If you haven't
already encouraged your students to participate in the 2013 IBM Master the
Mainframe Contest (which begins on Oct 7, with registration open now) please pass this
notice along and encourage them to compete!
This year, the IBM
Academic Initiative System z team is giving away over $53,000 in prizes,
including Google Nexus 10 tablets, expenses-paid trips, custom T-shirts, and a
ton of swag! Plus, tons of great technical challenges to give your students
hands-on experience and sought-after skills.
Visit our 2013 Master the
Mainframe Contest homepage for details and registration: https://contest-reg.dfw.ibm.com/contest/usaca.nsf
We also put a link to
a printable PDF flyer on the homepage to help promote the contest to
your students.
The contest is an
educational (and fun!) tool that progresses in difficulty and prize value as
contestants complete a variety of tasks, logging into a remote mainframe system
from their own workstations. Many professors offer the contest as extra
credit or a mandatory assignment -- if you are interested in receiving reports
on your students' progress to help with your grading, you can request them from
me (Mike Todd - todd@us.ibm.com) at any
time. The contest runs through December 28.
This year, the custom
Master the Mainframe Contest T-shirt (the prize for being among the first 2,600
contestants to complete Part 1) will feature "tour dates" on the
back, which will match the hometowns of the 50 schools that have the most
registrants as of October 7.
You can connect with
other students and educators, and keep up with the latest contest
announcements, on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/MasterTheMainframe
Students will also be
encouraged to use their mainframe skills to help them apply for the jobs on our
System z Job Board at systemzjobs.com, and we'll help connect employers with students
who complete Part 2 of the contest
Our team hopes to see
your students Mastering the Mainframe this fall. Best wishes for a
successful semester!
Best regards,
Mike
Michael
C. Todd
IBM Academic Initiative System z
No comments:
Post a Comment