APPATHON: App Contest for Students

Microsoft envisions the professionals from industry working in close contact with the students and faculty from the education sector, where professional experience along with the knowledge of current technologies being used in the IT industry and the creative new ideas from the minds of tomorrow can help produce the next breakthrough in the IT Industry.

Keeping it in mind, Microsoft plans to initiate the first of its kind Industry Academia Collaboration event with the focus set on Windows Phone7 Application Development.

Microsoft Pakistan in alliance with P@SHA, HEC, wi-tribe, ProPakistani and Comsats is holding an Application Development Appathon & Exhibition at Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad.

10+ top universities from Islamabad and Lahore with more than 100 students are expected to participate where they will publish and showcase their applications.

Microsoft said that this apps exhibition will be giving students a chance to visit their stations, see what they have developed and discuss how they have done it

Students willing to participate and showcase their work to not only Microsoft but the Industry and Academicians present there, can get themselves registered with Microsoft for the event.

The competition is unique, in that the participants are not restricted to developing applications only on the assigned dates of the competition. Instead, the applicants can start developing their applications NOW. What this means for them is that there is no time restriction. Develop as much as you want, in the development environment you desire.

The participants will be welcomed to COMSATS Institute where they will be required to upload all the applications they have created to Yalla Apps Marketplace using Student Cards which will be provided to all the participants on the day of the Event. A brief agenda of the event is as follows:

31^st March 2012:

Time	Activity
9:30am – 10:30am	Introductory gathering and distribution of Student access card
10:30am – 1:00 pm	First phase of App Publishing
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Lunch and Prayer
2:30pm – 5:00pm	Second phase of App Publishing

1^st April 2012:

Time	Activity
9:30am – 12:00pm	Gathering and Third and Final phase of App Publishing
12:30pm-4:00pm	App Exhibition
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Lunch and Prayers
2-30pm – 3:30pm	Kinect Programming with Ali Sufyan
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Launch of Wi-tribe Bazaar in Partnership with Microsoft Pakistan
4:00pm – onwards	Prize distribution ceremony