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We sent off our our Imagine Cup Software Development competition entries today. Last day of the submissions, just before the deadline. Well, this is a student competition…. We haven’t sent in any Game Development entries yet, mainly because the deadline isn’t until next year.

We had a meeting earlier this week to finalise the entries and get things sorted. As a motivational aid I brought along a tin of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls. There are a fantastic mint powered confection that have a great flavour and a wonderful inconsistency. Some are just sweet, some have just a hint of mint and some have loads. Very nice, and you can now get them at local stores (previously we used to go to Whitby to buy them). We even noticed last week in London that they had them in Harvey Nichols food hall. Very posh.

Anyhoo, I’m not sure if we are going to make the UK finals again this year (the list of finalists comes out early next year)  but you never know.

Another night out

Went out for a meal tonight. Good food down at Fudge.

Bumper Christmas Wordsearch

If you fancy having a go at the Christmas Bash 2009 wordsearch, and find out what all the fuss was about last night, you can find the file here. I'm sorry, but there will be no prizes...

Xmas Bash

Another Xmas Bash today. Pizza, pop, sweeties, Lego Rock Band, Buzz Quiz, Band Hero and Wii stuff.

You set up all these attractions and all people want to do is the word search…

Mind you, there were some good prizes…

…some very intensive Team Fortress 2 sessions..

.. with some Lego Rock Band..

..and sweeties.

Thanks to everyone who came. It was a real blast. There are some more pictures on Flick, click on any image to find your way to my account. If you have any pictures of your own tag them HullXmasBash2009.

Project Working

We had some of our project presentations today. For the last few weeks teams of students have been working for a fussy and uncommunicative customer (me) making a rather complicated solution.

I didn’t get to see all the presentations, but it was very nice to see people standing up and describing their designs, along with how they had worked together to produce working solutions.  Well done folks.