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IBM launches The Great Mind Challenge '09

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BANGALORE: IT major IBM in collaboration with its business partners today announced “The Great Mind Challenge 2009”, a contest under the company’s academic initiative programs that provide student programmers with a unique opportunity to develop innovative solutions using open standards-based IT tools under grueling real time situations.

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IBM also declared the K.L.N. College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu as the winners, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida as the first runners up and Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu as the second runners up for the 2008 challenge.

The Great Mind Challenge 2009 will enable participants to get a hands-on experience on IBM software products, namely Tivoli, Information Management, Lotus, Rational and WebSphere, and Eclipse which is Open Source on a Linux platform, said a press release.

Mentors from IBM along with the college faculty will work closely with the students enabling them throughout the programme.

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Himanshu Goyal, country manager- Academic Initiative, Developer Works and Globalization IBM Software India/South Asia said, “There is no doubt that the industry requires more adaptive innovators – people who have deep proficiency in a specific area, say engineering but at the same time comfortable in soft skills as well. This is primarily because the work environment is increasingly becoming collaborative.”

TGMC 2008 had nearly 50,000 students from 1400 colleges participating from across India. There were close to 1050 project submissions out of emerged 20 winners.

A total of 400 plus workshops were conducted on the software products around the country in 2008. The winning team from K.L.N. College of Engineering worked on tools such as DB2, Rational Application Developer, Websphere application server, Struts, Ajax, XML and J2EE to develop a project named City without Crime, added the release.

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