44656035 the Great Mind Challenge 2010

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Are you ready for the Challenge?


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A nation-wide software development contest

Target Audience Engineering Students

Steps:

Create Team - Min 2 Max 4 students & 1 Facultymentor

Choose a project scenario and Register the team in thecontest website

Attend Awareness sessions & complete the onlinetraining

Create the project and submit

Take home Prizes, Certificates and recognition!

The Great Mind Challenge


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3 IBM Confidential

Target

100,000 Registrations

1800 Colleges

5000 Faculty Members

Registrations: 112400

More than 50 colleges have made TGMC the official college

project

Gained entry in the Limca Book of Records as the biggest

Software Development contest

TGMC now extended to business as The Great Mind Challenge

for Business, 2009

More than 2000 projects submitted


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TGMC 2009 Winners and Felicitation


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Whats new in TGMC 2010

New website on MydeveloperWorks

More technical resources

New project scenarios

Online learning course Bonus marks applicable Soft Skills training through IL&FS Bonus marks applicable

No start date to SRS and Project submission

Bonus points for early submissions SRS

7 Bonus Points if submitted one month after registration. 5 Bonus Points if submitted before December 31st , 2010.

Project

7 Bonus Points if submitted within 2 months after SRS Submission.

5 Bonus Points if submitted before January,2011.


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Timeline and Milestones

Synopsis Submission Deadline Dec 31, 2010 7 Bonus Points if submitted one month after registration.

5 Bonus Points if submitted before December 31st, 2010

Project Submission Deadline - Feb 28, 2011 7 Bonus Points if submitted within 2 months after SRS Submission.

5 Bonus Points if submitted before January,2011.

First round results March 31, 2011

Face to Face Evaluations Apr 20-30, 2011

Final Results May 10, 2011

Felicitation Ceremony and TGMC 2011 launch June

10, 2011


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How the contest works

This section will detail the workings of the contest covering thefollowing areas

Timelines

Eligibility

Registration

Project Synopsis

Resources

Communication

Website Project Submission

Winners

Felicitation Ceremony


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Eligibility Criteria

Open to

Faculty & Students

Under graduate Engineering and Master ofComputer Application course students.


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Registration

All registrations happen online on MydeveloperWorks Registration Process for TGMC 2010:

Registration in MydeveloperWorks

Register for TGMC 2010

Create your teams profile

Students with a minimum team size of 2 or maximum size of 4 will have to

register While registering themselves as a team one of their faculty member must

be included as a faculty mentor. Faculty mentor too should have a MydWID.

Students can participate only in one team; whereas faculty can guidemore than one team.

Students & Faculty who have registered last year have to register again. Choose a project scenario from the list or they can come up with their

own


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Project Synopsis - SRS

Teams select Project Scenarios fromthe list that IBM provides

Students can also choose to workon their own Project Scenarios

Teams need to use IBM software tobuild these projects.

The teams need to submit a projectsynopsis which IBM will evaluate,mentor and give feed back for theteams to start working on theproject.

IBM will also provide free software

and training (online) for the same toenable students to work on theprojects using this software.

Online training module available

Sample Projects Development of an Auto

Summarization tool

Online library managementSystem

Feature rich Resume Builder Stock and Portfolio

Management solution

Stop global Warming

Smart City

Online National Poling

Chess Masters


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What makes a good project

Should use IBM software to build Should include

A copy of the project scenario

A copy of the synopsis that was submitted before

Latest version of the Project Synopsis

A short presentation strictly less than 10 slides

About the team

About the tools that were used Understanding of the Project Scenario / Problem Statement

About the application that was created

The Key Functionalities/Innovative Features, if any, in the application

Highlight if you have used or proposed SOA, XML, Tivoli etc in the completesolution of your application; if you have not used Tivoli you can highlightwhere it fits during the implementation

End user feedback if available (From someone who is not part of the

application development team or related to the domain for which theapplication is created)

Proper End-user Help Manual on how to use your application/solution

The installation script text file, in which you must specify the step by step processfor deploying/running your application in a new machine


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How to learn?

Students have to learn the relevant IBM and Open

Source technologies by

Working with eMentors through Discussion Forums

available in the TGMC WebSite Utilize online resources (AI and dW) and materials provided

in CDs

Take help from faculty guides

Online training module available Soft skills training through IL&FS


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Resources

Through the project building phase, teams haveaccess to the following from IBM

Website for reference

Free Software

Ebooks Training Material

Important online tutorials

Discussion forums

Ementors

Resources Section

FAQs


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FreeFree SoftwaresSoftwares


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Evaluation Criteria

Details Description PointsPhase - 1

SRS/Synopsis Quality of SRS submitted as per the guideline set 10

Technology Technology used in the project 10

XML Use of XML in Web-Application 10

Tools Used IBM Softwares used in the project 10

Code Flawless Code Quality 10

Design Software Design using UML 10

E- Learning Online course @ 1 point per student/faculty in the team 5

Phase - 2

Platform Used Linux 10

Usability All the modules in the application is user friendly 10

UI User Interface Design 10

Functionalities Various functionalities provided in that application 10

Local Language Local Language Support in the project 10

E/O & P Execution, Output and Performance 10

Soft Skills IL&FS English Program @ 1 point per student/faculty in the team 5


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Winners

Winner 1st Runner up

2nd Runner up

20 winning teams

All Girls team in the Top 50 get special recognition Top 30 colleges (colleges that have submitted the maximum

number of projects)

Prizes range from Laptops to the winners to IPod I Touch,Digital Cameras. All winners get Certificates as well (2010

prizes are still being decided)

All teams that submit a valid project get ParticipationCertificates


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Thank you!www.ibm.com/in/academicinitiative

www.ibm.com/in/tgmc


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Guidelines for Project PreparationGuidelines for Project Preparation an Illustrationan Illustration

Name of the Project TGMC

Objective/Vision Looking for an online comprehensive solution to manage the

complete life-cycle of a national-level software project contest

where students and faculties from all states and universities can

participate.

User of the System A. Team members (Students/faculties)B. E-Mentors (Industrialists or academicians those want to help

teams in project completion)

C. Administrators (IBM team)

Technologies to be

Used

J2EE, UML, XML, AJAX, Web 2.0, Web-services, SOA etc.

Tools to be Used Rational Rose/RSA

RAD/Eclipse/WSAD/ WebSphere Portal

WAS/WAS CE

DB2 Express C or DB2 UDB

Linux will be the preferred OS.


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FunctionalRequirements

I. Secure registration and profile management facilities forTeam/students/faculties

II. Tracking teams progress. SRS and project submission and

feedbacks.

III. Facilitate communication - Discussion forum/chat/mail

IV. Help book for participants/Timely instructions to students onmail/sms

V. Training and software requests and their management

VI. Uploading results, tutorials, or instructions

VII. Strategic data and graphs for admin and college / university

authorityVIII. Basic and advance admin facilities like add/update E-mentors,

backup/recovery of data, generating various reports etc.



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Non-Functional

Requirements

I. Secure access of confidential data (users details). SSL

can be used.

II. 24 X 7 availability

III. Better component design to get better performance at

peak time

IV. Flexible service based architecture will be highly

desirable for future extension



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Optional

Features

Java based client for Administrator

Resume maker for students

Customizable color scheme or skins

User Interface

Priorities

A. Professional look and feel

B. Use of AJAX atleast with all registration forms

C. Use of Graphical tool like JASPER to show strategic data to

admin

D. Reports exportable in .XLS, .PDF or any other desirable format

Reports A. State wise/University wise/College wise and scenario wise

participation number and listsB. Team wise, location wise, technology wise students and faculty

list

C. Teams- submitted SRS and/or projects

D. Mentors list, trainings happened etc. etc.



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Other Important

issues

Website should be highly customizable and flexible enough

to easily deploy. That means, if I want to use this solution

for Software project contest organized by my own

university, least time should be taken to customize it.

Team Size (Maximum) 4

Final Deliverable must

Include

A. Online or offline help to above said users, Application

deployment executive and developer

B. Application archive ( .war/.ear ) with source code

C. Database backup and DDL Script


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