No monkey business
Posted on December 16th, 2008 – 9:04 PMBy Thomas Lee
From the Minnesota High Tech Association monthly newsletter:
Help Students ‘Rise Above the Monkey’
The U of M student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery plans to hold a software design competition this spring and is asking for industry assistance. The goal of the ‘Rise Above the Monkey’ competition is to expose students to real-world software design challenges and to connect them with local businesses who are looking for new hires with the skills to design software well. The idea is that any monkey can code, but it takes someone with engineering acumen to design quality software.
ACM is looking for local corporations to submit examples of real problems that their developers are working on. Teams of up to four students will have one week to design databases, create class diagrams, make hardware/platform decisions, and mock-up interfaces. At the end of the week, each team will give a presentation of their design to a panel of industry and faculty judges. Teams will be connected to mentors from the industry that will work with them throughout the week and share their expertise.
By bringing students, faculty, and industry together, the ACM student chapter hopes to raise awareness of the need for quality design and to form a partnership that will help all three succeed in the future.
For more information contact:
Abby Riesterer
ACM Community Ambassador
Software Design Competition Committee Chair
acm.uofm.officers@gmail.com
612 626-1535 (ACM office)
612 250-9373 (Cell)
One response to "No monkey business"
Tom,
Thanks for posting this! I e-mailed Abby to get more information so we can share it with our members. Medical devices in Minnesota are very dependent on high quality software and firmware engineers.
Regards,
Frank
