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The website is tracking the results of the Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania) Teams at the International Student Competitions, and providing news and advices about the competitions.

Brief of awards in the world finals, until 2009:
2 x 1st place
3 x 2nd place
3 x 3rd place
several honorable mentions

Submitting to RSS you will receive the latest news about what competitions are currently available, team mentoring and advices.

The site is maintained by Nicolae Tapus (team mentor for several years) and Vlad Panait (contest participant 2002 and team mentor for several years). Please feel free to post questions or commentaries, we will reply in the shortest time possible.

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE

Windows Embedded Student ChallengE used to be a separate student design contest based on the Microsoft embedded technologies. Starting with 2006, it is part of the Imagine Cup contest.

Romanian teams that participated in the contest:

2005 - 3 out of 5 Romanian teams in the world finals:

3rd place - Project Invisanet
Alpha Team: Anca Mihaela Hamuraru, Alin-Iulian Lazar, Florin Dinu si Cosmin Nicolae Stan
Team mentors: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

Honorable Mention - Project: Hello Teddy
Blue Arrow Team: Andrei Laurentiu Georgescu, Stefan-Valentin Guna, Gabriel Alexandru Ghiondea, Emil-Cristian Bîrsan
Team mentors: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

Mention - Project: IntelliTraffic
Newton Team: Maximilian Machedon, Iulian Moraru, Bogdan Marius Tudor, Andrei Eugen Lascarov Stamate
Team mentor: Nirvana Popescu

[more about 2005 contest..]

2006 - 3 Romanian teams in the world finals:

1st place - Project Forest Watcher
44Tech Team: Cristian Iuliu Pop, Ioana Romelia Bratie, Omar Salim Choudary, Mircea Dan Gheorghe
Team mentor: Nirvana Popescu

4th place - Project BirdSpot
The Release Candidates Team: Alin Iulian Lazar, Andrei Gheorghe, Mihai George Ciureanu, Radu Nedelcu
Team mentor: Nicolae Tapus

Mention - Project Pi-CoPS
Neptune Team: Stefan Bucur, Mihai-Alexandru Balan, Razvan Tataroiu, Vlad Ureche
Team mentors: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

[more about 2006 contest..]

Imagine Cup

The Imagine Cup was founded in 2003. Worldwide Finals host countries have spanned the globe from Spain, to Brazil, to Japan, to India, to South Korea, and last year, to France. In 2009 the Worldwide Finals will take place in July in Cairo, Egypt.

Organizer: Microsoft
Size: More than 200,000 students from over 100 countries entered the 2008 competition.
The theme of Imagine Cup 2009 is "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world's toughest problems.
(website)

Romanian teams that participated in the contest:

2004 - 1st place Romanian regional section
Project WebEdu - A Collaborative Online Learning Environment.
WebEdu Development Team: Tudor Ionescu, Alexandru Herisanu, Tereza Iofciu, Claudia Szabo
Team mentor: Nicolae Tapus

2006 - 2nd place Romanian regional section
Project Global Health System
Green.Point Team: Dan Badea, Catalin Criveteanu, Eduard Orsaanu, Dan Crisan
Team mentor: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

2007 - 4th place Romanian regional section
Project S.M.A.R.T.
TechOwls Team: Alexandru Calotoiu, Liviu Mihai Ciortea, Teodor Alexandru Stoenescu, Monica Mihaela Bugeanu
Team mentor: Decebal Popescu

ACM

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University. The contest involves a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Participation has grown to several tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines at almost 2,000 universities from over 80 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.

(website)

Romanian teams that participated in the contest:

2002 - 18th place
2001 - honorable mention
1999 - 11th place
1998 - 10th place
1996 - 16th place

Computer Society International Design Competition

Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC) was the most prestigious student design competitions during 2000-2006. Under IEEE's - Computer Society wing, the contest was sponsored and judged by the most important companies in the IT world: AMD, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, Lucent, NSF, Sun, SAIC, Caldera, QNX, Pervasive Software, General Software, VersaLogic. In the judging team there were people from the sponsors, as well as academia (Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech) and USDoD.
The contest had several stages, and took aprox 6 months of development, at each stage the team was judged based on the progress of the work, and technical inovativity.
The world finals were held in Washington DC, and put face to face for 2 days, the best 10 teams from all over the world.

Romanian teams that participated in the contest:

2002 - 1st place - BE Secure: Building Surveillance Equipment ( PowerPoint Presentation) ( Project Report)(BE Secure: The Movie)
Team: Vlad Panait, Mihai Mircea, Tiberius Parcalabu
Mentor: Nicolae Tapus

2003 - 2nd place - Eyes Only ( PowerPoint Presentation) ( Project Report)
Team: Tiberius Parcalabu, Andrei Hagiescu
Mentor: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

2004 - 2nd place - eXpress! Help ( Project Report)
Team: Andrei Hagiescu, Marian Mihailescu, Cristina Toma
Mentor: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

2005 - 3rd place - NOMAD Positioning System (Presentation) (Project Report)
Team: Doru Arfire, Catalin Ioana, Bogdan Lucaciu, Marius Muresan
Mentor: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait

2006 - 3rd place - Synairgy ( Project Report)
Team: Maximilian Machedon, Iulian Moraru, Bogdan Marius Tudor, Dan Ştefan Tudose
Mentor: Nicolae Tapus, Vlad Panait


For the official contest web-site, follow the link.