with an opportunity to work alongside world-class scientists in the leading industrial IT research organization. The competition is open to any full-time student enrolled in a Master's or Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Service Science at the time of application. The Challenge All potential teams require one faculty member and can be consisted of members from juniors and seniors. The first phase consists of developing a quality Software Requirement Specification document. Other considerations include technology, use of XML, quality code, and design tools are given scores based upon the usage. The second phase includes the support of regional languages and portability issues of the software developed regarding functionality, User Interface, and output. A face to face evaluation round is carried out by IBM for the top 300 projects. The evaluation round is attended by the entire team and interviewed by IBM personnel. The Academic Initiative provides resources such as free software download, online tutoring, discussion boards, training seminars and IBM mentors to guide teams through the process of the competition. The top 20 teams are invited every year to attend the closing ceremony where the winners from India are announced. The Top 3 projects are kept in a special category called TGMC "HALL OF FAME" whereupon the team's work and their names are kept in permanent records of IBM. All the Top-20 teams are awarded prizes based upon their rank. Тhe Haifa, Dublin and Zurich program, is open to students enrolled in a Master's or PhD program in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, software engineering, industrial engineering, and service science in central or eastern Europe, the Middle East or Afric Awards and recognition TGMC has been awarded the Limca Book of Records award for the largest student competition for engineering students, with approximately 1,10,000 participants from over 1,000 colleges in 2010. IBM Developer works the site that lead to successful discovery of knowledge on IBM tools for TGMC is declared as the largest used e-learning system in India by Limca book of records for the year 2011. Past winners Outstanding Performing College/Institute Maharishi Arvind Institute of Science and Management, Jaipur under the leadership of D.P. Sharma was awarded 8th time continuously from 2005–2013 in the category of the Best Performing College in India. Later, DP Sharma got a Grant Award and nominated as National Academic Ambassador (AI) for Cloud Computing offering by