Name: Google Code Jam
Details: Coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice.
At Stake: Top 100 finalists will divide over $80,000 in prize money
Name: The Code Project Random Programming Competition, Summer 2008.
Details: Write an application that implements the 1971 'Star Trek' game in whatever manner you feel like. Use a technology you've never touched before. Use a technology you're an ace in. Or just use a technology that is absolutely inappropriate for the task and hand and bend it to your will.
At Stake: TechEd 2008 bag, a Code Project fleece size XL and a dozen Code Project stickers
Closes: 31st August, 2008
Name: Nokia Nseries :: Fusions Challenge
At Stake: Trip to Turkey & Nokia N78
Country Focus: India
Closes: 27th July 2008
Name: Cutscape
Details: Open-source competition created to allow editors, filmmakers, or even your average music video fan to take professionally shot, film-grade footage and cut their own music video. The idea being there are many ways to tell a story and we want to find the best!
Name: OpenCut - Open-source Film Editting Competition
Details: OpenCut is a completely open-source film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. As there is no "one way" to tell a story, so too can stories benefit from being re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.
Closes: Currently Closed. Version 2 will open soon.
Name: Symbian Student Essay Contest 2008
At Stake: Up to ten essays will each be awarded a top prize of £1000. A special commendation will be awarded to those essays deemed of a high quality but which are not among the winning entries.
Open to: Anyone registered as a student at any university worldwide
Closes: 30th September 2008
