IBM's 2008 Master the Mainframe Contest is now accepting registrations. This contest is open to all students (including high school students) across the United States and Canada. [If you are outside the U.S. and Canada, you may be able to join, but unfortunately IBM cannot award prizes to you. Blame the legal profession and governments, please.] No prior mainframe experience is necessary.
Here's the Web site for more details and to sign up: http://www.ibm.com/university/contest Prizes? Yes, this year's extra-fabulous prizes include: * Exclusive and ultra-fashionable "Master the Mainframe" t-shirts * $100 pre-paid debit cards, backed by the full faith and credit of the debit card company * MSI Wind sub-notebook computers running Linux * Expense-paid trips to IBM's System z research and development center in exciting (yes, really) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A. In addition, many contest participants, particularly the more energetic and enthusiastic ones, often receive employment offers from the world's finest companies and governments. (If you are a potential employer, there's a Web link for you at the Contest page.) No promises, but let's just say joining the contest doesn't hurt. The contest begins October 1, 2008, so please register right away so you can get a fast start. You can take until December 29, 2008, to try to complete all three parts of the contest. The three parts feature hands-on exercises working with a real System z mainframe, just like the one (or more than one) that so many businesses and governments rely on. Each fun exercise gets progressively more difficult. But if you master the mainframe, perhaps you will join a few other talented students on a trip to Poughkeepsie -- and possible job offers. So if you or your colleagues know any students, or you are one, then please spread the word and sign up for the 2008 Master the Mainframe Contest today. Good luck! - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
