Contests & games

Learn new technologies or showcase your talents. These contests offer great opportunities to win prizes and achieve recognition.

• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Worldwide)
• Master the Mainframe 2009 (US & Canada, excluding Quebec)
• The IBM Mainframe Challenge (United Kingdom)
• IBM Taiwan 2009 z Master Contest
• z/Master 2009 Contest (Russia)

Download these games and have fun while you hone your IT skills.

• DB2 Business Game (for SQL skills)
• DB2 Detective Game (for relational database skills)
• CodeRally (real-time programming game for Java skills)
• PowerUp (3-D action game for science and math concepts)
• Robocode (robot battle simulation for Java programming)

Join us in congratulating the winners of our past contests!

• Master the Mainframe Contest Australia 2009
• Master the Mainframe 2008 winners (US & Canada, excluding Quebec)
• Concurso Mainframe Brasil winners
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008 winners (Worldwide)
• Master the Mainframe 2007 winners (US & Canada, excluding Quebec)
• System i Innovation Challenge 2007 winners (Europe & So. Africa)
• System i Innovation Challenge 2007 winners (US & Canada, excluding Quebec)

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