App Run for the Common Room

Microsoft is partnering with ECSESS to bring some awesome technology to your Lounge. If you ever wanted to play some awesome games at school, but couldn't. Well, You will have a chance to change all of that!

Microsoft will be donating an Xbox 360 with Kinect!

There is a catch. Good old MS wouldn't give it to you for free. They want the Student's to earn it!
ECSESS is hosting an App Run for this Xbox. We need 20 APPs to be submitted and published (or in the process of.) by Monday, March 5th.

but why would you compete when you are not getting anything yourself? It seems MS thought of that.
Microsoft is giving a prize to EVERY STUDENT that submits a quality app through their initiative at www.developermovement.com so make sure you subscribe in advance. Prizes include your own personal Windows phone 7.5. and also your own Xbox 360 to match the one coming to the Common Room.

Event Highlights:

When: March 2nd to March 5th
with a tutorial on March 2nd (and through out the weekend)
Free Pizza!
Groups of up to three
Best App will be getting a Special Prize.
Every Student publishing a quality App will get a prize*.
Any Questions: Email: t-oscarg@microsoft.com

We will have devices for you to test. Who knows, maybe you can catcch a glimpse of Windows 8!

What you need to do in advance:

Pay 5$ for registration in the ECSESS lounge. Trottier 1st floor.
Register for www.developermovement.com
Go to www.dreamspark.com

Or the McGill MSDNAA site
Or create.msdn.com or skip ahead directly to the registration page.
And register as a STUDENT developer for windows phone.
(this takes a bit long, so make sure to do it in advance)
In the same pages as above download the Windows Phone Development Tools

I recommend you also download

nuget.codeplex.com (open source packages )
Silverlight for Windows Phone toolkit to have all the current style features at your disposal.

Preparation:

Read and learn about Csharp www.csharpcourse.com ( 20 to 80 page pdf on how to code in C#)
Channel9.msdn.com watch tutorials (jumpstart tutorials on windows phone)
Microsoft Canada’s GoDevMental Team. Keep up with what’s happening for Students in Canada:

Submitting your APP

Besides publishing your App on App Hub, we are asking you to "like" the Go DevMental Facebook page and post on that wall your name, name of your App, school you go to with a little ddescription of your app.