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The TCS Mobility Challenge

The proliferation of mobile devices and the growth in mobile capabilities make mobile enablement a high priority application for today's enterprises. Mobile devices with solutions and applications improve customer experience, simplify interactions, make processes quicker and more convenient, and empower us to make better decisions faster thereby improving productivity. The Mobility Space seeks constant creativity and innovation to be able to keep up with the ever increasing consumer expectations. This Contest challenges young and bright developers to showcase their talent and creativity by developing the next generation Mobile App.

Eligibility
The contest is open to pre-final year engineering students (Year of Passing- 2013) from TCS Accredited institutes. We invite nominations from UG/PG engineering students specializing in any of the following streams - CS/IT/EEE/ECE/MCA.

Contest Structure
The contest comprises of the following three rounds:

Round 2 Round 1

Idea Submission
The Idea Submission round requires the teams to conceptualize a consumer mobile application which addresses one or more needs of an end consumer. The teams need to submit an executive summary of their mobile application in not more than 1000 words in a power point or PDF format. The application should cater to any one of the following fields or may be inter-disciplinary. Entertainment | Education | Business| Finance | Media | Social | Health & Lifestyle | Sports

Quiz
An Online Quiz would be launched on Campus Commune and all participating teams would be required to take up the quiz concurrently.

Round 3
The top 3 teams will win exciting prizes!
iPad 2 and an Internship Opportunity* with the TCS Mobility Team
* Subject to Terms and Conditions as applicable

Application Demonstration and Presentation

1st Prize

iPod Touch

2nd Prize

3rd Prize
DigiCam

In the final round, the Top 10 teams get a chance to visit a TCS office and present their application to the TCS Evaluation panel.

Participation Guidelines
Each Institute can nominate a maximum of 3 teams. Each team is required to have 3 members. Interested students are required to submit their nomination to the Training and Placement Officer of the respective institute. The TPO can nominate a maximum of 3 teams representing the Institute in the template shared by TCS. Only students with Year of Passing as 2013 are eligible to participate. The minimum age for participation in the contest is 18 years. The last date for TPOs to submit the nominations to the TCS representative is 15th March 2012. Each team should have a team name and identify a team leader. The team leaders will be our point of contact for all communication with respect to the contest. They will also be responsible to update their team members on any communication from TCS with respect to the contest. The nominations received from institutes will be validated against the Contest Eligibility Criteria. TCS would send an email to the team leader confirming the participation. It is mandatory for all participants/team members to have registered on the TCS NextStep portal and have a valid CT Reference Number. The team members can be from the same discipline or may be inter-disciplinary. Team members have to remain constant throughout the contest. Movement within teams is not allowed and will lead to disqualification from the contest. Each participant must agree to the Terms and Conditions before participating in the Contest. All costs for participation in the contest will have to be borne by the team/institute only. The infrastructure required for the development of the mobile application shall be borne by the team or the institution they represent. TCS will not be liable for any damage to the institutes infrastructure that may be caused by participants from the institute during the contest. The teams shall select any one of the platformsiOS, Android, Windows Phone for developing the mobile application.
Entries submitted after the round/contest end

date will not be considered for evaluation.