Overview

Microsoft Student Partners are on-campus student leaders with a passion for sharing technology with their classmates. Gain leadership experiences, get access to resources and develop your technical and career skills. Students get opportunity in leading a hackathon, mentoring computer science students, and unlocking the next great idea with their teams. The MSP program is a worldwide recognizable program to sponsor students majoring in disciplines related to technology. The program enhances students' employability by offering training in skills not usually taught in academia, including knowledge of Microsoft technologies.

The candidate students are evaluated on the following attributes:

  • Technical expert
  • A campus leader
  • An active part of the online community
  • Embraces new technology
  • Works well with faculty
  • Keeps an outgoing personality and mature attitude

Challenges

To become a Microsoft Student parner you have to complete 3 challeges.

  1. A video challenge

    I created a 1-minute video explaining why I should be a Microsoft Student Partner on mycampus. Elaborated on technical skills, events I've been involved with, and described how I would motivate students on my campus to learn about technology. The video was uploaded online and made publicity visible.

  2. An online course on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

    The MSPs should complete one online course on MVA. Being a computer science student, based on my interest I chose "Windows 10 Development for Absolute Beginners."

  3. Windows App

    The final challenge is to solve a real life problem by developing a windows app and make it live on windows app store. After completing these three challenges I was selected as a MSP of my campus.

Windows application

1 Problem I have a wardrobe full of cloths and accessories. Cloths are of different styles, patterns, lengths. I want to chose what I want to wear and accessories that goes with it using my application.
2 Requirements Sorting and listing of Cloths by occassion, color, type, length, catagory and accessories.
3 Features: User input Add items, delete items, tags, descrption of items in attributes like picture, occassion, color, type, length, catagory etc
4 Features: Output List pictures attribute of items
5 Features: Reccomendation On item selection, display accessories that has same tags
6 Algorithms Searching, Selection Sorting, Data structure list
7 Technologies Java, Sql Server, Net beans IDE