I got into college this year, and I’m half-done through the first semester of Computer Sciences. Despite the little amount of time I’ve been there, I’ve already made a few cool things. The most recent one has to do with an international competition.
There’s this yearly programming contest, which is part of the Imagine Cup - a competition sponsored (owned, more likely) by Microsoft. It’s happening in three stages: regional eliminatories, then national eliminatories, then the last stage when teams from all over the world will gather in Japan for the finals.
The goal of the competition is to create new technologies that cause impact in the lives of people around the world. I started a project which involves benign social engineering - and winning or not, after the finals I’ll put my executive summary for the plan online.
So far, the competition has gone like this: in my region there were 150 teams. The regional eliminatories were last week. My team was the winning one, so we advanced to the national eliminatories. They’ll happen on May 5, and we’ll be aired live in a Webcast. There are only 8 teams now, but they’re all about the same as mine.
If we win, we’ll fly to Japan by July. If I get to travel aboard, winning or not, I’ll have to do passport job, so I’m considering updating it with the american embassy/consulate/whatever too (been there, but the pass expired last year). In that case, would you guys let me into the next Cali meeting? I’ll bring you japanese souvenirs ;D
