[GAP] Announcing the Make with Ada Competition

[Jamie Ayre]

Hello All,

A number of you have asked for posters to put up in your universities. They can be downloaded here:

http://www.makewithada.org/resources

Kind regards,

Jamie

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Jamie Ayre <ayre at adacore.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the launch of the “Make with Ada” programming competition, a contest that aims to help the embedded software community improve the quality of their code by encouraging the use of the Ada and SPARK programming languages. The competition will run from June 20 to September 30, 2016 and offers over €8000 in total prizes. Participants can register for the competition at www.makewithada.org.
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> Competition Rules
> The competition is open to individuals and to teams with up to four members. The goal is to design and implement an embedded software project for an ARM Cortex M or R processor where Ada and/or SPARK are the principal language technologies. Entrants will need to demonstrate that their system meets its requirements and has been developed using sound software engineering practices. Submission deadline is September 30, 2016. The award winners will be announced in November 2016.
> 
> Prizes and Judging Criteria
> Cash prizes will be awarded to the projects that best meet the overall criteria of software dependability, openness, collaborativeness and inventiveness.
> * Top Prize - 5000 Euros
> * Second Prize – 2000 Euros
> * Third Prize – 1000 Euros
> Two special awards (nano-drones) will also be offered: one for the project rated best for dependability, and the other for the project rated best for inventiveness.
> 
> The “Make with Ada” competition is part of an overall AdaCore initiative to foster the growth of Ada and SPARK for developing embedded systems and more generally for developing “software that matters”. Other elements of this initiative are the free on-line training available at AdaCore U (u.adacore.com), and the various resources for free software developers and students/hobbyists at the github repository (github.com/AdaCore) and the libre site (libre.adacore.com).
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> Further information about Ada and Spark, along with links to free resource pages and instructions on how to get started by downloading the GNAT GPL edition for Bare Board ARM, are available at http://makewithada.org/getting-started.
> 
> We hope that you will encourage your students to join in, have some fun, and potentially win the prizes!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jamie
> 
> Jamie Ayre, Commercial Team Lead, AdaCore
> Tel:  +33 1 49 70 66 35 Cell: +33 6 73 16 31 98
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