In a previous post i told you that i’m first in my county at the informatics competition:

…my informatics professor told me to go to an informatics competition where the best from my county i web development and programming will be there. I participated at the technical section.

After waiting 3 hours to get in i finished the test in 20 minutes, and went for a walk with my girlfriend. I didn’t wait for the results because i was VERY pissed because i had to stay in line for 3 hours.

On friday on my way to electronics class professors started congratulating me. Later i found out that i’m first at the contest and that between 23-25 may i’m going to the national section of the contest. Of course all expenses are supported by them.

Yesterday i had to go and talk to the informatics professor who gave me more details about the competition. As said before it will be held at Cluj between 23-25 may. In order to participate all contestants have to create a project which is no way related to webdesign and development neither to IT&C, but mostly to philosophy.

The topic is TIME - EGO - VALUES which should be a multimedia project.

How the project is evaluated:

- The idea of the project should be in in consonance with the topic of the project.

- Usage only of own materials and resources

- Artistic achievement (the harmony of colors, mix sound-image, animation)

- The way information is structured

- User friendly interface, usability.

- Accurate technique (technical, resolution)

- Presenting the application: written documentation (paper presentation, user guide, bibliography etc), installer

To say it straight this is bullshit. What the hell has philosophy has to do with informatics or IT&C or web development? NOTHING! The topic of the project consists in 3 freakin’ words and the organizers think that people will stay a week and figure out what exactly is required by them.

I talked to my philosophy professor who gave me a weird look and it took him a time to understand that this is an informatics competition and not a philosophy one. He suggested that i make an autobiographical presentation in powerpoint, and i think i will stick to that idea and if i make it to the 3rd phase of the contest then i will present it. If the organizers won’t like it it’s their problem.

This really bugs me…why the hell couldn’t they make up a topic like create a web page or create a poster or i don’t know what, something thats actually IT related. They put a great accent on the content of the project. Anyone can write a random text related to the topic, this will only prove that the contestant has writing abilities and in the future he may be a good writer.

But who knows? Maybe i won’t make it to the 3rd phase and will fall out at first(i doubt it, but if i get pissed enough then i’ll hand in the test the way i got it), at least then il have more time to hang out with some friends from Cluj.

There are some pretty hardcore sponsors and i’m pretty curious about the prizes:

You probably know some of the above shown brands, google those which you don’t know

Now that i got to the end of my post i’m not as mad as before because now i know that you as a reader will feel a bit like i felt when i found out the topic. One thing’s for sure I’ll go to have fun and not to get pissed.