IBM Great Mind Challenge 2009

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What is "The Great Mind Challenge" contest?

The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) is a Nation-wide Software Development contest conducted by the IBM Academic Initiative Team. This contest focuses on enabling Technical institutes to nurture students. Grooming them to become part of a competitive workforce by arming them with market ready skills. It also aims to provide student programmers with a unique opportunity to develop innovative solutions using open standards-based IT tools from IBM in complex real time situations.

Idea Behind "The Great Mind Challenge" contest?
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.".Every day, you are faced with choices with decisions that in all probability will affect the way your life will pan out. While the opportunities or the Doors that are presented are not in your hands, the choice to walk through them is yours and yours alone. The Great Mind Challenge is one such door.

The possibilities that open up once you walk through this door are endless and the potential you can realize, limitless. We have taken every care in trying to ensure that the Contest and the offerings are relevant and useful to you and we hope that you will rise to the Challenge, take the Initiative and Walk Through this Door.to BRIDGE THE GAP.


Winners for TGMC 2008: K.L.N. College Of Engineering, Tamil Nadu, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida and Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai recognized as the winner of TGMC 2008. IBM also declared the KLN 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.


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. The team developed an online comprehensive crime reporting system to engage public, NGOs, police and government agencies to be more quick, proactive and responsive to fight with crime and criminals.

The Great Mind Challenge 2009 has been planned to be more extensive than previous years. The registrations for the challenge will commence in May and the challenge will conclude by December 2009. TGMC 2009 wills see a revamped website and activities on social networking websites and college campuses. The top five project teams will get the opportunity to present their project to key executives from the IBM India Software Lab. Depending on the commercial viability of the projects; IBM will help the students find sponsors for taking these projects live.

“This year the top 20 projects will be put on the internet to be used without charge by end users and IBM Business Partners. These are also made available to the government agencies, solution providers and academia for feedback, which helps further develop the solutions designed by the participating students.” Mr. Goyal added.

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