Pradeesh Chandran |
Bangalore
January 25, 2013
Last Updated at 16:29 IST
LearnStreet announces the India Coding Challenge
Universities can compete to win internship programme
Online education platform, LearnStreet, founded by Vinod Khosla has announced launch of the India Coding Challenge (ICC) for engineering colleges across the country. The winners of the competition will get opportunity to win internships with LearnStreet, the company said.
Apart from the internship programme, the winners will also get an ICC Cup which will be awarded by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and LearnStreet.
“The ICC has been designed to promote coding skills in India and to excite students and help them build employable skills at an early age. LearnStreet will award internships to the top three colleges with the most CodePoints at the end of the competition on January 31, 2013,” a statement from LearnStreet said.
Vinod Khosla, founder of LearnStreet, said: “Online education is the next big thing in the education domain and has thus co-founded LearnStreet to take on this opportunity.”
The engineering students who are interested in participating the competition can sign up at www.learnstreet.com/icc.
