CUTC 2007 TechTeam
Posted by Skrud at Sunday, January 14th 2007 at 8:42pm
This year at CUTC they replaced the “ThinkTank” with the “TechTeam”. TechTeam was a competition, where delegates who signed up for a particular team were then split up into groups and given a case study or challenge. On the final day, in the morning, you present whatever it was you were supposed to do and the winning team gets a prize.
The prizes were things like $250 gift certificates to Future Shop for each team member, for example. ATI gave out Radeon 9200 graphics cards (which Matt and Alex won, along with a couple of University of Ottawa students and a Waterloo student). I was on the Intel/Lenovo team. The prize: a Lenovo N100 Laptop for each team member.
I joined a team with four McGill students: Kevin, Yang, Yiming and Francois. Our mission was to bring all the laptops to Montreal. What we had to do was develop a desktop PC solution for a logging (as in forestry) company in northern Manitoba to use outdoors in order to log their logging operations. And we spent many hours working on our design and presentation, and actually showed up in suits for the presentation. I thought we had a fighting chance at getting those laptops.
But alas, we lost to a team that had actually managed to contact people in the forestry industry and professors of social studies at their universities to get some real data, and they had a fancy 3D spinning model.
I still had fun doing the competition, though.
You can look at PDF of our presentation if you’re interested.
