Registration is now open for the 2011 IBM Master the Mainframe Contest, with over $35,000 in prizes up for grabs! The contest beings Oct. 3 and runs through Dec. 28. Contestants may register at anytime during the competition.
Competitors will log into a mainframe system from their home computers or labs and complete increasingly difficult technical challenges for bigger and bigger prizes, ranging from t-shirts to trips and pre-paid debit cards.
Students may register at the contest homepage: http://go.unl.edu/b2m.
*Note: when prompted for "Professor:" use Charles Riedesel, (riedesel@cse.unl.edu).
If you have any questions about the contest, you can reach the IBM Academic Initiative System z program at zskills@us.ibm.com.
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More details at: http://go.unl.edu/b2m