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The Student 2 Business event has been a great success. Thanks to the joint organisers by Singapore Polytechnic Infocomm Club and Microsoft Singapore, over 130 tech-enthusiasts attended the event.
Steven Li and Chia Lin sparked off the presentation with a high note, DreamSpark, believing that the $10,000 worth of Microsoft software can allow every student to develop their interest or potential in IT to the fullest.
DreamSpark gives access to all the fully licensed software to the students. By default, all SP students are granted access to the free software and may log in using their SP's ichat account.
To help students learn the software, the TechNet Virtual Labs and the beneficial Microsoft Student Partners programme are available to students holding a Windows Live ID. An MSP bears a commitment and passion to share their technical knowledge through online and offline interaction with the community. In addition to those expectations, monthly meetings are organised for the MSPs and MSPs have opportunites to interact with the Microsoft professionals directly.
If you're looking to apply for an internship in the Microsoft community, check it out at the Microsoft Students to Business Portal and you might even give your career a head start.
Cheers,
Ren Sen
UPDATE: DreamSpark is available fo SP Students. Sign in with your school e-mail and select SP as your school.
DreamSpark is a student programme from Microsoft. DreamSpark provides student with professional-level developer and design tools (from microsoft) at no charge.
The software provided are:
Interested? Sign up now.
If above link not working, kindly send your admin number, name, course, email address as well as contact number to chialin@student-partners.com.
For more information about the Student 2 Business programme, click here
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