Hi,

it's amazing when undergraduate students have the chance to enlarge their knowledge about important technologies on the industry, such as Nokia platforms. On Brazilian universities, it's not so common to find initiatives that make undergraduate students enjoy on competitions and win prizes. Experienced fellows on such technologies to give support for competitors are even more unusual.  But it is not only just a device that students win, but also knowledge about widely used platforms.

The Embedded Systems and Pervasive Computing Lab (Embedded Lab) on Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) has launched the 2nd edition of Efforts Competition (portuguese): an amazing contest that involves a considerable number of graduate and undergraduate students in order to generate interesting and innovative solutions based on Nokia platforms, such as Qt (for maemo and for S60), maemo and S60. The winners receive Nokia 7310 Supernova devices as prizes. And the best point: the students provide articles that describe all steps involved on the process. They can also solve their doubts about Nokia platforms and about their project with researchers that work on Embedded Lab on such technologies. Unfortunately, Effort Competition 2nd edition subscriptions are over, but keep on eye on it - 3rd edition is coming