Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Intel launches Intel India embedded challenge contest 2011

INDIA: Intel India Pvt. Ltd., proudly presents the second edition of the ‘Intel India Embedded Challenge Contest’ a contest for students, interested individuals and entrepreneurs from all over India.

This contest has been put forward to inspire the vast technically savvy community in India to architect, design and develop novel embedded applications in areas such as – consumer electronics, digital security surveillance, medical, storage and others.

The Intel India Embedded Challenge 2011 has two main categories-

Embedded Geeks Category: Involves development of a prototype using Intel Atom Processor. Short-listed participants in this category will be given Intel Atom Kit and mentoring support for prototyping their innovation.

Embedded Solutions for Social Causes Category: Involves making use of existing technologies to show service/usage models in wide range of application or service areas. This category is open to non-engineering segments also.

The contest details are available at www.intel.com/education/in. The shortlisted finalists of Embedded Geeks category will get a hardware platform based on Intel Atom free of cost by Intel. They can then continue to work on their prototype for the final contest. Intel India will also offer any guidance and help by assigning mentors for the projects.

In Embedded Solutions for Social Causes category, the finalists will showcase successful usage/service models based on use of existing technology.

Important dates
Phase 1: Deadline for Submission of abstract: January 10, 2011
Results of Phase 1: January 30, 2011
Phase 2 : Deadline for Submission of final abstracts by short listed teams: February 28, 2011
Results of Phase 2 - Selected teams will be short listed for the finals: March 20, 2011
Finalists to receive the application reference designs kits: April 1st week, 2011
Finals – Presentations to Jury and Award Ceremony: August 2011

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