We had a very special HackWeekend on National Day which saw several quality apps and the first meet up of the year for the Microsoft Student Partners team. It was definitely an amazing experience to have a chat with the mixture of developers and students with a flow of brilliant ideas, with everyone mingling with each other.

The day started off with the Microsoft Student Partner Kick-off for FY13, where we were introduced to the responsibilities and perks of a MSP by Yizhe, our Academic Developer Evangelist.

After the briefing, we had a short prize presentation to our Champ Programme Graduates who all received Xbox 360 consoles.

We then had an amazing buffet lunch and time to talk with each other in preparation for Dream . Build . Launch. Terence also brought us all on a tour of the Microsoft Technology Center.

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The demonstrated apps this HackWeekend were much more polished than the first  and second. It’s definitely encouraging to see the hard work developers are putting into their apps, working towards the launch of Windows 8 this October.

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Once that was over, we had a Live Telecast of the National Day Parade where everyone gathered around the screens that were set up while we ate dinner.

 

As the day drew to a close, we had a brilliant view of the National Day fireworks from our window.

 

 

  Our Hackweekends are coming to a close - but you can still work on your Windows 8 applications. Look out for our upcoming events!