Mohanad Mohamad: All what you need to be the winner of Imagine cup Australia 2012

Hello guys,

You all have heard about Imagine cup the contest organized by Microsoft every year for the students Software developers, so that they find IT solutions that would help solving the world’s toughest problems.

This year Imagine Cup finals will be in Australia, for sure everyone will fight for a place there to be part of this big event.

It is always your task to find the idea that will help solving one of the world’s toughest problems, but after you find the idea, you suffer sometimes that you don’t have the enough knowledge about everything.

So what do Microsoft offers you as a student to help you with this??

Microsoft offers you lots and lots of solutions to enhance you knowledge and help you to develop your dream application, all what you need is to be a student and you will have access to everything.

So what if you need to develop a website in a fast and easy way for your solution?

Microsoft offers you the Web App Gallery that helps you create Websites the easiest way.

So what about the Phone applications?

Microsoft offers you the Windows Phone SDK that will help you to develop and test Phone applications without the need of having the hone itself, and you will be able to control all the sensors like the GPS and accelerometer.

What about Cloud applications?

You can download the Azure SDK so you can develop you Cloud application based on the Windows Azure platform, and if you want to go far with the Cloud so you can have the access to IT Skills for the Cloud and now all you need to set the sky as the limit for your career in a cloud IT environment.

Also you can ask your MSP for your free MSDNAA Account that you will use to download for free each and every Microsoft Product except Microsoft Office as you can use you free Office web app using your Live ID.

So, now you have the access to the development tools that you will use to develop your application, what about the courses that you need that will help you to enhance your knowledge?

Well you do have access to the Microsoft Virtual academy that offers you free e-courses on Virtualization and Management
also you have access to TechNet Wiki that will allow you to access collective knowledge from Microsoft Experts and your peers
and if you want to use new technologies that are still not in the market you can access TechNet Downloads that will allow you to download free trials and betas of the latest Microsoft Software

Now all what you need is to log on to www.Imaginecup.com and register your self and your team for the competition you fit in the most, you will find lots of different categories like :

I'll be more than happy to receive your Questions at any time here or through my SM accounts