IBA Computer Society has been arranging the IBA ProBattle for the last 4 years. This tech olympiad is one of its kind in providing a challenging platform to the creative tech enthusiasts so that they exhibit their skills by participating in a range of competitions.
The IBA ProBattle 2017 is determined to take place from 3rd to 5th March, 2017 at IBA’s main campus in Karachi.
To make this year’s event even bigger and better, the organizers have put in all of their efforts to expand not only the array of competitions, but to also raise the bar for the competing participants. With the collaboration of various institutes like IBM, Peekabu Guru and Hamid Adamjee Trust, the event is expected to exceed 1800 registrations.
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To boost and develop the tech olympiad even further, IBA ProBattle 2017 is collaborating for the first time, with IT industry giants: FAST and IBA. FAST has been announced as an Academic Partner for the event.
This Year’s Theme Competitions
The registration is open for a total of 18 competitions divided on the basis of the following themes:
CS/IT Competitions, Designing Competitions, Gaming Competitions, Business Competitions and General/Logic Competitions.
Furthermore, the organizers are planning to introduce two new competitions this year. It includes ‘Mobile App development’ for app designers who would develop apps on a particular theme and ‘Game Jam’ in which game developers would create a game there and then in a specified period of time. To enhance the potential of the business idea competition, and to challenge the aspiring startup ecosystem entrants even more, the competition rules have been redesigned. These new rules will provide new challenges for the participants.
Here is the complete list of the competitions:
- Business Idea
- Speed Programming
- RoboWars: Mindstorm
- Data Analytics
- Logic & Poster
- Photography
- Database Design
- Web Development
- Software Exhibition
- FIFA
- DOTA 2
- Network Design
- Game Development
- RoboWars: Real Steel
- Logic Hunt
- Pseudo Code
- Mortal Kombat X
- Mobile App Development
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Registration and Awards
While sharing his view on the types of expected participants to incur in IBA PRoBAttle 2017, Executive Director of Publication, Hisham Sajid stated:
“Whether you’re a casual gamer, a coding aficionado or someone who generally likes spending a lot of time behind a computer screen, ProBattle’17 has a little bit of something for everyone”
Additionally, a massive amount of PKR 550,000 would be awarded to the winning team this year. For registration in any of the above mentioned competitions, visit www.probattle.iba.edu.pk and buy your PKR 1000 worth ticket from their brand ambassadors.
Hurry up! The registration closes today, 28th February!
