Name of the Organisation : Tata Consultancy Services
Name of the Contest : TCS CodeVita Programming Contest 2014
Location : India
Deadline : 31st July, 2014

Website : http://www.tcs.com/Pages/default.aspx

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TCS CodeVita Programming Contest 2014 :
Sports are a great way of bringing out character of a person. A spectrum of emotions ranging from hope to despair, monotony to excitement, boring to interesting, mediocre to extraordinary performance are seen in every sport known to mankind. The purpose of sports apart from physical and mental fitness is to evoke these feelings in individuals. TCS feels strongly about promoting the culture of Programming-As-A-Sport. TCS CodeVita, a programming competition, is TCS way of attracting young impressionable college students to adopt this culture and experience joy of programming.

Purpose of the Contest :
We are in era of User Generated Content (UGC). Data and technology is created at pace never experienced before. To harness the power of vast data and new technologies skilled manpower is required. Programming skills are the foundation to a fruitful career in these fields. After having run two seasons of the competition in India and having perfected the model and the platform, it’s time to reach out to other geographies by going Global in 2014. The main objective for the contest is to sharpen the contestants' programming skills through some real-life computing practices. The contest will also

Help TCS Spot the bright students :
** Provide students an opportunity to showcase their programming talent and earn peer recognition and honour
** Provide an opportunity to showcase offerings of TCS to the academic world

Structure of the Contest :
CodeVita is a team contest. A team must have 2 members. The contest will comprise of 3 rounds of coding. To participate in CodeVita, one needs to register the team. Both members of the team will need to register individually. The registration portal will provide necessary workflows to form the team online. Only a valid team can participate in the contest.

Registering for the contest :
Codevita is a global contest and in order to participate in this contest a participant must follow the below steps

1) Create Profile:
Create a profile on the TCS Career portal. (Ignore this step if you have already created your profile)
** If you are a student currently studying in an institution based in India, then you need to register on the TCS Next Step portal. Ensure that you create your profile as a Campus/Off Campus applicant.
** If you are a student currently studying in an institution in any other country (except India), then create your profile.

2) Login:
Login to Next Step portal.

3) Campus Commune:
Launch Campus Commune platform

4) Register for the Contest :
** Click on the Codevita banner on Campus Commune homepage to register for the contest.
** Note down your secret code. This is required for signing into the Codevita contest platform.

5) Complete team formation process :
Form two member team to participate in the contest

6) Login to Codevita Coding Platform and participate in the contest :
** To help contestants warm up for the contest, a practice round will be open to participants who have registered for the contest
** Based on the contest calendar given below, access the Codevita Coding platform and take up practice and contest rounds.

Enter Now : https://nextstep.tcs.com/campus/
Note :
For Indian students, the contest is open for the batch of 2015,16,17 and 18

Registration now open for students from India, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Uruguay.

For More Details : https://campuscommune.tcs.com/intro/...coding-contest