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« on: May 09, 2008, 05:27:51 pm »

Greetings!!

It gives me great pleasure in announcing to the world that our very own team SKAN have been awarded the 2nd place in the Imagine Cup India National finals!

Congratulations!

Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, team Novices@work won the competition and are going to the world finals....congratulations to you guys too!!

I guess the remaining details will be provided, hopefully by our admin, once he's back...

Keep posted for more details....

Anna

EDIT: SKAN amongst top 3 in the world in Software Design Interoperability Award...to represent INDIA at France!
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2008, 06:51:54 pm »

hey SKAN, Congratulations !!   Yippee!! Party  .. This is absolutely brilliant.... Congratulations to Novices@work for winning the competition...  headbang

notworthy notworthy All hail team SKAN !!   notworthy notworthy
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2008, 10:14:26 am »

On behalf of team SKAN, I'd like to thank everyone for their support. :-) The most loyal of our fans Smile
Congrats to Novices@Work. Good luck at the world stage. Have fun at Paris :-)

It was a very good experience. Gutted not to have come first, obviously but it doesn't end here. In fact, it's just the beginning because we have been selected for Incubation at IIM-A's CIIE (Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship) so its going to be fun.

I'll try to get hold of all the pics we had from Bangalore which were nearly not as many as I would have liked (since you can't take pictures in the MS campus Frown/Sad). I'll get the pics I dumped on Noel's lappy and put 'em up asap (might take a while considering my connection, unless you can offer me use of a better connection for about 50mb uploads Tongue) Also, we had an article in this month's digit that most of you have seen, yet I'm trying to get a copy from somewhere and get it scanned and put up. Also, we (team SKAN and Novices@Work) are to have an interview which is to be the cover article of Digit for June/July BigGrin Blue Mango Films already hosts the Imagine Cup theme video which can be found easier on You Tube (Title: Imagine Cup 2008 Anthem). Blue Mango Films, we are told, will have pictures and videos of the Final day of competition. Once its up, I'll put up links. Thirdly, we were interviewed as India Finals and this video will be on MSN Soapbox at first and then.. wait for this.. enough excitement yet? Tongue Channel 8!! :o

I plan to put up all these videos and pictures and in fact, have them downloaded (remember my connection? Tongue) So I'll keep updating to any one who's interested. The Soapbox vid should be up in a few days, the Channel 8 may be in 2 weeks, the Blue Mango Films videos in 10 days or so. As for my pics and vids, they'll take about a week or two too :-)

Thank you once again for reading all this rambling from my side. Hope you weren't too bored and if you were.. doesn't matter, you've probably already read this Tongue Again, I'd like to thank you on behalf of the entire team (in case they don't reply here anytime soon seeing as they have vivas).

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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2008, 09:14:25 pm »

First reports coming in..

Notes on links:
2) Lakshman is a Microsoft Student Partner and was kind enough to video us. Smile So go have a look. I'll be waiting for a few hours to let it stream though Tongue
4) I suggest you have a look at the YouTube video to get a summary of things that happened Smile
5) OK. Last year's finalists got their own page. Then again they got internship interviews too Tongue This is pretty cool none the less Smile
7) For those of you who don't know, Professor Sadagopan is the Founder Director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and was on the discussion panel for the event Smile

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eoWQkUKk3QA in case someone want to see the IC 08 theme video. Our pics are somewhere in there. I haven't seen it. Couldn't see it even when it was being shown on screen in the finals Tongue If someone sees it, could you get me a screenie of the image of team SKAN? Tongue

Its not really a special mention but.. a wrap up of the entire thing can be found in my blog. Huge post, then again that's as small as I could have made it :-)
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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2008, 09:14:46 pm »

This is just so wonderful !!! Simply Great !!

Heres the youtube video screenshot :

Team SKAN

Hope we have a party before you all leave for IIM...  Party
Good Luck !

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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2008, 09:27:12 pm »

congrats SKAN !!!
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2008, 08:52:18 am »

Thanks Rupal for that screenie :-D
Thank you Mr. whihathac and congrats to you and your team too. Mentor@Work Wink
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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2008, 12:38:50 am »

We're on soapbox. I'm not in the mood to find a way to direct link since it doesn't seem to have direct way to link mentioned.. nothing I found at 2:38 AM Tongue
So go to http://soapbox.msn.com and search for "Imagine Cup SKAN"
Have fun Smile Its a nice 5 minute interview. If you guys want to have a look at the interviews of the other 7 finalists then remove the keyword "SKAN" from the search Smile
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« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2008, 01:29:41 pm »

A few other places too.. Smile
Bhavik's blog (No credits for uthaofying from here Tongue)
Onkar Bhat's Live Space
Indian InfoLine

There are many other places as well.. I'll keep updating when I have the time Smile
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« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2008, 10:01:50 pm »

Team SKAN - consisting of Sameet Singh, Karun AB, Amith George and Noel Sequeira - has had a wonderful year so far.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Team SKAN will represent India at the Imagine Cup World Finals at Paris, in the Software Design Interoperability Award Category. Team SKAN was also awarded the 2nd place at the National Finals of the Software Design Invitational held at Bangalore.

Apart from this, Team SKAN emerged victorious at the Innovation Accelerator Programme organized by Microsoft and CIIE at IIM-A.

Cheers
SaM (Sameet Singh)
Video: Team SKAN- SDI 1st Runners-up at the Imagine Cup 2008 National Finals in India

EDIT: So we have the results for the interop award from Imagine Cup 2008 and I'm proud to announce that Team SKAN are the world champions! :o
To our knowledge, this is the first Indian team to win first place at the Imagine Cup and we are the first Interop Champs BigGrin We are to recieve a prize of $10,000, a trip to Redmond for 2 nights and a day and an internship interview for MS Interop at Redmond. This is what the docs said Tongue

Au Revoir!
John Anderton (Karun)
(I added my edit and it kinda broke the post SaM had made.. sorry about that Frown/Sad)
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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2008, 12:40:19 pm »

http://blogs.msdn.com/onyourmark/archive/2008/06/04/team-skan-imagine-cup-2008-software-design-interoperability-award-world-finalists.aspx
MSDN Blogs Smile Thanks Mark Wink

EDIT:
http://blogs.msdn.com/craig/archive/2008/06/02/imagine-cup-interoperability-award-finalists.aspx
Another MSDN blog, this time by Craig. He's part of the interop team for the Imagine Cup. Smile

http://in.biz.yahoo.com/080521/138/6tyqm.html

Not to mention http://www.thinkdigit.com/lib/download.php?file_path=../imaginecup/coverage/MS_Imagine_24-25.pdf
(I wonder what's in the July issue. They were supposed to mail us a copy, right?)

http://iraveesh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!79F830098092DB4E!184.entry?wa=wsignin1.0
Raveesh is another MSP who was present in Bangalore Smile
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2008, 02:29:38 am »

Here is the Paris collection
http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/40-seconds-of-nothing/
http://imaginecup.com/about/news.aspx
http://imaginecup.com/MyStuff/MyTeam.aspx?TeamID=8556 (Updated! but I shall add some more stuff once I can go home and login from there)
http://blogs.msdn.com/craig/archive/2008/07/08/imagine-cup-2008-interoperability-award-winner-team-skan-of-india.aspx


For those of you who don't know, Craig is like the guy for interop! :o
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