Everyone is a critic... I've posted quite a few gripes myself, but seldom posted any ideas for fixing anything. Those of you who know me will realize that I believe in plans, outlines, frameworks, or whatever else you want to call it. So, with that, I'm going to post a very rough draft of an ICF or Imagine Cup Framework. A lot of this will be fairly abstract ideas that will allow for the program to mold to a fit as necessary. Also, this will focus solely on the Software Design Competition, no use...

Game Day. Leave Peoria at 6:30 a.m. and head for the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. My initial impression, “so this is what a computer science department is supposed to look like...wow.” My second impression, (download speeds of 2 MB/sec) “I thought hitting over 100 KB/sec was good.” Here's the break-down: Format -- Long and Boring Round 1 We have two rooms with approximately 10 teams in each. We have two judges, one judge short. Each team gets 20 minutes with a...

My team was competing at the round 1 competition for Imagine Cup. The host location: Bradley University; Peoria, IL; The Student Center Grand Ballroom. The schools competing in this competition included Bradley University and Bradley's biggest rival Illinois State University. Event Night: The match-up consists of 4 teams from Bradley and ISU chickened out and sent none claiming not enough time to prepare. So, scratch the earlier comment it was only Bradley fighting Bradley. The event format consisted...