Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006

In a few hours, submissions for the final reports to one of the most keenly contested Embedded Design Contest would be due. As the name suggests, students from colleges and universities around the world compete to create a theme based Embedded System running Windows CE.

This year, the theme for the Windows Embedded Student ChallengE 2006 is "Preserving, protecting and enhancing the environment."

Around 200 entries are expected for the finals out of which top 30 submissions would be selected for the Finals at Seattle on 23rd and 24th June 2006.

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE designs require building a Windows CE image on top of which applications are developed. The underlying hardware is the Ebox-II Embedded Computer, provided free to qualifying teams by Microsoft. Participants can ofcourse add more interface hardware for their particular application. Ebox-II is a cool piece of hardware running with less than 8W of peak power and with WinCE its amazing. It worked flawless right out of the box.

Last year's winner was team Sam from RMIT, Australia with their submission titled EverGreen: Intelligent Watering System.

This year, I too am mentoring a team from my college and we hope to be in Seattle in June. See ya there!

Dhananjay V. Gadre

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