Know more about TGMC

The largest technology contest for engineering students in India,
recognized by The Limca Book of Records, 2 years in a row!
www.ibm.com/developerworks/tgmc/india
Current Scenario…
• Students rarely get an opportunity to work on real life
projects with skills what the industry demands today.
• Need to improve the relevance & quality of talent
pool available in India.
• Increasingly difficult for faculty to keep abreast of the
latest technologies in the industry.
• Rarely do the colleges, faculty & students get
rewarded for doing real life projects using some niche
enterprise software.
• Very few students in the country have the ‘In-demand
skills for this On-demand world!’
The Great Mind Challenge
• 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!
WHY does TGMC exist?
• Bridge the skills-gap between the university classroom and the
professional IT market by including real-world project scenarios
as the basis of the competition.
• Provide participating students an opportunity to showcase
their software programming skills and increase their
opportunities for future employment.
• Foster a spirit of collaboration among students – create an
environment in which students value, acknowledge and
appreciate the efforts of their peers;
• Enable students to increase their confidence and enhance their
“soft skills” by requiring them to verbally present their
solutions to contest judges in a face to face session.
TGMC – Sneak Peek
TGMCMetrics
Yr2010 Yr2011
No.ofTeams
34070
53349
NoofColleges
1642
2214
No.ofStudent
Registration
12045
0
183176
No.ofFaculty
Registration
34070
24201
It’s really a great opportunity provided by TGMC. I
participated in 2008 and 2009…We have learned so
many thing due to TGMC . TGMC workshop was
so interesting. I didn't know anything about J2EE
even more in java when I started , but there was a
zeal to work with TGMC.
Nikhil Nishchal Sobhasaria Engineering College, Rajasthan.
Surpassed a record-breaking
registrations of
44,000 registrations in 2008 to
1,11,000 & 1,50,000
registrations
in 2009 & 2010 respectively to
200,000 in 2011!
The figures vouch for the
reach,
likeness and intensity of
seriousness
which is increasing every year.
Some more
feedback
from
TGMCians!
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 for
Engineering Students by Limca Book of Records, 2 years in a
row!
• Aim to get into the Guinness book of Records.
TGMC - PR
Over 20 Print and Online publications
channels covered in various Indian Languages
http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/aiinnews.html
TGMC Coffee Table Book
The Great Mind Challenge for Students
contest has come a long way since its
http://ibm.co/tgmc2010_annualbook
inception in 2004. To commemorate our 7th
anniversary, we launched The Great Mind
Challenge 2010 annual book.
Besides recognizing the young stars and
their efforts in the years gone by, the book
elucidates on the platform which has been a
launch pad for myriads of students.
Enjoy this journey called The Great Mind
Challenge!
TGMC Coffee Table Book 2011 – out soon!
Glimpses of 2011 winners and
felicitation
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 participate
in TGMC?
– Team work – because this is one of the biggest challenge IT industry faces
today. This is taken care of by working as team in TGMC.
– Self study – IT Industry demands versatility in technologies learnt, hence self
study is one aspect that is primary to support this demand. Students may or
may not get a opportunity to attend the workshop on IBM technologies but
would get a lot of opportunity to learn things on your own.
– Documentation – One of the big challenges that is lacking among the Indian
students. This is taken care of by asking students to submit various documents
on different timelines.
– Following timelines – Another major requirement of the IT industry. This is
taken care off by asking students to submit different aspects of project on
time.
– Adoption of best practices in IT industry – Lack of industrial exposure and IT
best practices is one of the point which IT industry
– Official Projects: TGMC projects can be submitted in fulfillment of the
University requirement of a mini-project in pre-final or as a major-project for
the final year
How the contest works
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Eligibility
Registration
Timelines
Project Synopsis
Project Submission
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Resources
Winning Categories
Communication
Website
Felicitation Ceremony
Eligibility Criteria
• Open to
– Faculty & Students
– Any under/post-graduate Engineering and Master of
Computer Application course students
– Not just the information science disciplines
Registration 2012
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All registrations happen online at TGMC Website hosted on
MydeveloperWorks 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 to
register
While registering themselves as a team one of their faculty member must
be included as a faculty mentor.
Students can participate only in one team; whereas faculty can guide
more 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 their
own
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 allow
time 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.
Sample Stages…
Registrations
SRS Submissions and
mentoring
eLearning / eTraining / eMentoring through Websites, satellite, discussion forums, eMails
etc
Project Submission
First Round
Results
Project Synopsis
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Teams select Project Scenarios from
the list that IBM provides.
Students can also choose to work
on their own Project Scenarios
Teams need to use IBM software to
build these projects.
The teams need to submit a project
synopsis which IBM will evaluate,
mentor and give feed back for the
teams to start working on the
project.
IBM will also provide free software
and training (online) for the same to
enable students to work on the
projects using this software.
Online training module available.
Sample Project Scenarios:
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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
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Should use ATLEAST ONE IBM software to build the project.
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Development should be on JAVA platform
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Should make use of OPEN SOURCE/IBM Tools
Should include
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A copy of the project scenario
A copy of the synopsis that was submitted before
Latest version of the Project Synopsis
A 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 it
fits during the implementation
• End user feedback if available (From someone who is not part of the application
development team or related to the domain for which the application is created)
Proper End-user Help Manual on how to use your application/solution
The installation script text file, in which you must specify the step by step process for
deploying/running your application in a new machine
Resources for HELP!
Through the project building phase, teams have access to the following from IBM
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Website for reference
Free Software
E-books
Training Material
Important online tutorials
Discussion forums
E-mentors
Resources Section
FAQs
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 TGMC
throughout 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 Tools
a. DB2
b. Rational Application Developer (RAD)
c. Rational Software Architect (RSA)/Rational Rose
d. Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
e. Tivoli Directory Server (TDS)
f. Lotus Domino
g. WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
h. Rational Team Concert (RTC)
2. OPEN SOURCE Tools
a. Eclipse
b. WASCE/Apache Geronimo
c. Apache Tomcat
d. 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.
Free Software
For TGMC 2012 Project – Important Guidelines
IBM software to use
Other
software to
use
Software
not to use
For Coding
Rational Application
Developer (RAD),
Rational Software
Architecture (RSA).
Eclipse and
Edit Plus
Any
commercial
version and
Java IDE’s
For
Application
Server
WebSphere
Application Developer
Server,WebSphere
Application for
Community Edition,
WebSphere
Application Server
v8.5 Liberty
DB2 Express-C
Edition,
DB2 Express Edition,
DB2 Enterprise Edition
and Cloudscape
Apache
Tomcat,
Apache
Geronimo
Any
Non-IBM
Servers
Apache
Derby
Any
Non-IBM
Databases
For
Database
For
Designing
Use only Rational Software Architect / Rational
ROSE
Felicitation Ceremony
The Contest concludes on a high
note with a grand Felicitation
Ceremony that honours the
winners
Log in and Register today
& be part of India’s Largest Technology contest!
REGISTER HERE
www.ibm.com/developerworks/tgmc/india
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