www.ibm.com/developerworks/tgmc/india

The largest technology contest for engineering students in India,recognized by The Limca Book of Records, 2 years in a row!

Current Scenario…

• Students rarely get an opportunity to work on real lifeprojects with skills what the industry demands today.

• Need to improve the relevance & quality of talentpool available in India.

• Increasingly difficult for faculty to keep abreast of thelatest technologies in the industry.

• Rarely do the colleges, faculty & students getrewarded for doing real life projects using some nicheenterprise software.

• Very few students in the country have the ‘In-demandskills for this On-demand world!’

• A nation-wide software development contest• Target Audience – Engineering Students

• Steps:– Create Team & Register - Min 2 Max 4 students & 1 Faculty

mentor

– Choose a project scenario to work upon.

– Attend Awareness sessions & complete the online training

– Create the project and submit

– Be Market-ready!

– Take home – Prizes, Certificates and recognition!

The Great Mind Challenge

WHY does TGMC exist?

• Bridge the skills-gap between the university classroom and theprofessional IT market by including real-world project scenariosas the basis of the competition.

• Provide participating students an opportunity to showcasetheir software programming skills and increase theiropportunities for future employment.

• Foster a spirit of collaboration among students – create anenvironment in which students value, acknowledge andappreciate the efforts of their peers;

• Enable students to increase their confidence and enhance their“soft skills” by requiring them to verbally present theirsolutions to contest judges in a face to face session.

TGMCMetrics Yr2010 Yr2011

No.ofTeams 34070 53349

NoofColleges 1642 2214

No.ofStudentRegistration

120450

183176

No.ofFacultyRegistration

34070 24201

It’s really a great opportunity provided by TGMC. Iparticipated in 2008 and 2009…We have learned somany thing due to TGMC . TGMC workshop wasso interesting. I didn't know anything about J2EEeven more in java when I started , but there was azeal to work with TGMC.Nikhil Nishchal -Sobhasaria Engineering College, Rajasthan.

TGMC – Sneak Peek

Surpassed a record-breakingregistrations of44,000 registrations in 2008 to1,11,000 & 1,50,000registrationsin 2009 & 2010 respectively to200,000 in 2011!

The figures vouch for thereach,likeness and intensity ofseriousnesswhich is increasing every year.

Some morefeedback

fromTGMCians!

TGMC 2011 Highlights

• Contest was run online.

• Website supports – registrations, discussion forums,mentoring etc

• 200,000 registrations in 2011(as against 150K in 2010)

• Reached 2000+ colleges in India

• Active on popular social networking sites.

• Certified as the Largest Software Development contest forEngineering Students by Limca Book of Records, 2 years in arow!

• Aim to get into the Guinness book of Records.

TGMC - PROver 20 Print and Online publicationschannels covered in various Indian Languages

http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/aiinnews.html

TGMC Coffee Table Book

The Great Mind Challenge for Studentscontest has come a long way since its

http://ibm.co/tgmc2010_annualbook

inception in 2004. To commemorate our 7th

anniversary, we launched The Great MindChallenge 2010 annual book.

Besides recognizing the young stars andtheir efforts in the years gone by, the bookelucidates on the platform which has been alaunch pad for myriads of students.

Enjoy this journey called The Great MindChallenge!

TGMC Coffee Table Book 2011 – out soon!

Glimpses of 2011 winners andfelicitation

What’s new in TGMC 2012

• No registration deadline. *• Submit projects, the moment you finish working on them.• FREE webinars on various topics on IBM software and hot

topics in the IT industry.• Surprise gifts for early-bird project submission teams.• More technical resources and enablement drive by IBM to

students interested to improve their IT skills.• New project scenarios including many from the industry• Online learning courses

*Registrations close once the project submission deadline is over.

Why should a student participatein TGMC?

– Team work – because this is one of the biggest challenge IT industry facestoday. This is taken care of by working as team in TGMC.

– Self study – IT Industry demands versatility in technologies learnt, hence selfstudy is one aspect that is primary to support this demand. Students may ormay not get a opportunity to attend the workshop on IBM technologies butwould get a lot of opportunity to learn things on your own.

– Documentation – One of the big challenges that is lacking among the Indianstudents. This is taken care of by asking students to submit various documentson different timelines.

– Following timelines – Another major requirement of the IT industry. This istaken care off by asking students to submit different aspects of project ontime.

– Adoption of best practices in IT industry – Lack of industrial exposure and ITbest practices is one of the point which IT industry

– Official Projects: TGMC projects can be submitted in fulfillment of theUniversity requirement of a mini-project in pre-final or as a major-project forthe final year

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Eligibility Criteria

• Open to

– Faculty & Students

– Any under/post-graduate Engineering and Master ofComputer Application course students

– Not just the information science disciplines

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All registrations happen online at TGMC Website hosted onMydeveloperWorks community .Registration Process for TGMC 2012– Fill the registration form on TGMC 2012– www.ibm.com/developerworks/tgmc/india

Students with a minimum team size of 2 or maximum size of 4 will have toregisterWhile registering themselves as a team one of their faculty member mustbe included as a faculty mentor.Students can participate only in one team; whereas faculty can guidemore than one team.Students & Faculty who have registered last year have to register again.Choose a project scenario from the list or they can come up with theirown

Timeline and Milestones

• TGMC 2012 Registrations – Now Open!

• SRS Submissions – Please check timelines page on TGMC website for updates on this

soon.

• Project Submissions -- Please check timelines page on TGMC website for updates on

this soon. We request that you adhere to the following deadlines to avoid disqualification. Please allowtime required to mail/courier CDs or paperwork.

• Face-to-Face Evaluations - Please check timelines page on TGMC website for

updates on this soon.

• Final Results - Please check timelines page on TGMC website for updates on this soon.

First RoundResults

Sample Stages…

Registrations

SRS Submissions andmentoring

eLearning / eTraining / eMentoring through Websites, satellite, discussion forums, eMails

etc

Project Submission

Project Synopsis

• Teams select Project Scenarios fromthe list that IBM provides.

• Students can also choose to workon their own Project Scenarios

• Teams need to use IBM software tobuild these projects.

• The teams need to submit a projectsynopsis which IBM will evaluate,mentor and give feed back for theteams to start working on theproject.

• IBM will also provide free softwareand training (online) for the same toenable students to work on theprojects using this software.

• Online training module available.

Sample Project Scenarios:• Corporate Employee Welfare

System• Employee Expense management

System• Law & Order Automation• Online picture manager• Smart Inventory Management• SystemTender management system• Smart Traffic management system• Food Safety Portal

What makes for a good submission

• Should use ATLEAST ONE IBM software to build the project.

Development should be on JAVA platformShould make use of OPEN SOURCE/IBM Tools

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A copy of the project scenarioA copy of the synopsis that was submitted beforeLatest version of the Project SynopsisA short presentation strictly less than 10 slides• About the team• About the tools that were used• Understanding of the Project Scenario / Problem Statement• About the application that that was created• The Key Functionalities/Innovative Features, if any, in the application• Highlight if you have used or proposed SOA, XML, Tivoli etc in the complete

solution of your application; if you have not used Tivoli you can highlight where itfits during the implementation

• End user feedback if available (From someone who is not part of the applicationdevelopment team or related to the domain for which the application is created)

Proper End-user Help Manual on how to use your application/solutionThe installation script text file, in which you must specify the step by step process fordeploying/running your application in a new machine

Resources for HELP!

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Prizes & Recognition

• Interview by IBM will be offered to winners of TGMC 2012• Prize Categories:

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Winner

1st Runner up; 2nd Runner up

Top 15 winning teams

TGMC Faculty mentor award

All-Girls teams within the Top 50 rank get special recognition!

Top performing colleges (colleges that have been active with TGMCthroughout the various phases of the contest)

• Prizes ranges from Laptops, Ipads iPod, iTouch, Digital Cameras,Watches, etc.

• All teams that submit a valid project get Participation Certificate.( Please refer to the website for details on what is a ‘valid project’)

Prizes may or may not remain same. Subject to availability & IBMs discretion.

Tools to be used in a TGMC Project

Recommended tools are…..

1. IBM Toolsa. DB2b. Rational Application Developer (RAD)c. Rational Software Architect (RSA)/Rational Rosed. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)e. Tivoli Directory Server (TDS)f. Lotus Dominog. WebSphere Application Server (WAS)h. Rational Team Concert (RTC)

2. OPEN SOURCE Toolsa. Eclipseb. WASCE/Apache Geronimoc. Apache Tomcatd. Apache Derby

How to learn to use IBM tools?

• Students have to learn the relevant IBM and Open Source

technologies by

– Working with eMentors through ‘Discussion Forums’

available in the TGMC WebSite

– Utilize online resources (AI and dW) and materials provided

in DVDs. ASK for your kit!

– Take help from TGMC faculty guides/mentors in your

college.

– Online training module available.

IBM software to use Othersoftware to

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Softwarenot to use

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ApplicationServer

Rational ApplicationDeveloper (RAD),Rational SoftwareArchitecture (RSA).

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Application DeveloperServer,WebSphereApplication forCommunity Edition,WebSphereApplication Serverv8.5 Liberty

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DB2 Express-CEdition,DB2 Express Edition,DB2 Enterprise Editionand Cloudscape

ApacheDerby

AnyNon-IBMDatabases

ForDesigning

Use only Rational Software Architect / RationalROSE

Free Software

For TGMC 2012 Project – Important Guidelines

Felicitation Ceremony

The Contest concludes on a highnote with a grand FelicitationCeremony that honours thewinners

Log in and Register today& be part of India’s Largest Technology contest!

REGISTER HEREwww.ibm.com/developerworks/tgmc/india

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