Type:- Project Contest

Organized by:- Silicon India

Dates:-

October 1st 2009:            Registration & Submission of Project synopsis open.

December 31st 2009:       Registration for Participation closes.

January 15th 2010:          Submission for project synopsis closes.

March 27th 2010:             Selection of finalists at college level. Two teams in every branch                                          will be shortlisted and asked to submit a final deliverables, which                                          will be basis for the selection of the finalists.

April 15th 2010:                Deadline for the submission of the final project report.

May 30th 2010:                Announcement of finalists(no more than 50 per branch), who will                                          be invited to the final event in Bangalore.

June 12th 2010:                Final evaluation and presentation of awards.

Contacts:-

SiliconIndia
No. 124, 2nd floor, Surya Chambers, South Block
Airport Main Road, Murugeshpalya
Bangalore-560017.
Tel: +080 43402006

Eligibility:- Taking part in the contest is free and open for all final year students of engineering and MCA, whose college is affiliated to AICTE and UGC in India. We are not asking a participant to do anything new here. The same project which a student executes as part of his/her engineering curriculum can be submitted for AIEPIC.

In brief:-

ll India Engineering Project Innovation Contest (AIEPIC, pronounced as eye-pic) aims to identify, promote and reward outstanding engineering talent across India. The contest is open to all final year undergraduate engineering students and MCA students in India. This contest is expected to bring together more than six lakh students from 3000+ colleges across India to showcase their projects. This is the only event of its kind being organized for the first time in India. The contest provides a level-playing field for every budding engineer to display his/her technical brilliance.
If you are an eligible candidate for the contest, register yourself, invite your team members, and post a summary of the project you intend to execute. You need to constantly update the progress of your project every 15 days. You can also vote/ comment on projects of other students and network with industry experts for guidance.
Through a rigorous and challenging selection process, a distinguished panel of judges comprising of scientists and industry leaders will select 500 finalists (equally from each branch) from a nationwide pool of thousands, to attend the final round in Bangalore during April 2010. There will also be several awards and incentives for the finalists and their colleges. For details check the Awards page.
If you are a working professional, this is a great opportunity to help the institution where you graduated from by guiding the students and help India to move ahead in technology sector. To know more, please visit the Mentor section. You can also propose project ideas in the Project Bank section.
A comprehensive case study will be made of each of the winning projects. The winners and their project details will also be announced to the press and media. All participants and their projects will be displayed on the websites of the organizing companies, as well as that of the sponsors.

Website:- http://www.siliconindia.com/aiepic/

Type:- Contest

Organized by:- AT&T, Cepstral, Google, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, Opera and Voxeo

Dates:-

Registration Open till- Noember 30, 2009

Application Submission-January 15, 2010

Announcement of Winner- March, 2010

In Brief:-

AVIOS is announcing the fourth annual student application contest sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, Google, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, Opera and Voxeo. Students enrolled in colleges or universities worldwide are encouraged to participate in this year’s contest by registering to participate by November 30, 2009 and submitting applications to our judges by January 15, 2010.

Applications must involve speech input and/or output, and may be either pure speech or multimodal.

Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1,000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly.

Winners will be announced at the Voice Search Conference in San Diego in March, 2010.

website:- http://avios.org/contest/index.htm

Type:- Contest

Organized by:- Spark

Dates:-

1. Phase I registration: Open now!
• Extended Deadline October 15, 2009
2. Extended Phase II Deadline, October 22 (only for P1 finalist Challengers)
2. Phase II Entry Delivery Deadline: October 22
3. Special Events: the Spark Creative Seminar and the Exhibition Premiere Celebration, October 29, at the Autodesk Design Gallery, San Francisco and at the Guangzhou Design Week, December 4th – 6th

Contacts:-

Spark Design & Architecture Awards
P.O. Box 645
Croton On Hudson, NY 10520-2017
USA
Intl: +1-914-481-6106
Toll free: 866-846-6715
Email: admin @ sparkawards.com
(remove spaces)

In Brief:-

The Spark Awards are the exciting new competition created to promote great design and designers and encourage people to explore their creativity. We invite everyone to participate–designers, art directors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, institutions, ad agencies, students and non-professionals may enter, interact and enjoy Sparking.

Graphics, product design, transportation and architecture are just a few of the many design categories accepted. If you or your company create great designs, don’t miss the opportunity to compete in this important event.

To accommodate the greatest possible range of designs and designers, and to lower the initial cost of entry, the SparkAwards are configured as a "two-phase" competition–just like a sports playoff series. In Phase I, entrants upload 3 images of their work and short mission statement to the Spark website. 
The Jury reviews the work and selects candidates to compete in Phase II. (Last year the entries were of a very high caliber and most went on to Challenger status.) There is a double pricing structure for entrants. The Phase I median fee is $125 for professionals, $75 for design students. The "Challenger Candidates" selected by the jury have the option to enter the Phase II competition, which has a fee of $250 (students/novices- free in Phase II. Status must be verifiable). Upon payment, this group automatically places in our online show and qualifies for review by the live Jury. Winners of Phase II are awarded either a prestigious Bronze Spark, Silver Spark, Gold Spark or the ultimate Spark! Award.

Website:-  http://www.sparkawards.com/

Type:- Contest

Organized  by:- Cosmic Circuits Pvt Limited

Dates:-

SEP 14^th – Registration begins
OCT 9^th – Planetary Stage begins
OCT 25^th – Planetary Stage ends
OCT 30^th – Planetary Stage results
NOV 2^nd – Emission Stage begins
NOV 23^rd – Emission Stage ends
NOV 27^th – Emission Stage results
DEC 26^th – Stellar Nursery

Register Here

In Brief:-

the second edition of Nebula, the nation-wide analog design contest by Cosmic Circuits Pvt. Ltd. The definitive analog design contest was introduced last year as Nebula’08 and received a deluging response from electronic hobbyists all over the country. Click here for more information on Nebula.

Enthused by the response, we are glad to announce the launch of the second edition of Nebula, Nebula’09. Like in its earlier edition, the contest is open to all students studying in Indian Universities. Registration opens on the 14^th of September and is completely free of charge.

The format of the contest remains the same as earlier. The contest will be held in three rounds with the final prize money being :

Rs. 30,000 for First Prize

Rs. 20,000 for Second Prize

Rs. 10,000 for Third Prize

This year, however, the enthusiasts have more reason to cheer as they gear up for the first round. Nebula will feature analog teasers where a question will be posted each week, from the day registration opens (14^th Sep) to the commence of the first round (9^th Oct). Exciting gifts are to be won by two lucky entries for each question on successful response. Check out this page for more details on teasers.

Nebula’09 will also see the number of finalists increased to 20 from 12, with the final round held over two days at our design house in Bangalore. 20 rookie engineers will get to meet and discuss their solutions with our designers, giving them a quantum leap in experience.

The first round, the Planetary stage, commences on 9^th October and will be held on-line, like in the inaugural edition. The Emission stage starts on 2^nd November and will be followed by the Stellar Nursery held in the last weekend of December (26^th).

Website:- http://cosmiccircuits.com/university/nebula/index.htm

Type:- Award

Organized by:- Google

Dates:-

Application Dates Open:

15^th September – 31^st October 2009

Decision Announced:

January 2010

Prize:- INR 100000

Eligibility:-

Candidates must:

1.Be enrolled as a full time student in a recognized Indian institution.

2.Be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related majors.

3.Maintain a cumulative CGPA of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, 8.0 on a 10.0 scale or equivalent in their current program.

4.Be enrolled in the 2^nd, 3^rd or final year if applying when in their bachelor’s degree, 1^st or 2^nd year if they are applying when in their master’s degree or are PhDs students in a related field.

Website:-    click here

Type:- Programming Contest

Organized by:- Infosys Technologies Under Campus Connect Programme

Dates:- Registration and Teaser round starts from september 10, 2009

In Brief:-

Infosys is pleased to announce Aspirations2020 – Programming Contest for engineering and MCA students. This is organized by Campus Connect team of Infosys and sponsored by Infosys Technologies Limited.

Aspirations2020 is a platform for students of engineering colleges to prepare themselves to become smart professionals.This contest under Aspirations2020 will encourage the spirit of competitiveness and accelerate learning through extra curricular activities, within the student community.

Rules:-

Rules and Regulations – Programming Contest:

participationt is open for second, third and final year engineering and second & third year MCA students. Students from any engineering discipline/ branch may participate.

THis team event. Each team will comprise of three members from the same institution. Team composition cannot change once the college round is completed.

You need to register for the contest as a participant on the Campus Connect Portal by providing necessary personal data, before the registration closing date. You will find some tips and other learning resources to help you prepare for the contest.

Once you register for the event, indicate your acceptance that the organizers decision will be final and binding.

Prizes and certificates will be distributed for winning teams from inter-college contest.College level winners will receive certificates.

Website:- http://campusconnect.infosys.com/Aspirations/

Type:- Robotics Competition & Series of Robotics Workshops

Organized by:- Thinklabs

Dates:-

First Regional Round
NIT Warangal, Technozion
Date: 26/09/09

The Finals to be held in Mumbai in April’10.

The venue of the Finals will be IIT Bombay

Problem statements

1. Regional

2. Final

In brief:-

RoboLiga in its very first edition is going to be huge and grand covering over 600 engineering colleges across India. It is expected to attract more than 2000 participants from different parts of the country.

RoboLiga’10 is a 2-tier event. The competition has 15 regional rounds and one finals in Mumbai. The regional rounds would take place at different locations including NIT’s and other prominent engineering colleges. The locations are chosen evenly such that students from different locale can participate with ease.

The top 3 teams from each regional round would qualify for the Finals in Mumbai.

To groom the students with the basics of robotics and embedded systems ThinkLABS plans to conduct 100 workshops across the country. The workshops not only will give them an edge over solving the problem statements but also help them realize the importance of robotics and embedded systems in present industrial world.

Register for Event

Register for Workshop

Website:- http://www.roboliga.com/

Type:- Contest

Organized by:- Intel India

Dates:-

Launch- Opens for Registration
August 27th , 2009

Phase 1 : Deadline for Submission of abstract
Nov 30th , 2009

Results of Phase 1
Dec 30th  , 2009

Phase 2 : Deadline for Submission of final abstracts by shortlisted teams
Jan 30th , 2010

Results of Phase 2 – Selected teams will be short listed for the finals
Feb 28th  , 2010

Finalists to receive the application reference designs kits
March 31st, ,2010

Finals – F2F, Presentations to Jury &

Award Ceremony
August 2010

Website:- http://inteliec.redbaron.in

Prizes:-

1.Intel Innovation Grand Prize : Rs. 10, 00, 000/-

2. Student Category

a. Rs. 100 000/ – cash prize for winners
b. Rs. 50,000/- for 1st runners up
c. Rs. 25, 000/- for 2nd runners up

3. Professional Category

a. Rs. 100 000/ – cash prize for winners
b. Rs. 50,000/- for runners up
c. Rs. 25, 000/- for 2nd runners up

4. Gold Medals from Intel for selected ideas based on embedded technology

5. Internship Opportunities at Intel India for deserving students from winners and runners up teams*

In Brief:-

Intel Higher Education Program in collaboration with Embedded and Communication Group (ECG) of Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd., proudly presents the Intel India Embedded Challenge 2010 – An Embedded design contest for students, interested individuals & entrepreneurs from all over India. This contest has been put forward to inspire the vast technically savvy community in India to architect, design and develop novel embedded applications in areas such as – Consumer electronics, Digital security surveillance, Medical, Storage & others.

The embedded application must be designed to use the low power Intel hardware platforms. There are also range of application reference designs provided by Intel. In order to select the right platform you can also use the step-by-step guide by clicking on  http://edc.intel.com/Step-by-Step/

There are two categories of participants – Student & Professional.

The student Category includes engineering students (UG/PG/PhD) and MBA students. Professional category includes all technical professionals interested in embedded. Faculties from academia can either participate in the students category with student teams or participate individually or in team of fellow faculties under the Professional category

As a first step a team of participants consisting of 1-4 individuals must submit the idea/abstract with as much details as possible. Based on the abstract, evaluators will shortlist projects. Once shortlisted, the participating team will be required to submit a detailed abstract. Based on the abstract, the evaluators will shortlist the projects to be considered as finalists.

The shortlisted finalists will get one of the Intel hardware platform free of cost based on their choice or based on evaluation by Intel. They can then continue to work on their prototype for the final contest. Intel India will also offer any guidance and help by assigning mentors for the projects.

The Intellectual Property (IP) rights will remain solely with the participants, with Intel having rights to publish the contest details. It is recommended that the participants take appropriate steps to protect their IP rights. Intel will not be responsible for misuse/loss of IP rights that may arise due to this contest.

Register here

Type:- Open Contest

Organized by:- Google

Dates:- 

Doodle Submission Deadline

30^th September 2009

Finalists Announced

21^st October 2009

Online Public Vote

Public votes for their favourite doodles
21^st October 2009 – 31^st October 2009

Prize Amount:- Rs. 1 lakh

Website:- www.google.co.in/doodle4google

In Brief:-

Google reflect the ever-changing world of our users through the logo designs on our homepage. These ‘doodles’ celebrate scientists, artists, local events or special dates and are designed by our original doodler, 31-year-old, Dennis Hwang.

We’re now giving you a chance to design a doodle for us, through our doodle competition, Doodle 4 Google. If you are currently a student in any school in India (between the 1^st and 10^th standards), then this is your chance to have your doodle be displayed on the Google India homepage. The theme of this competition is ‘My India’. We’d love to see what your country means to you when represented in a doodle. Whether it’s music or dance, famous Indian art, Mahatma Gandhi, the Taj Mahal, cricket, our scientific achievements or the Indian people as a community- we’re interested in seeing these representations of what India means to you and how you represent it using images.

The best doodles will be voted on by a panel of judges as well as by the Indian public, and the winning doodle will be featured on the Google India homepage for a day, to be viewed by millions of people. The final winner will also win his or her very own laptop (and a technology grant for their school)!

Register Here

Type:- Contest

Dates:- 1st June to 31st October 2009

Website:- http://www.bluetooth.com

Brief:-

With the Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, running from 1 June to 31 October, the Bluetooth SIG is looking for new applications and products using Bluetooth low energy technology in sports, fitness and sports-related health care applications.

The sports and fitness market is virtually untapped as far as Bluetooth technology is concerned. Devices such as heart rate monitors, pedometers, odometers and monitors that are built in to clothing and watches all require very low cost and long battery life.

Health and fitness devices tend to send short messages at relatively low frequencies (100ms to 1s update rates). Short reconnect times and low peak currents are critical as well as extremely low standby currents in order to enable button cell battery implementations with useful battery life