Winning at Code::XtremeApps:: 2009

Congratulations to our students and mentor Mr Jimmy Ang, the Dream Machine, on winning the Code::XtremeApps:: 2009 !!!

Some background on the competitions ... Competitors in this competition had to build an innovative and useful application within 24 hours. For this year's competition, participants came up with an innovative way to educate the public about the benefits of healthy living and the harmful effects of smoking. Some 119 teams took part in this competition and 17 teams were selected for final judging on 17 July 2009. AND ours came in FIRST :)

Said Colin Pang, team leader of winning team ‘Dream Machine’, “What I’ve learnt most about this competition is the importance of perseverance: you never know just how much you can achieve within 24 hours, and the results will amaze you.”

The team came up with a suite of healthcare programmes for mobile phones based on the Google Android platform. They worked non-stop for 24 hours, and kept awake with a diet of Red Bulldrinks, sweets and biscuits. Some machines they are !!!

Graphics Design Class

Check out the happenings inside our Year 1 Graphics Design classes !!! Seems to be having a blasting time :)

From Graphic Design Class 1

From Graphic Design Class 2

From Graphic Design Class 3

Help !! I am Broke !!

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Team PlanetKY of SG won 2nd Place worldwide

Team PlanetKY of Singapore won the 2nd place worldwide in the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 competition, MashUp category!

I would like to say a big big THANK YOU to all of you whom have been continuously supporting us, helped us invite your friends, and also for believing in us! ;) We wil never achieve where we are without the help from all of you!

Please continue to help us by spreading our group's URL to your friends, let them know about PlanetKY & our mashup application, the VENews. And also, tell them that we have tutorial which teach them how to create simple mashup applications. :D

Come & change the world with the PlanetKY!

For more photos please visit my (Wen Bin) Facebook and feel free to visit the photo album of all the other Team Singapore representatives for even more photos! :D

Read more: Microsoft made the impossible become possible

P.S. - For those who don't know, PlanetKY is a group formed by Wen Bin (me) and James, both of us are MIT graduates.

E-Learn Week & Common Test

Hello People, how is the study week been going for you from home ? We hope you are keeping yourself free from the bugs that are going around and mugging at home for next week common test instead :):):) In the meantime, we are sure lot of emails, msn and sms are flying around between you and your lecturers, hope you are not swarm with them and you do not swarm your lecturers as well .. haha.

Next week is common test week and if you are still not aware of the schedule, the schedule is in "myNYP Portal" as well as the iConnect website :)

By the way, go and get your Temperature Sticker 1st thing when you come into campus, else you will NOT be allowed to take your test.

Stay healthy :)

Win $6000 Cash??

Can you design a creative website that is also easy to maintain? Check out the TOTE Board Website Design Competition:

http://www.toteboard.gov.sg/competition/index.html

Open to all poly students =)

Jobs Alert

A government organisation needs 4 candidates to perform IT technical support roles. Good knowledge in IT systems and IT security. Programming skills are NOT required. Email your interest to OutsidetheLT@gmail.com