Dell Technologies Envision Future Graduation Project Competition

Eligibility Criteria

• Students who wish to participate should be in their senior year and should be enrolled in any academic Institution in the Middle East, Russia, Africa and Turkey.
• Students should have a faculty member as their supervisor.
• Students should be a non-governmental employees and full-time university students.
• Authenticity of the information provided by the students should be validated by the head of his/her department or his/her faculty advisor.
• Students should be listed only in one project.
• All communication between Dell Technologies and the project team will be done through the project academic advisor and the designated team leader.
• Each competing team should consist of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 members. One of the team members should be selected as a team leader with the following responsibilities.

Note:

• Students should have a strong academic standing, validated by the Head of their Department.
•  The correctness of the information provided by the students should be validated by the official signature and stamp of the Dean of their college/institute.
• At the time of submission, all the members of student teams should not be full time employees of any organization whatsoever, whether it is private, public, or non-governmental.
• No students should be listed in more than one project.
• Students should have a faculty member as their official academic advisor and mentor.

Offered Benefits

Winners of the competition will receive cash prizes as below:

• First place will receive a cash prize of $5,000
• Second place will receive a cash prize of $4,000
• Third place winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000
• All the members of the Top 10 teams will get recognition certificates for their achievement.
• We will be offering a mentoring opportunity by Dell Experts.
• A formal award ceremony for winning team members, academic advisors and senior officials from their university/college.

Application Process

Go to Dell Technologies on emcenvisionthefuture.com to apply

Participating teams should submit their Projects Abstracts containing the following information:

• Question 1: What is the main problem that you are solving? Why did you choose it?
• Question 2: Give a brief overview of the current solutions that you found in your literature survey.
• Question 3: Describe how your proposed solution will be used and operated in a real-life environment?
• Question 4: Describe the high-Level architecture and the main software and hardware components of your system. (You can use block diagrams)
• Question 5: What are the technology platforms that you intend to use in building your system, such as operating systems, programming languages, backend/frontend stacks, AI models, etc.?
• Question 6: Compared to the existing solutions that you have read about, what are the new ideas that you intend to develop and include in your solution?
• Question 7: Describe your team’s system development methodology and quality assurance process.
• Question 8: Give your initial project management plans, especially: distribution of responsibilities and tasks, milestone schedule, training plan, risk management, contingency plans, and change control procedures.