live meetings :)

[Sunny]

Rob, please, I missed the meeting. How can I download the video, I've searched the imagine cup site but found nothing. A direct link to the video will be helpful. Thanks

[Rob]

Hi. They are working on the video at the moment. As soon as it becomes available I'll let you know.