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Caroline Phillips

Recent Posts

• Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, August 5th-10th 2007, Seoul, South Korea

  Posted: 17 Aug 2007 at 14:52 by carolp

  I'm sure that by now many of you will probably already have seen the final results from this year's Imagine Cup competition which was bigger and even better than ever with over 100,000 students from over 100 countries entering and 344 students from 65 countries battling it out la

• Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, August 5th-10th 2007, Seoul, South Korea

  Posted: 17 Aug 2007 at 13:52

  I'm sure that by now many of you will probably already have seen the final results from this year's Imagine Cup competition which was bigger and even better than ever with over 100,000 students from over 100 countries entering and 344 students from 65 countries battling it out last week in S

• Imagine Cup Gallery Launches in Second Life

  Posted: 16 Jul 2007 at 18:14 by carolp

  Just in case you haven’t checked this out yet ...  we’ve launched an Imagine Cup Gallery in Second Life, the increasingly popular virtual world, to showcase 21 of the Software Design teams and their applications from Europe, the Middle East and Africa before they head off to Korea to comp

• Namaste from the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, India!

  Posted: 21 Aug 2006 at 19:40 by carolp

  Well it’s been over a year since I last blogged…. and I guess my only excuse is the fact that my last post coincided with moving to a new role within Microsoft, still based in Reading and in the Academic Developer team, but working in the Europe, Middle East & Africa regional team responsible fo

• Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals trip report

  Posted: 30 Aug 2005 at 22:49 by carolp

  Well it seems like an age ago now but this year’s finals were held earlier in the month in Yokohama, Japan, which is a fabulous blend of both the traditional and modern situated about one hour south of Tokyo. Famous for its port, a devastating earthquake, its ferris wheel, Ramen noodle museum and so

• The end of an Era (to borrow a phrase from Antranik..)

  Posted: 01 Jul 2005 at 20:18 by carolp

  Last week was the culmination of a really amazing academic year and what better way to end than with our last MSP meeting of the year and the finals of the Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge.   Microsoft Student Partner Event, Cambridge, June 20th The weekend hit temperatures of 30 degrees a

• The end of an Era (to borrow a phrase from Antranik..)

  Posted: 29 Jun 2005 at 15:25

  Last week was the culmination of an amazing academic year and what better way to end than with our last MSP meeting of the year and the finals of the Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge.   Microsoft Student Partner Event, Cambridge, June 20th The weekend hit temperatures of 30 degrees and hea

• East meets West

  Posted: 23 Jun 2005 at 03:02 by carolp

  During the past month I've been out on the road again starting off with a trip to Zurich for a European developer marketing meeting. It was then off to Istanbul for the Microsoft OneEd conference which brings together the Academic Developer, Education and Microsoft Research teams from across Europe

• East meets West

  Posted: 16 Jun 2005 at 21:04

  During the past month I've been out on the road again starting off with a trip to Zurich for a European developer marketing meeting. It was then off to Istanbul for the Microsoft OneEd conference which brings together the Academic Developer, Education and Microsoft Research teams from across Europe

• Can't Get You Out of My Head!

  Posted: 17 May 2005 at 22:52 by carolp

  Life at Microsoft in the Academic Team is always crazy however the past few weeks have been even crazier than usual and in chronological order the key highlights include:   Imagine Cup UK Software Design Final We received a great number of incredibly high quality submissions before the May 1st

• Can't Get You Out of My Head!

  Posted: 17 May 2005 at 18:23

  Life at Microsoft in the Academic Team is always crazy however the past few weeks have been even crazier than usual and in chronological order the key highlights include:   Imagine Cup UK Software Design Final We received a great number of incredibly high quality submissions before the May 1st

• VBUG Spring Conference and Slide5

  Posted: 27 Apr 2005 at 21:34 by carolp

  Carrying on the theme of technology events I just wanted to let you know about a couple of great upcoming events for both students and lecturers. VBUG Spring ASP.NET Conference, 18th May 2005,  Sheffield Hallam UniversityThis one day in-depth conference covers the techn

• VBUG Spring Conference and Slide5

  Posted: 27 Apr 2005 at 16:33

  Carrying on the theme of technology events I just wanted to let you know about a couple of great upcoming events for both students and lecturers. VBUG Spring ASP.NET Conference, 18th May 2005,  Sheffield Hallam UniversityThis one day in-depth conference covers the techn

• Microsoft Technical Roadshow kicks off in Edinburgh

  Posted: 19 Apr 2005 at 18:37 by carolp

  Chris, Andy and I and indeed most of the Developer team are now back from a trip up to Bonny Scotland and Edinburgh for the first of the new, improved, spring series of Technical Roadshows which now include 3 technical tracks (Developer, IT Professional and Security). Edinburgh is definitely one of

• Microsoft Technical Roadshow kicks off in Edinburgh

  Posted: 18 Apr 2005 at 11:45

  Chris, Andy and I and indeed most of the Developer and IT Pro teams are now back from a trip up to Bonny Scotland and Edinburgh for the first of the new, improved, spring series of Technical Roadshows which now include 3 technical tracks (Developer, IT Professional and Security). Edinburgh is one of

• Future Flight Takes Off

  Posted: 11 Apr 2005 at 16:20 by carolp

  If you have any friends and or even children aged between 11 and 16 studying at a school in the UK interested in design and or aviation then please point them in the direction of the great new Future Flight web-based competition which was launched last week at the London Airshow at Earls Court.

• Future Flight Takes Off

  Posted: 11 Apr 2005 at 12:16

  If you have any friends and or even children aged between 11 and 16 studying at a school in the UK interested in design and or aviation then please point them in the direction of the great new Future Flight web-based competition which was launched last week at the London Airshow at Earls Court.

• Imagine Cup Registration Deadline Looming

  Posted: 23 Mar 2005 at 19:42 by carolp

  Just a quick reminder that time is running out to register for this year’s Imagine Cup student competition and to claim your free copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition via theSpoke Premium before April 1 2005.   And for those of you that fancy your chances in the Software Design

• Imagine Cup Registration Deadline Looming

  Posted: 23 Mar 2005 at 14:01

  Just a quick reminder that time is running out to register for this year’s Imagine Cup student competition and to claim your free copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition via theSpoke Premium before April 1 2005.   And for those of you that fancy your chances in the Software Design

• Unforgettable Places to see before you Die

  Posted: 21 Mar 2005 at 17:06 by carolp

  So I can’t believe that yet another year has literally whizzed by; maybe it’s something to do with the fast pace of the IT industry, working in the academic team or maybe I’m just getting older…. Last year ended with the usual frenetic array of activities including our first Gen ’05 campus even