Competition is Over, now Waiting for the Results…
The 2011 IT Challenge competition started 9 months ago, through challenging qualifying rounds, to the final 24-hour non-stop competition. The top 6 finalists have worked extremely hard to get here, and they have ALL done a GREAT job in making it through to the finish!
As head judge and Captain of the competition, I’m proud to know these competitors have done their best and have truly done some amazing things! It’s more than just knowing the technology, it’s also in most cases traveling halfway around the world, outside of their home country for the first time, taking something new and different, trying to figure it out, and reasoning through the solution, which they have ALL demonstrated!
The competitors were asked to build a full blown computer network in just 24-hours time, and they all worked through the challenge without for a moment giving anything less than their best! Chris’ worry of the competitors finishing the full competition far before the end of time never came to fruition, the competitors were adequately challenged with the scenario.
As we wrapped up the 24-hour period, there were smiles on the faces of ALL of the competitors, happy to have made it through the challenge.
Over the preceding 3-hours, we met with each of the 6 competitors for 30-minutes and had them show us their effort, progress, and results. We asked them to demonstrate to us functionality across 20 functional areas, to present to us their final results. The presentations were all very well done, the 4 judges noted their scores, the score cards have been tallied and the top 3 will be announced on Wednesday afternoon during the World Festival Awards Ceremony!
Some stats from the IC2011 IT Challenge Networking:
The competitors visited over 2,700 different web destinations during the 24-hour period
11.6 GB of data was transmitted from over 13,000 packets during the competition
This is a wonderful competition that we thank Microsoft for supporting every year to help support, develop, educate, and provide opportunities to thousands of technology enthusiasts from around the world!!!
