Contest

I like contests - even when I don’t have the skills to enter them. Residents of Canada and the U.S. are eligible.
The challenge:
Create cool software and/or hardware add-ins for Windows Home Server to simplify the digital lifestyles of families everywhere—or just to geek out.
We are looking for creative use of a server as a [...]

Only in Canada you say? Pity!
Be one of three winners in the ultimate competition to find the latest, greatest Canadian Windows Vista gadget. Can your gadget withstand the competition?
Prove your mettle and steely resolve by building the next coolest gadget. Show your fellow developers what you’ve got. Score serious bragging rights—not to mention wicked prizes [...]

The competition’s overview page is here
One world. Unlimited possibilities.
Let’s face it — the world needs help. The kind of help that happens when you take the top young minds from around the globe and turn them loose on solving the world’s toughest problems. That’s what the Imagine Cup is all about. This is your chance [...]

ENTRY FORM
How can we better experience this world of ours at the cross roads of human impacts and climate change? How can we best communicate these experiences, particularly in light of the major changes Earth now faces, as one world? How can we most compellingly understand and communicate those experiences and processes? [...]