DCIS Students on Dean's List and Honor Roll ('09)

Congratulations to the following DCIS students who achieved academic excellence and made it to this year's Dean's List and Honor Roll:

Dean's List
Magna Cum Laude (3.70-3.89)

• Abigail Foster
• Yvonne Ricketts
  

Cum Laude (3.50-3.69)

• Shellaine Campbell
• Rion Jefferson
• Flexie Muirhead
  

Honor Roll (3.00-3.49)

• Anthony Anglin
• Shanae Clarke
  
• Dewight Flinch
• Dudley Hugg
• Elyandra Hylton
• Dwight Johnson
• Alex Lewis
• Cornel Lewis
• Marja Malcolm
• Kadeen Nelson
• Le-Vaughn Roper
• Christine Swaby
• Chevanese Thomas
• Ricardo Thompson
  

ServerQuest II

Do you remember playing the vintage computers games King's Quest or Leisure Suit Larry? If so, you should enjoy Microsoft TechNet's ServerQuest II game. It emulates the same sort of pixilated graphics and cheesy humor as those classics, but it's aimed at IT professionals and computer specialists.

In the game, which is created with Silverlight and runs in your browser, you play an IT pro (either Matt or Alicia) whose objective is to keep the network running smoothly while encountering a host of technical problems that are presented as games and puzzles, ranging from the absurd to things you might encounter in the real life of an IT pro. As you work through the tasks, you'll learn about and use Microsoft technologies to solve problems, encounter hidden Easter Eggs, earn geek points, and get to post your high scores for others to compete against. The game is really very humorous -- and you might even learn some interesting troubleshooting techniques as you play.

Writing the Imagine Cup Proposal

A proposal is simply a description of what your project is and how you and your team will go about it. The proposal should be no more than 4 pages long and should include, but may not need four main the following, a Problem Definition, an Overview, Technologies Used, and your System Architecture.

The outline below gives suggestions on what can go into a proposal. Your proposal does not have to look like the outline below, for example any sub-header may be a main header. However you may write your proposal this outline may help you by giving you a starting point. Please note that the outline below is not a proposal, it is only an outline of a proposal.

• Cover
• Title


• Team Name
• Project Name
• Team Members
• Contact Info


• Intro
• What is this document for?
• What to expect in this document?


• Problem Definition
• What is the problem you are trying to solve
• How you plan to solve it
• Brief description of project
• Generally how it works
• Who will benefit
• How your project applies to this year's Imagine Cup Theme


• Technologies/software/tools
• Any tools you might use in your project


• System Architecture
• A description of your architecture
• A visual representation of your architecture