[TSG-Announce] 2009 CHPC reminder and prize announcement

[David E Mussulman]

Hello,

Please consider entering the 2009 Siebel Center Computing Habitat
Programming Competition.  Proposals are due soon for the contest in late
March.  Develop for the Siebel Center to "enhance student life" and win!

http://illinois.edu/goto/chpc09

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The 2009 prizes will be based on the following categories:

$1000 - State Farm prize - most innovative use of new technologies

$1000 - Best Computing Habitat Project - this project best incorporates 	
	into the Siebel Center Computing Habitat

$500 - Best Presentation - awarded to the group who does the best job of
	'selling' their project

$500 - Most Fun - enhance student life with an element of play and
	entertainment

$500 - Best Improvement - awarded to the group that finds existing
	problems/bugs/limitations and squashes them.

$500 - Social Networks - winners in this category best leverage Web 2.0
	social networking services, like Facebook, Flickr, Digg, etc.

$500 - Community impact - awarded to the entry that makes the biggest 
	community or world impact. Accessibility, conservation,
	public good are examples.

$500 - Judge's prize - awarded solely at the whim and discretion of the
	judges, perhaps on some criteria not covered by another prize
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Class projects, fascinating research, and SIG/EOH projects are
eligible.  Turn your hard work into cold cash.  Impress your friends,
professors, and future employers.

See http://illinois.edu/goto/chpc09 for more information.  Deadlines
are coming up soon, so get started now!

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David Mussulman						mussulma at uiuc.edu
SysAdmin, NetAdmin for the Technology Services Group	2330 Siebel Center
Department of Computer Science				office: 217.333.6231
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