{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-26T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/?p=28"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T13:57:48","slug":"ibm-uk-mainframe2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"IBM UK Mainframe Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32\" title=\"MainframeChallenge\" src=\"http:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MainframeChallenge.png\" alt=\"IBM UK Mainframe Challenge Poster\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><br \/>\nIBM has launched its annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/uk\/takethechallenge\" target=\"_blank\">Mainframe contest<\/a>. It has already started and it will continue to run until 31st December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes this year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hoodie to the first 250 students to complete Part 1.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a350 Amazon Gift Card for the first 25 to correctly complete Part 2.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy Tab and a visit to Hursley Labs for the top 3 students completing Part 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Mainframe challenge is a great opportunity for undergraduates to learn some skills related to IBM&#8217;s zOS operating system. Skills which are sought after in industry and hard to come by, without this kind of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there are 200 students signed up and the majority of them are from Manchester University. It would be a good show if we could get Aber Comp Sci in the top 3 and win those prizes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAdditional Information is shown on the poster:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea;\" src=\"http:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MainframeAdvert.png\" alt=\"mainframe advert\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/ibm.com\/uk\/takethechallenge\">ibm.com\/uk\/takethechallenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">This information was given to us from Sam Marland, a student in the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has launched its annual Mainframe contest. It has already started and it will continue to run until 31st December 2012. The prizes this year include: A hoodie to the first 250 students to complete Part 1. \u00a350 Amazon Gift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-year","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourfuture.dcs.aber.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}