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Imagine Cup 2009

Ξ July 9th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Competitions, Everything has a start, Microsoft Student Partners |

The Imagine Cup 2009 competition ended bringing 2 trophies to Romania. This year, we got the first prize in IT Challenge and in the Software Design competitions. It is the first time when Romania manages to get the first prize in Software Design and it represents the result of the hard work and ingenuity of the competitors as well as the people supporting them. (more…)

.Net Summer Rally 2009

Ξ July 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ .Net Framework, Microsoft Student Partners |

Summer has come and with it a new edition of the .Net Summer Rally training organized by the Microsoft Student Partners from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. This is the third edition of the course and I am very pleased to say that it draws more and more students interested in improving their coding skills.

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Internship at Microsoft

Ξ December 21st, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Everything has a start, Microsoft Student Partners |

Well, it’s been a while since I came back from Redmond, and I finally got to write this blog entry. This one was continuously postponed due to lack of time, but since the holyday is here, I have time for writing it as well.

There were several aspects that are worth mentioning about an internship at Microsoft, (more…)

Microsoft Student Partner Summit v1.0

Ξ September 29th, 2008 | → 4 Comments | ∇ Everything has a start, Microsoft Student Partners |

During 25-26 of September I was one of the Microsoft Student Partners invited to take part in the version 1 of the MSP Summit. This event brought together for a few days MSP’s from all over the world in order to learn more about the upcoming Microsoft products and technologies, in order to help improve the Microsoft Student Partner program and to create an opportunity for the MSP’s to interact with (more…)

Microsoft Academic Tour 4.5

Ξ May 29th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Microsoft Student Partners, Tools and technologies |

The last 2 months have been extremely busy. I was mainly busy with Microsoft Academic Tour and with Imagine Cup. Microsoft Academic Tour is the academic version of the Microsoft Launch Tour called “Heroes Happen Here”.  The tour was focused on 3 major Microsoft products: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. I had the opportunity to be part of a team of 5 students that held presentations in 5 universities throughout the country. The team

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