Discover your inner-geek: All the latest student developer news, brought to you by Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/atom.xmlCommunity Server2005-05-26T15:39:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/07/21/StevenSblog.aspx2005-07-21T17:27:00Z2005-07-21T17:27:00Z<P><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/default.mspx">Steven Sinofsky</A>, a senior vice president at Microsoft in the Office group, has <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/techtalk/">a blog</A>. In his <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/techtalk/archive/2005/07/19/440647.aspx">latest entry</A> he talks about a party the Office group throws for their summer interns. I think it is interesting that Microsoft VPs believe that interns are important enough to show up at parties to talk to them. OK maybe it is that the parties are fun but still ...</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial>In actual fact I have found that the VPs I have wanted to contact have all been very <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">approachable</SPAN>. That's one of the things that makes Microsoft a great company to work for.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial>- <EM><A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/AlfredTwo/MyBlog.aspx">Alfred </A>(Microsoft)</EM></FONT></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=441335" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/07/08/atthespoke.aspx2005-07-08T19:42:00Z2005-07-08T19:42:00Z<P>Dave is taking a new job working for the Xbox division. <A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/davemi_ms/MyBlog.aspx">He's started to blog</A> about what that work is all about. It looks like he's in for some fun time and will have a lot of interesting things to talk about in the coming weeks and months. If you are at all interested in game programming you may want to watch his blog.</P> <P>Meanwhile, <A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/morriss/MyBlog.aspx">Morris Sim</A> is introducing a lot of information about the upcoming Imagine Cup finals in Japan. He's got information and links to videos. Even if you are not going to Japan you will want to check these out. Who knows, it may help motivate you to enter next year's event.</P> <P>Speaking of video, Channel 9 has a new <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=85529">video interview with <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Microsoft </SPAN>CEO Steve Ballmer</A>.</P> <P>- <EM><A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/alfredtwo/MyBlog.aspx">Alfred Thompson</A> (Microsoft)</EM></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436877" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/17/wesc2005.aspx2005-06-17T20:58:00Z2005-06-17T20:58:00Z<P>Justin Creasy is blogging about the Microsoft Windows&nbsp;Embedded Student Challenge (<A href="http://www.windowschallenge.com/">WESC 2005</A>)&nbsp;event going on this week-end in Redmond. In <A href="http://www.immergetech.com/blog/2005/6/17/seattle-bill-gates-and-espresso-cheesecake.html">this installment</A> he talks about Bill Gates visiting the teams who have come from all over the world. Justin was part of the team that won this event last year. Since then he and his team have graduated and started their own company.</P> <P>- <EM><A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/AlfredTwo/MyBlog.aspx">Alfred Thompson</A> (Microsoft)</EM></P> <P>Justin is also an example of the sort of people who, while in college, blog at <A href="http://www.thespoke.net">theSpoke</A>.</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=430222" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/13/PDC05contest.aspx2005-06-13T22:28:00Z2005-06-13T22:28:00Z<P><A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/">Channel 9</A> is running a contest with a free trip to PDC05. <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74816">Details here</A>. Winners will come from bloggers and from people who enter their <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74805">Shareware Coding Contest</A>. </P> <P>- <EM><A href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/act2">Alfred Thompson</A></EM></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=428626" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426914.aspx2005-06-08T23:39:00Z2005-06-08T23:39:00ZWe're announcing the first group of <a href="http://www.studentambassador.net">Microsoft Student Ambassadors </a>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 in this round, we will let you know if you are being considered for the next round.<br> <br> The <span>Lead Student Ambassadors</span>, a subset of the group who will be actively involved in helping us manage, refine, and build the program next year, are listed at the bottom of this mail.<br> <br> Remember the MSA program for next academic year starts off in September - those selected will have opportunities for technical training during the summer so you can start off the year knowing everything you need to know about Visual Studio, SQL Server, .NET, and the rest. Just keep an eye out for the mail with follow on steps!<br> <br> <span>To everyone who was nominated, selected or not, we'd like to thank you for your interest in the program.</span> <br> <br> <span>To anyone still interested in becoming a US Student Ambassador, there are more opportunities to become one!</span> We will post news on this blog about how to get nominated for the <span>next round</span>, which will take place over the summer with selectees announced in August. Keep in mind we will consider up to TWO MSA's on many campuses, so if you already see a name next to your school, there may still be an opportunity to get involved. We are looking for skilled students in a wide range of technical majors, from CS and CE through MIS and IT (even Business, if you've got some great coding skills). You just need a passion for developer technology and for sharing it with others!<br> <br> The <a href="http://www.studentambassador.net">MSA Web site</a> will be updated with this shortly, and for next year we're looking at some great changes so everyone interested in the program (alumni, friends, whatever) can get involved and see what's going on. <br> <br> On with the list!<br> <br> <span>2005-2006 Microsoft Student Ambassasdors (Those selected to date)</span><br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td>Dave</td> <td>Copeland</td> <td>Baker College of Flint</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Micheal</td> <td>Pettibone</td> <td>Baylor University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Michael</td> <td>Schuler</td> <td>Boston College</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Douglas</td> <td>Koester</td> <td>Bowling Green State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kurt</td> <td>Kirkham</td> <td>Brigham Young University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ryan</td> <td>Farmer</td> <td>California Institute of Technology</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Peter<span>&nbsp;</span></td> <td>McRae</td> <td>CalPoly - SLO</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Steven</td> <td>Luu</td> <td>CalPoly - Pomona</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Robert</td> <td>Strazzarino</td> <td>California State University-Chico</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Michael<span>&nbsp;</span></td> <td>Galloway</td> <td>California State University-Fresno</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Peter</td> <td>Fortuna</td> <td>California State University-Fresno</td> </tr> <tr> <td>James</td> <td>Cook</td> <td>California State University-Long Beach</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Andrew</td> <td>Weng</td> <td>California State University-Los Angeles</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Emil</td> <td>Mesropian</td> <td>California State University-Los Angeles</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brent</td> <td>Lamb</td> <td>California State University-Montrey Bay</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Karapet</td> <td>Aslanyan</td> <td>California State University-Northridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris</td> <td>Balassanian</td> <td>California State University-Northridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Robert</td> <td>Klayman</td> <td>Case Western Reserve University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Quinn</td> <td>Thomas</td> <td>Drexel University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Angel</td> <td>Gonzalez</td> <td>East Carolina University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jeffrey</td> <td>Arrington</td> <td>East Tennessee State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nathan</td> <td>Neitzke</td> <td>Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nikolay</td> <td>Semov</td> <td>Fairleigh Dickinson University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Inga</td> <td>Bemman</td> <td>Florida Atlantic University-Davie</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Michael</td> <td>Seeber</td> <td>Grand Valley State University-Allendale</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Matt</td> <td>Propst</td> <td>Grand Valley State University-Allendale</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Paul</td> <td>Onakoya</td> <td>Howard University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Matt</td> <td>Bell</td> <td>Illinois State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Samuel</td> <td>Puckhaber</td> <td>Illinois State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pamela</td> <td>Chadsey</td> <td>Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Adam</td> <td>Patridge</td> <td>Iowa State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ben</td> <td>Knear</td> <td>James Madison University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brian</td> <td>Reed</td> <td>Marquette University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Melissa</td> <td>Stover</td> <td>Marshall University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Anthony</td> <td>Pappas</td> <td>Miami University-Oxford</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Henry</td> <td>Balanon</td> <td>Michigan State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jeramey</td> <td>Jannene</td> <td>Milwaukee School of Engineering</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Matthew</td> <td>Newman</td> <td>Minnesota State University-Mankato</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Anthony</td> <td>Anzalone</td> <td>New York Institute of Technology</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Daniel</td> <td>Lozovatsky</td> <td>Northeastern University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris</td> <td>Lambert</td> <td>Northeastern University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Anthony</td> <td>Nedolast</td> <td>Ohio State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Scott</td> <td>Molloy</td> <td>Oregon State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kenneth</td> <td>Mann</td> <td>Pace University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Andrew</td> <td>Chernauskas</td> <td>Pennsylvania State University-Behrend College</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Johan</td> <td>Johansson</td> <td>San Jose State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Agnes</td> <td>Lui</td> <td>San Jose State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brad</td> <td>Nunnally</td> <td>Southern Illinois University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gregor</td> <td>Hochmuth</td> <td>Stanford University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shant</td> <td>Stepanian</td> <td>Stevens Institute of Technology</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Avery</td> <td>Zycherman</td> <td>Suny at Binghamton</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ryan</td> <td>Hoffman</td> <td>Suny at Stony Brook</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Richie</td> <td>von Rauchhaupt</td> <td>Suny at Stony Brook</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Stephen</td> <td>Naimoli</td> <td>Suny Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nathan</td> <td>Robinson</td> <td>Texas A&amp;M University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Craig</td> <td>Beall</td> <td>The College of New Jersey</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Faheem<span>&nbsp;</span></td> <td>Ibrahim</td> <td>University of Arkansas-Fayetteville</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kunal</td> <td>Kundaje</td> <td>University of California Los Angeles</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Guillory</td> <td>Chris</td> <td>University of California Los Angeles</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jeff</td> <td>Lee</td> <td>University of California-San Diego</td> </tr> <tr> <td>David</td> <td>Genetti</td> <td>University of Denver</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kelly</td> <td>Homnick</td> <td>University of Florida</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Thuy</td> <td>Tran</td> <td>University of Houston</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darren</td> <td>Smith</td> <td>University of Houston</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Frank</td> <td>Mitchell</td> <td>University of Idaho</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cole</td> <td>Grolmus</td> <td>University of Iowa</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brandon</td> <td>Barker</td> <td>University of Kentucky</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Vishal</td> <td>Mody</td> <td>University of Missouri-Kansas City</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Joseph</td> <td>Scheinberg</td> <td>University of North Texas</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kyle</td> <td>Abbott</td> <td>University of Oklahoma</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ravi</td> <td>Chugh</td> <td>University of Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Paul</td> <td>Sagona</td> <td>University of South Carolina</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nikita</td> <td>Polyakov</td> <td>University of South Florida</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Justin</td> <td>Morris</td> <td>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Andy</td> <td>Vanosdale</td> <td>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Eric</td> <td>Jensen</td> <td>University of Utah</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Meng</td> <td>Tan</td> <td>University of Virginia</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brian</td> <td>Ma</td> <td>University of Washington-Seattle</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bret</td> <td>Holstein</td> <td>University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Colin</td> <td>McCambridge</td> <td>University of Wisconsin-Madison</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Brendan</td> <td>Weitzman</td> <td>Washington State University-Pullman</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jake</td> <td>Burkey</td> <td>Washington State University-Pullman</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mohammad</td> <td>Akbar</td> <td>Washington University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nick</td> <td>Sinclair</td> <td>Western Michigan University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chirjeev (CJ)</td> <td>Bedi</td> <td>Western Michigan University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shauntelle</td> <td>Davis</td> <td>Xavier University</td> </tr> </table> <br> <span>And the Lead Student Ambassadors for next year:</span><br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td>Peter</td> <td>Fattore</td> <td>Bradley University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Michael</td> <td>Olivero</td> <td>Florida International University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phillip</td> <td>Katzman</td> <td>Hawaii Pacific University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>David</td> <td>Smith</td> <td>Michigan State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hiva</td> <td>Javaher</td> <td>New Mexico State University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Xiao</td> <td>Wang</td> <td>Stanford University</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jeff</td> <td>Chen</td> <td>University of California-Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kenny</td> <td>Weiss</td> <td>University of Maryland</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tony</td> <td>Valenti</td> <td>University of Nebraska at Omaha</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mahan</td> <td>Hajianpour</td> <td>University of Southern California</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Andy</td> <td>Vanosdale</td> <td>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amanda</td> <td>Jensen</td> <td>University of Texas</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Garrett</td> <td>Wu</td> <td>University of Washington-Seattle</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kevin</td> <td>Reck</td> <td>University of Wisconsin-Madison</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris</td> <td>Stewart</td> <td>Virginia Commonwealth University</td> </tr> </table> <br> -Kevin, Tracy, and the crew on the US Academic Developer team at Microsoft<br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426914" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426867.aspx2005-06-08T22:27:00Z2005-06-08T22:27:00ZThis is fairly cool - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/jun05/06-07BattleBot.mspx">the first Battlebot based on .NET was a guest of honor at TechEd 2005.</a><br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426867" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426814.aspx2005-06-08T20:53:00Z2005-06-08T20:53:00ZI 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 <a href="http://www.studentambassador.net">2005-2006 Microsoft Student Ambassadors</a> for the United States this afternoon (Pacific time) on this blog. Everyone who applied will also receive a direct email.<br> <br> After I saw <a href="http://apache.techgv.com/%7Epropstm/?p=3">Matt's post asking where the results were</a>, I realized I needed to put up an update!<br> <br> -Kevin<br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426814" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426799.aspx2005-06-08T20:22:00Z2005-06-08T20:22:00ZJust got this from Ivan Joseph, who leads this very cool effort:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.windowschallenge.com/Finalists.html">The 2005 finalists have been announced for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE</a>! The top 30 teams from all over the world will be in Redmond June 17-18th, 2005 to compete for top honors. Assuming my new baby allows me time out of the house :) I'll have to swing by and check out the teams.<br> <br> You can read <a href="http://www.windowschallenge.com/about_contest.html">more about the competition here</a>. <br> <br> Note this is separate from Imagine Cup - we just love running competitions for students, so you'll see LOTS of them going on at any given time.<br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426799" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426797.aspx2005-06-08T20:15:00Z2005-06-08T20:15:00ZJust saw this from <a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/shervin/">Shervin's blog</a> - Florida .NET user group is hosting some faculty and students from DeVry University at their June 14th meeting in Miramar, to talk about SPOT:<br> <br> <blockquote><b>MS SPOT Watch Technology by Ed Hill (DeVry University Faculty) and Students</b> </blockquote> <blockquote>An overview of Smart Personal Objects Technology, Microsoft's latest (and smallest) .NET platform. We'll look at the devices and platform, see what's coming, and discuss development on the TinyCLR. We'll also plan to take a look at 3rd party .NET tools.<br> <br> </blockquote> If you're in the area and want to attend, you can RSVP at: <a href="http://www.fladotnet.com/reg.aspx?EventID=170">http://www.fladotnet.com/reg.aspx?EventID=170 </a><br> <br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426797" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426788.aspx2005-06-08T20:10:00Z2005-06-08T20:10:00Z<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0133184/2005/05/25.html#a311">Kevin Schofield posts</a> about Microsoft Research's <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff/">New Faculty Fellowships Awards</a>. About the program:<br> <br> <div><span>"...the MSR&nbsp;fellowship award is meant to identify five of the most promising junior faculty working in computer science, andgive them some "breathing room" over the next two years to get well established, take some risks,&nbsp;and make some serious progress on their research. It's $100,000 a year for two years."</span><br> </div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426788" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426786.aspx2005-06-08T20:07:00Z2005-06-08T20:07:00ZIf 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 <a href="http://www.ineta.org">INETA</a>, which is a fantastic group of volunteers from around the world dedicated to helping .NET user groups become more successful and reach out to more aspiring and professional developers. <br> <br> For a look into the types of activities they are involved in,<a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/dnoderer/archive/2005/05/27/40784.aspx"> take a peek at the May newsletter</a>, which just went online.<br> <br> -Kevin<br> <br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426786" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/08/426784.aspx2005-06-08T20:05:00Z2005-06-08T20:05:00Z<p>Team ECESIS from Virginia Commonwealth, who won the US Software Design Invitational in Imagine Cup, are highlighted up on the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/tabletpc/default.aspx">MSDN Tablet PC Developer Center!</a>&nbsp;They are also starting up a <a href="http://www.ecesis.net/blogs/">blog about their experiences on the run up to Japan.</a>&nbsp;They had a great article written up about them <a href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&amp;c=MGArticle&amp;cid=1031782953167&amp;path=%21business&amp;s=1045855934855">in their local paper </a>too (and I even like my quote).<br> </p> <p><br> Last and certainly not least,<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=73993#73993"> the Channel 9 video of some of the competitors is finally up!</a><br> </p> <p>-Kevin</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426784" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/06/TechEdBrianS.aspx2005-06-06T22:49:00Z2005-06-06T22:49:00Z<P>Over at theSpoke, Brian Scarbeau is <A href="http://www.thespoke.net/BlogReader/SingleEntry.aspx?ID=97294">blogging about TechEd</A>. Sounds like he was impressed with the opening keynote.</P> <P>- <A href="http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/AlfredTwo/MyBlog.aspx">Alfred Thompson</A></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=425756" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/06/03/424910.aspx2005-06-03T22:15:00Z2005-06-03T22:15:00ZStudent devs, check out <a href="http://www.onenotepowertoycontest.com/home.aspx">the competition around OneNote PowerToy</a>s.<br> <br> (link via <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/31.html#a10257">Scoble</a>)<br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=424910" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msdnstudentflash/archive/2005/05/26/422267.aspx2005-05-27T00:39:00Z2005-05-27T00:39:00ZJust by downloading Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Beta 2, you will get a shot at a trip to New Zealand and an assignment to help the New Zealand Snowboard Training Group bring an edge to their new Web site! Three students will win this sweet prize package to the land o' Lord of the Rings.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.experience.com/alumnus/promo_mssb_start0;jsessionid=489891117130714553">Follow this link for all the good details.</a><br> <br> Only US students are eligible (wishing I were one, right about now!).<br> <br> Good luck!<br><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=422267" width="1" height="1">kevinbrihttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/kevinbri.aspx