14 New Microsoft Innovation Centers In India To Train Students
Indian engineering students are well known for their innovation skills and Microsoft is acknowledging them by opening 14 Microsoft Innovation Centers (MICs) accross the country. Microsoft has signed MoUs with leading academic institutions of four states namely Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Tamil Nadu targeting over 100,000 students.
Microsoft Innovation Center is a world wide program currently having 75 MICs all around the globe. Microsfot targets to launch 100 MICs in India in next 2 years. MICs will work as the center of student research and innovation at the selected institutes. Each center will act as a hub for five other neighbor engineering colleges in order to attract more students to the program. The first 14 cities to host MICs, starting next week, are Hyderabad, Vijaywada, Rajahmundry, Khammam, Bapatla, Guntur and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Raipur in Chattisgarh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Trichy, Vellore, Coimbatore, Madurai and Selam in Tamil Nadu.
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MICs will train students to innovate in newly developing technologies namely Mobility (Windows Phone), Cloud (Windows Azure), Kinect, Accessibility and Healthcare. They also promise to offer a unique environment for student entrepreneurship. Microsoft already has  a program named Microsoft Spark which provide different certification courses. If you think, you have an innovator hidden in you somewhere, go ahead, this is your chance!
Microsoft Innovation Center is a world wide program currently having 75 MICs all around the globe. Microsfot targets to launch 100 MICs in India in next 2 years. MICs will work as the center of student research and innovation at the selected institutes. Each center will act as a hub for five other neighbor engineering colleges in order to attract more students to the program. The first 14 cities to host MICs, starting next week, are Hyderabad, Vijaywada, Rajahmundry, Khammam, Bapatla, Guntur and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Raipur in Chattisgarh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Trichy, Vellore, Coimbatore, Madurai and Selam in Tamil Nadu.
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MICs will train students to innovate in newly developing technologies namely Mobility (Windows Phone), Cloud (Windows Azure), Kinect, Accessibility and Healthcare. They also promise to offer a unique environment for student entrepreneurship. Microsoft already has  a program named Microsoft Spark which provide different certification courses. If you think, you have an innovator hidden in you somewhere, go ahead, this is your chance!
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