Lucknow College wins Go-Alive Challenge

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced that Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology and Management (BBDNITM), Lucknow emerged as the winner in Microsoft’s nationwide ‘Go-Alive Challenge’ contest.

Muslim Association College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai emerged the first and second runners up respectively, said a press release.

Initiated under the Microsoft Windows Live@Edu program, the contest was to design and build an innovative and interactive website for their college using simple Windows Livened tools.

The main purpose of the contest was to empower students to build an interactive online environment and take online collaboration to a new level hitherto unexplored by most academic institutes in India. The winner received a cash prize of Rs. 2,50,000 from Microsoft.

Prasanna Meduri, director, Windows Client Business Group, Microsoft India said, “I congratulate the students of BBDNITM, Lucknow on winning this contest. They have built an array of innovative features that the college students and faculty members can now use.”

He further added, “It’s very exciting to see the zest displayed by the students into transforming their colleges into cool tech-savvy, always connected institutions. They are all champions for the ingenuity and fervour they have demonstrated towards making their campuses ‘alive’."

The release added that the contest witnessed the participation of 250 institutions across 73 Indian cities.