Justin Creasy is blogging about the Microsoft Windows Embedded Student Challenge ( WESC 2005 ) event going on this week-end in Redmond. In this installment he talks about Bill Gates visiting the teams who have come from all over the world. Justin was...

Channel 9 is running a contest with a free trip to PDC05. Details here . Winners will come from bloggers and from people who enter their Shareware Coding Contest . - Alfred Thompson

We're announcing the first group of Microsoft Student Ambassadors for US universities next school year. A full list is below - each individual who was nominated will get an email directly by the end of today with more details. For those not selected...

This is fairly cool - the first Battlebot based on .NET was a guest of honor at TechEd 2005.

I know, we're running a day behind our goal of annoucning these on June 7. But we're almost there - we will post the first group of 2005-2006 Microsoft Student Ambassadors for the United States this afternoon (Pacific time) on this blog. Everyone who...

Just got this from Ivan Joseph, who leads this very cool effort: The 2005 finalists have been announced for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE ! The top 30 teams from all over the world will be in Redmond June 17-18th, 2005 to compete for...

Just saw this from Shervin's blog - Florida .NET user group is hosting some faculty and students from DeVry University at their June 14th meeting in Miramar, to talk about SPOT: MS SPOT Watch Technology by Ed Hill (DeVry University Faculty...

Kevin Schofield posts about Microsoft Research's New Faculty Fellowships Awards . About the program: "...the MSR fellowship award is meant to identify five of the most promising junior faculty working in computer science, andgive them some "breathing...

If you're a student, I highly recommend finding out about the local .NET user group near your school or hometown. Chances are they are a member of INETA , which is a fantastic group of volunteers from around the world dedicated to helping .NET user...

Team ECESIS from Virginia Commonwealth, who won the US Software Design Invitational in Imagine Cup, are highlighted up on the MSDN Tablet PC Developer Center! They are also starting up a blog about their experiences on the run up to Japan. They...

Over at theSpoke, Brian Scarbeau is blogging about TechEd . Sounds like he was impressed with the opening keynote. - Alfred Thompson

Student devs, check out the competition around OneNote PowerToy s. (link via Scoble )