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Bob Familiar is the Director of Audience Evangelism for Microsoft DPE East Region. The Audience Evangelism team works with students, faculty, professional developers and IT pros to help them learn, adopt and use the Microsoft developer platform to design and build the next generation of apps for devices. Bob has been working in the software industry for 26 years, the past 15 with Microsoft. Bob has a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and holds a patent in Object Relational Modeling.
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Howard Students showcased for Microsoft and the Whitehouse
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Four students from Howard University were invited to a meeting between Microsoft and the HBCU Whitehouse team this past week. Shamir Saddler, Kyle Simmons , Lenon Thompson, Rashad Rose of Howard University present their Imagine Cup submission with Robert...
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Classroom Innovation: Pat Yongpradit leverages XNA to teach Computer Science
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Pat Yongpradit, computer science teacher at Springbrook High School located in Montgomery County Maryland. He is innovating in the classroom by leveraging game design and development to teach computer science to high school students. In a recent...
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Windows Phone 7 Student App-a-thon!
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Use your next study break to build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes! The first 1,000 students to enter will receive an Xbox 360® game, or publish the most apps and win big!* Enter the Student App-a-thon Register with App...
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US Imagine Cup Finals Day 4–Final Presentations, Showcase and Awards
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Day 4 brings the US Imagine Cup to its conclusion. The day included final presentations from the round 2 finalists, a showcase on the Redmond Campus and the announcement of the winners at the awards ceremony. All the teams that participated were really...
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Imagine Cup Day 3–Workshops, Showcase and Round 2 Finalists
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Day 3 of Imagine Cup US Finals here in Redmond has the students attending workshops, showcasing their solutions to Microsoft executives and getting the word from Soma Somesegar on which teams advance to the final round. Lindsay Lindstrom talks to the...
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Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change!
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It is Saturday, April 9th and the students here at the Imagine Cup spent the morning preparing their presentations and then heading in front of the judges for the first round of the competition. They all had their game face on…some game faces were more...
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Imagine Cup US Finals Day 1
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The US Finals of the Imagine Cup kicked of yesterday in Redmond Washington on the Microsoft Campus. The top 22 teams from around the US were on hand to register, shop at the company store, network with each other, eat a ton of food and have some fun before...
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