The IBM Master the Mainframe is a competition among the school and college students around the world. During the program participants will win the prizes besides the developing critical skills, those interested applicants who wish to gain new skills in a real-world, enterprise computing environment are highly encouraged to apply.

read about the Mainframes here

details of the program:

Deadline: 31 December 2019

Location: anywhere around the world

Prizes:

• 3 top individual will receive a 1000 Dollar cash educational scholarship
• For those who finished the first part will be donated 1 dollar to a charitable organization
• Those who finished the second part will access exclusively to IBM Z Career Marketplace community earn the industry-recognized digital badge and 150 Dollar will be gifted to the fastest 100 finishers.
• Those who finished the third part will receive a T-shirt and earn an industry-recognized digital badge. Moreover, 2750 dollars of travel stipend to the top 2 individuals from each region.

Additional benefits:

• The program will help the participants to learn fundamentals of the mainframe
• It will have thought participants, how to program with modern languages
• The program will provide the opportunity for the participants to put their skills in the action of a real-world situations.
• Participants will make new skills and can earn more digital badges and great prizes.
• Participants will obtain unprecedented exposure to a wide variety of enterprise systems, software, and products.
• Participants will earn an Enterprise Computing Open Badge to put on your resume or social media pages that the employers can find you easily. Or can you help you to land a job?

Parts of the program:

• Learning the basics like navigating around, creating files and running programs.
• Practicing part, introduction to a variety of programming languages, operating systems, and technologies such as databases and security.
• Real-world, solve real-world challenges using the skills participants learned in the 2^nd

Who can apply:

• School and college students over 13-years old

How to apply:

Applicants can create their accounts here and then complete the parts

Please click here to know more information about the program