Greetings from Paris!

I've been so busy preparing for the Imagine Cup 2008 IT Challenge that I haven't had time to post anything. We arrived in Paris on Tuesday and started setting up as soon as we checked into the hotel.

For a comprehensive timeline of the IC2008 IT Challenge, please visit Rand's blog here. You can also see a video of one of the milestones of the challenge here.

We've been awake for 31 hours now and have one hour to go. The competition is 24 hours (starting at 2pm Friday Paris time) and ends in one hour. After that, the competitors will present their solutions and designs to the judges (Rand, Chris, Vally and myself) and then we will fill out our judging forms. Tabulation will take about an hour, so I might be able to go to sleep by 6pm (5 hours from now).

It's amazing what these kids have done in such a short amount of time. They all should be very proud of themselves!

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Paris, Here We Come!

I will be going to Paris, France next week to judge the Imagine Cup 2008 world finals. I am a co-captain, along with captains Rand Morimoto, Chris Amaris and fellow co-captain Valy Greavu.

Congratulations to the six round three world finalists! There were over 16,000 competitors and these six students won the right to be call the best of the best. They will compete in the final hands-on challenge from July 3-8 in Paris.

To find out more about the Imagine Cup and the IT Challenge, which is open to students around the world, please visit the Imagine Cup website. Be sure to sign up for IC2009 notification list by clicking the "SIGN UP to get news about Imagine Cup 2009" link on the homepage and enter your email address.

This will be my first time in Europe and I'm very excited! I'll be taking lots of pictures and hopefully getting in a blog post or two.

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