Microsoft Student Partners Summary
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Microsoft Student Partners program is not a profitable one. It aims to find out and distinguish some students who are talented at academic Microsoft programs. In addition, it is an annual program focusing on integrating technology, innovation and shared experience between the academic environment and industry. Also, it aims to support students in Microsoft annual competition; ‘Imagine Cup’, Microsoft programs for developers and the academic alliance ‘MSDN AA’.
Microsoft EMEA
Microsoft Student Partners program began seven years ago in fifteen countries. It was put into action in Microsoft sector for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Microsoft EMEA, in the onset of 2006. Nowadays, there are more than 1450 partners of students in 104 countries around the world.
In Egypt, the program began in 2006. At present, it exists in the following universities:
Cairo University, Helwan University, Ain Shams University, Alexandria University, the American University in Cairo, the German University in Cairo, the High Institute of Technology and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
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Two classes were graduated including 30 partners of students, from those universities.
Moreover, from the academic year 2008-2009 Microsoft Egypt Corporation seeks to expand its programs and make them prevalent in the Egyptian universities which have not joined them yet, so that we can greatly make use of students on Egypt’s level and increase technological awareness, believing in students’ abilities to help bridge the digital gap between Egypt and the advanced countries via these programs. In this respect, Tanta University was chosen as the first national university to apply these expansions at.
Activity Fields:
Microsoft Student Partners exist inside the campus, to make presentations and symposiums related to the technology used in advanced Microsoft programs, as part of Microsoft Software for Developers of Network; the academic alliance MSDNAA. In addition, Microsoft Student Partners announce, support, take part in Microsoft international competition for students; ‘Imagine Cup’, ask students to get invitations to attend the conferences and technological events organized by Microsoft Corporation and invite students to attend Microsoft student festival that is held annually.
MSDNAA
- Holding symposiums and periodical workshops explaining one of Microsoft technologies, products or one of the technologies which students would like to know more about. In addition to, making presentations to raise students’ technological awareness.
- Establishing a technological assembly under patronage of a teaching staff member that will be in charge of disseminating Microsoft technology among students, through holding periodical symposiums for interested students, setting study timetable, holding workshops and organizing collective projects for students.
- اParticipation in encouraging, supporting and helping students who would like to join and who are registered in Microsoft competition ‘Imagine Cup’, through holding publicity work sessions about the competition, distributing booklets, sticking posters about the competition, making advertising campaign via e-mail groups and special students’ forums.
- Continuous guidance and direction for participant teams in ‘Imagine Cup’ competition.
- Seeking to connect curricula and technological development through making workshop to explain software and new technologies related to curricula, under supervision of the subject lecturer.
- Helping students willing to get license and download MSDN AA software by giving a student a form to write down his or her data; name, year, national number and e-mail. In addition to attaching a photocopy of university ID card to assure that he or she is a university student as to faculties that do not have free university e-mail. Via e-mail a student gets a special user name and password to be able to download the required programs free and legally.
- Participation in distributing free editions of Microsoft software and means to develop students’ skills in information technology and programming
- Offering a group of software, for developers, issued once every two months by Developers Department in Microsoft sector for Europe, Middle East and Africa for developing countries, that is known as MSDN Community Distribution.
- Distributing booklets and sticking ads about times of Microsoft symposiums held inside the faculty.
- Inviting and registering students willing to attend Microsoft Student Festival.
- Inviting and registering students willing to attend conferences and symposiums organized or attended by Microsoft, such as Microsoft EDC “Egyptian Developers Conference” which is held annually.
- The official means of communication between Microsoft on one hand and students and university teaching staff members on the other.
- Informing teaching staff members and the assistant staff with programs granted by Microsoft to the academic sector.
- Issuing many editions monthly of the wall magazine Microsoft Tech-Zine to raise the awareness about Microsoft sectors and giving the opportunity to all students from all specializations to be informed about them.
Projects
The projects offered by Microsoft Student Partners direct students having innovation and ambition in the technological field, especially the technology produced by Microsoft Corporation.
Moreover, these projects seek to raise students’ knowledge level and to facilitate communication among the academic environment, Microsoft Corporation and other corporations in the field of information technology i.e. Microsoft Partners.
List of Projects:
Through the MSDN AA program, any university student is allowed to obtain a licensed copy of an integrated package of software that is useful in all disciplines during their studies and after graduation. The version includes a complete free software package as a grant from the Microsoft Corporation, including: Visual Studio, Windows XP, Windows Vista Business Edition, Service Packs, Development Kit, Office Tools Kit and several server and database management software. Important and profitable software).
The program also aims to support the development of professionalism among
students in the IT sector. Once the university has joined the program, the
university will receive a free space from Microsoft to enable students to
download the software in the package through a special free account for each
student that includes a license to use the student's name and is created by the
Microsoft partner in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the
partnership agreement between Microsoft and the academic institution.
This program provides students with the following: ** Software development
tools. ** Educational resources include materials for students and faculty
covering all fields in computer science (operating systems, embedded systems,
interpreters and interpreters, protection systems, artificial intelligence and
others).
Imagine Cup is a competition that represents Microsoft's way of encouraging
young people to use their imagination, creativity and abilities to innovate in
technology and then use it to improve the world in which we live. The Microsoft
Imagine Cup was launched in 2003 in Barracina, Spain, followed by the cities of
Yokohama, Japan in 2004, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2005, Delhi in India in 2006,
Seoul in South Korea in 2007, Paris in France in 2008 and finally in Egypt in
Cairo and Alexandria. The competition targets the students of the faculties of
engineering, the computer engineering departments, the computer and information
faculties, and the computer science departments in the faculties of science in
all universities and institutes of the world to work on technical solutions in
eight disciplines (individual or collective)
Microsoft Student Partners programs
Microsoft Software for Developers of Network; the Academic Alliance Programs
Microsoft Software for Developers of Network; Society Distribution
Microsoft International Competition for Students; ‘Imagine Cup’
Microsoft Student Festival
Microsoft Corporation
About Microsoft Sector for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Microsoft EMEA
About Microsoft Egypt
Each year a new problem is created and requires the contestants to use the technology to solve these problems according to the terms and conditions of the competition for each of the eight disciplines, which are announced through the official website of the competition on the Internet http://imaginecup.com, where students want to compete their data And disciplines that wish to compete in it to enter the tours throughout the year by specialization to reach the finals at the end of the academic year in the summer. Egypt hosts the finals of the competition in 2008-2009 under the auspices of the Suzanne Mubarak Peace Movement and the Ministries of Higher Education, Communications and Information Technology.
It is entitled to give students the opportunity to participate in workshops and seminars organized by Microsoft's private partner at the University of the students periodically to enable them to learn the latest technologies of Microsoft and modern methods and trends in programming, In addition, students have the opportunity to receive accurate and up-to-date information on Microsoft's latest products and to speak with IT professionals.
Definitions:
MSPs - Microsoft Student Partners Program
Is a not-for-profit program for universities to raise awareness of technology and support technology and information technology through a network of technology-savvy students and the use of Microsoft tools and software trained by Microsoft to become Microsoft representatives at universities.
Microsoft MSDN AA “Microsoft Developer Network - Academic Alliance”
Is a program available in academic organizations, especially colleges and universities, through which students can submit an integrated software package by obtaining a license enabling them to download and use the software legally in personal, non-commercial or academic use during study and after graduation. The academic institution obtains a special copy of the package by hosting the package software with an authorized service provider, in which the student can obtain his own copy of the package or host it on the academic institution's servers.
Microsoft MSDN Community Distribution
Is a program launched by Microsoft - the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sector for developing countries that wants to embrace technological growth by issuing a bimonthly package of development programs that benefit developers, programmers and system architects from beginner to professional.
Microsoft Imagine Cup Student Competition
Is an annual competition sponsored and organized by Microsoft to encourage young people to solve the world's most difficult problems by launching the imagination and creativity of students to use technology to solve these problems and target students studying computer science and engineering and information technology. A new problem is announced every year within the framework of individual or group contests. The 2008 competition is contested by 210,000 students from 100 countries. The competition has been organized since 2003 in a different city each year around the world and the 2009 finals will be held in Egypt.
Is an annual event held in several countries around the world annually, held in Egypt for the first time in 2008 to give students the opportunity to interact directly with Microsoft and learn more about their products and programs. The event also provides an opportunity to meet Microsoft partners, regional sponsors and, of course, students from different universities.
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