Welcome to Digital Wind 2012!
Annual Open International Competition of Computer Projects among Kids, Youth and Students “DIGITAL WIND” is co-held by International Faculty of Applied Computer Technologies of Saratov State Technical University, Saratov Arena Multimedia Center and “Softline” group of companies (Moscow, Russia). Digital Wind is supported by The Ministry of Science and Education of Russia and by Aptech Ltd. (India).
The Competition aims at developing creative interest in information and computer technologies; improving practical skills in with the field of Internet technologies and computer graphics; studying of modern software for creating Web applications and Computer Animation.
The competition is held from November, 1 , 2011 till April, 30, 2012. The projects are registered at the Competition's official website www.digitalwind.ru till February, 28, 2012.
Age of participants: 6 - till 21 years old. Projects are evaluated in 3 age groups: under 12, 13-17 years old, under 21.
The projects may be submitted to the following nominations:- Web Applications:
- Interactive (on-line) application:
- Web-sites
- Multimedia Technologies
- 2D-graphics (projects made with Adobe PhotShop, Corel Draw)
- 2D-animation (projects made with Toon Boom software, Adobe Flash)
- 3D animation (projects made with 3D Max, Maya)
- Computer Games:
- Casual computer games
- Smartphone and Pocket PC casual games:
- Games made with special game development software
Casual games are games for random players - people who play from time to time. These games are simple and don’t require high level of computers and other devices use (Pocket PC, Smartphone, mobile phones etc.). They are well designed, have no violence and easy to play.
Topics are free among all age groups.
Addresses for Official Correspondence:
Post address: Organizational Committee of “Digital Wind-2012”, SSTU, 77, Polytechnicheskaya street, Saratov, Russia, 410054. Tel/Fax: +7 845 2 99-87-15.
E-mail: dean@sstu.ru, olga@sstu.ru, Subject “Digital Wind 2012”
International participants should apply via Web-site: www.digitalwind.ru. In case of problems with on-line registration participants should send their registration form and their project together with the source code to the e-mail: olga@sstu.ru. In case of huge size of the project file, please, put it on the free file sharing resource. All projects should be in English or Russian.
Established special nominations:
- People’s choice nomination (selected via Internet voting);
- For the youngest participant;
- For the most creative idea;
- For the importance of the idea;
- For the best design of a Web application;
- For the most professional project; The award ceremony will be held in April 2012 in Saratov (Russia).