Banglalink Grandmaster- Season 3 begins
Banglalink at a press conference yesterday announced the opening of the Grandmaster-season3, the idea generation competition among students for developing best apps.
Project theme of this year is 'Mobile Applications that Make a Difference in People's Lives".
The major selection criteria of the ideas are number of people to be benefitted, innovativeness, user friendliness, technical feasibility and commercial feasibility.
The contest stated receiving entries from yesterday which will end on July 30, giving all prospective participants a long window of time for their idea.
Following the submission stage, the top 15 teams will be short-listed by August 25 and will be groomed and trained for presentation of their projects.
The winner of the Grandmaster will receive Tk 2,00,000 and the 1stand 2nd runners Up will receive Tk 1,50,000 and Tk 1,00,000.00 respectively.
At the event, Shihab Ahmad, chief commercial officer of Banglalink said Grandmaster was wildly successful in the first two years, which is why it is back.
Students willing to participate need to form groups and register and submit their ideas through Banglalink's Facebook fan page 'Banglalinkmela'.
Ahmad also hoped some truly amazing apps will come out through this competition.
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