Cheng Lei

Due to over whelming response for the Kinect + Developer conference held in National University of Singapore, we have decided to host a “Live” Streaming of the event. This is once in a lifetime chance for you to directly interact and hear first-hand from them with Kinect experts from Microsoft Research. The conference will be stream from 2.15pm – 4pm, with a short 10 minutes break in between them. Flow of event ...

We had many developers coming down to the Microsoft Singapore venue to compete in the Nokia X-Calibre Hackathon conducted by Nokia Singapore on 19 November 2011. Everyone is busy coding and polishing our their best Windows Phone 7 Application for the competition within a short period of 15 hours. They were all working on application for the Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named “Mango”) using the 7.1 SDK. In the Microsoft Singapore venue, we had 4 Windows Phone 7 Champs assisting the competitors to answer technical and design issues during the competition. 3 of those Windows Phone 7 Champs are also Microsoft Student Partners - Kin Seng, Kim and myself. Lots of awesome applications were completed during the competition, I shall update on the screenshots and results later as judging is still going on. ...

Last Saturday, it had been a happening weekend at Microsoft Singapore. The Microsoft Student Partners hosted yet another great event organised by youth for youth - TEDx Youth @ Singapore in the Microsoft Auditorium. Students from different walks of life from Secondary Schools to Universities coming down together to hear from numerous speakers to share their knowledge and thoughts all revolving around the theme for this year’s conference - IDEA + ACTION. This year’s conference had aim to let students be able to explore and express how youths today see things and do things in their own special way. It also hopes to encourage students in putting their dreams into actions and make it happen! ...

On 9th November 2011, Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) have organised another awesome event – techfest @ Singapore Polytechnic. Making this the 1st ever Microsoft Techfest for IHLs in Singapore. In this event, we have over 1,000 students in Singapore Polytechnic attended and hear various representive from Microsoft. The team of MSPs decided to go all out on marketing effort from having posters with all around the school to distributing balloons at all the Food courts in Singapore Polytechnic. The entire school was filled with posters and balloon in lecture halls, walkways – practically any spot that you could think off! Students are also treated with music from Deejays, Kinects try-out, popcorn, candy floss etc. It’s just impossible to write those excitement and passion we felt on that day in words! ...

The Windows Phone Marketplace have been ever growing since the date it was launch. In this growing bulk of application, we found many student developers who have come out with awesome applications. I am going to share one of the application, ToiletPaperGame application developed by Wong Kin Seng, one of our Microsoft Student Partners from Temasek Polytechnic. His application have recieved wonderful response from the users worldwide and to date, it have reach up to 1.9K download in just one month. Kin Seng shared with us on what inspired him and how easy was it to develop on Windows Phone 7. ...

Want to be part of the 1st ever TechFest in SP? Want to be part of an event filled with fun and laughter? Want to find out what’s next for technology? Come join us now at TechFest @ Singapore Polytechnic, where regional speakers will be sharing their point of views for the future. Our guest speakers include Ziriad Saibi, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE), Microsoft Singapore, and Vincent Quah, DPE Academic and New Markets Lead, Microsoft Asia Pacific. Hear from them first-hand. Join us now and stand a chance to win attractive prizes such as Xbox Kinect, Arc touch mouse and many more! This event is open to all Singapore Polytechnic Students, please register at http://bit.ly/sptechfest. For any enquiries, please contact the organising team via sp@student-partners.com.sg. Another event by Microsoft Student Partners Singapore