TGMC-2010 Contest - IBM Felicitation Ceremony held on Nov 15th 2011
CT Group of institutions coveted the honour of being ranked amongst Top 30 colleges in India by IBM in a felicitation ceremony organised at hotel Leela Palace, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi on Nov. 15, 2011. Dr Manoj Kumar, Group Director received the award from Mr. Anil Menon, Director, Software Group Marketing, IBM India/South Asia.
TGMC promotes students from engineering colleges from across India in their endeavor to develop solutions for real-time problems and scenarios using IBM open source software. It is aimed to encourage students who aspire to make key contributions to develop applications on cutting-edge IBM technologies while providing them with an opportunity to improve their software-writing skills.
In all, 1,50,000 students from over 3500 colleges all over india participated in the contest. Based on the paticipation of the students in TGMC and the quality of the SRS and projects submitted by its students, CT Group of Institutions was ranked amongst the Top 30 colleges.
Launched in 2004, TGMC is an innovative program organized every year that addresses the need to better educate millions of students for a more competitive information technology (IT) workforce by partnering with colleges and universities.
Every year, the growth and reach of TGMC has increased, seeing a marked increase in the number of students who are keen to participate in such an endeavor. In fact, TGMC is now listed in the Limca Book of Records as the largest technological contest of its kind – testament to the fact that there is a need in today’s competitive world for such an initiative that supports, guides, and challenges students to higher goals.
Universities provide excellent learning environments, but find it difficult to teach students about an IT transformation in progress unless those driving the transformation – IT companies at the helm of transformation – provide real-time input and support. TGMC is an out reach of the IBM Academic Initiative, a global program that facilitates the collaboration between IBM and educators to teach students the IT skills they need to be competitive and keep pace with changes in the workplace.
Dr. Manoj Kumar, Group Director informed that IBM has established a Centre of Excellence at CT campus and under Academic Initiative programme, IBM provides access to software, training, and course materials at no charge to our students. Available within the Academic Initiative, IBM offers hundreds of resources for integration into college curricula to help teach students how to master the fast-growing market of open technologies. Through this initiative, IBM is working with students to build technology and science skills.
S. Charanjit Singh Channi, Chairman, C T Institutions said that we are committed to provide excellent infrastructure, research facilities and environment to our faculty and staff.
