Microsoft occasionally has interesting contests and competitions on campus to keep us motivated and to come up with reasons to give out T-shirts, Pizza, and prizes.
Right now, the currently ongoing contest is called Build 24. It began yesterday at high noon and will go on till noon today.
During this contest, we have to come up with as many crazy whacky ideas, concepts, prototypes, demos, etc. that we can. There’s a lot of teams participating, and loads of action going on. The manager sitting in the cabin opposite mine is working hard as I and my partner take a break. I’m watching a movie while he’s taking a nap.
I’ll post how it goes here. Whatever the case, it’s damn exciting and exhiliarating. The judges panel is made up of elite people – Srini being amongst them.
I have quite a few whacky ideas of my own, but not sure if I’ve got enough time to prototype them all. Since my job is to build rapid prototypes as fast as possible, it’s going to be an embarrassment if I can’t deliver at least two prototypes. If Peri had been the organiser, he’d have expected a lot more than that.
One of them is half done. But hit a technical snag. The other is awesome in design, but not sure if I’ll get the time to investigate everything before prototyping it.
