IoT Spartans - 2017 edition - A Libelium initiative to identify and give public recognition to the best Universities and IoT developers THE BEST PREPARED WILL BE THE MOST IN DEMAND FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT
"By 2020 there will be 50 billion of connected devices but... will there be enough developers?" Who is going to build the projected 50 billion connected devices and Internet of Things systems slated to come online by the year 2020? Libelium is throwing down the gauntlet to empower the future IoT workforce by promoting electronics skills in universities and high schools, offering specialized trainings and a contest to rank and reward the most promising developers and their educators. With technology advancing at a rapid clip, Libelium s IoT Spartans challenge intends to bridge the gap between the skills today s employers need and the career development of a new, emerging IoT workforce whose products and services will touch every sector of the global economy. Education is one of Libelium strategic pillars right now and we are certainly committed to help education market and future developers. With the IoT Spartans Challenge we are helping universities, colleges and high schools train and guide the future workers who will build and run IoT projects and long term deployments, and giving them recognition for their efforts, so THE BEST PREPARED WILL BE THE MOST IN DEMAND FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT. 2
Enrolled Universities I II III V IV VI Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Università degli studi di Pavia VII 3
What is the IoT Spartans Challenge? The IoT Spartans Challenge is an educational program to identify, promote and give public recognition to the best future IoT developers. Universities are key in IoT future since they are producing tomorrow s developers. That is why we want to work closely with them making teacher s life easier: We offer our 2 day workshops designed to give teachers a fast and comprehensive introduction to wireless technologies, sensors and connectivity to cloud platforms used in IoT. We provide hardware and kits to teach and/or research with special discounts for Educational Institutions. We include more than 400 code examples and more around 60 technical guides to easily create a syllabus with free access. We provide free access to our forum to support teachers for solving student s questions. We provide further discounts on the IoT Spartans Challenge Waspmote kits for the students of the participating Educational Institutions. The IoT Spartans Challenge is an open competition available for individuals and educational institutions. Libelium offers to Universities: The proud to be worldwide recognized as top University in IoT training. Worldwide promotion of the University through Social Media and Libelium PR tools. Logo in the IoT Spartans website. 1 attendee place in a 2-day training course to be held in Libelium headquarters. Special discounts for Universities. Further discount on the IoT Spartans Challenge Waspmote kits for students. UNIVERSITIES PARTICIPATE IN THE CHALLENGE Promoting the contest through students to register at www.iot-spartans.com. Providing a classroom to attend the webinars. Acquiring Libelium hardware to practice after lessons. Searching for a sponsor: Enrolled Universities can finance their participation searching for a private company or a public institution interested in sponsoring them (read more in page 10). 4
Step by step by process 1 2 Registration period for: Individuals Universities Sponsors Free webinars for students to complete online that will allow them to earn points. 3 Online ranking with the top 300 IoT Spartans to promote the list on the IoT market. 4 The top three developers will win cash prizes ranging from 500 to 3,000 for individuals, and the highestranking educational institution will win 5,000 in equipment. 5 Educational institutions interested in participating can join the IoT Spartans Challenge fulfilling the registration request at: www.iot-spartans.com/institution-registration * With your registration, you will receive a user ID and password to follow the webinar on the MOOC. Additionally, if you want to buy your own Waspmote Kit - IoT Spartans Challenge, you will receive a discount code. Waspmote Kit - IoT Spartans Challenge, includes the new Waspmote V15! With this open source platform, you will be able to read data from sensors, to interact with actuators and perform wireless communications by Xbee. Everything you need to design your own Internet of Things project! 470-399.50 DISCOVER THE KIT 5
Timeline The envisaged timeline of the IoT Spartans Challenge will be as follows: 15 th june 2017-15 th JULY 2017. SUMMER SCHOOL. The contest opens with some introductory chapters to warm-up for the challenge. 1 st JANUARY 2017-1 ST SEPTEMBER 2017. REGISTRATION Free online registration period for individuals participants and universities. 15 th SEPTEMBER 2017-30 th NOVEMBER, 2017. CHALLENGE Webinars, online quiz, tests, etc. Provisional rankings will be published every month on the website. 15 th DECEMBER 2017. FINAL RANKING Publication of the final ranking and prize-winners on the website. 6
How does it work? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Participants will register their profiles before 1 st June 2016 at http://www.iot-spartans.com Libelium will give free webinars to explain concepts of the Internet of Things using Waspmote as the IoT platform. After the webinars, there will be several online exams to allow the participants answering with the new knowledge they have learned. A ranking of the top 300 IoT Spartans will be published at the end of the contest. The top three developers will win cash prizes ranging from 500 to 3,000 Euros for individuals, and the highest-ranking educational institution will win 5,000 Euros in equipment from the Libelium catalogue. The final ranking will be promoted through Press Release, Newsletter and Social Networks to spread the results worldwide. 7
Prizes: individual participants The top three developers with the highest score obtained in different tests will win the following cash prizes: 3.000 1.500 500 Libelium will make its best efforts to promote the 300 IoT Spartans list among its worldwide distribution network, partners and recruiters. 8
Prizes: universities The highest-ranking educational institution will win 5,000 Euros in equipment from the Libelium catalogue and will get public recognition through Libelium PR tools. 5.000 This ranking will be calculated by adding up the scores obtained by all the participants from any given Educational Institution registered with the IoT Spartans Challenge who have ranked among the top 300 Spartans. 9
Promotion program for students Become an IoT spartans ambassador Help us to enroll your University or Educational Center in the IoT Spartans Challenge. How? 1 Technology, engineering and electronics students can nominate their professors and teachers to participate as IoT Spartans Ambassadors. 2 Download this brochure on the website and send it to your professor by email copying in cc our Education KAM (iot-spartans@libelium.com). 3 As soon as he or she contacts us on behalf of you, you will receive the IoT Ambassador Box with a T-shirt and Spartans stickers. That easy! (Limited units) 4 Besides, we will draw one IoT Student Kit among all the IoT Ambassadors. To become an IoT Spartans Ambassador visit our website: www.iot-spartans.com/iot-spartans-ambassador 10
Promotion program for universities Become an IoT Spartans Sponsor Universities and Schools interested in participating in the contest can search for a private company or a public institution to sponsor them to access to the Challenge: 1 If your University need help to afford the order of the kits, it is possible to search for an IT Company to become Special Sponsor. 2 Libelium will provide to Sporsors the public recognition on the website and in all the communications related to the contest (newsletters, press releases and rankings). 3 The Sponsor will also obtain direct access to best developers rankings to recruit the best students. Terms and conditions: The Sponsor company will assume the cost of the invoice to acquire Libelium Hardware to practice after lessons in name of one University or School. The sponsor company will provide the logo to be published on the website and on all press materials linked to the Internet profile company. 11
Promotion program for cloud partners Become an IoT Spartans collaborator This year we open the opportunity to participate in the IoT Spartans Challenge to any Cloud partner from Libelium Ecosystem. How to participate? Follow these steps: 1 Producing a Webinar explaining how the platform works and it will be integrated at the end of the lessons. 2 Sending us your logo to be included in the official website and other communication tools of the educational program. 3 Providing specific contact with professors and teachers from Universities to promote the program directly from Libelium. 4 Giving a prize for the three winners related to the business core of the company. Libelium s Ecosystem Interoperability for the IoT 12
Appendix: 2016 edition of the IoT Spartans Challenge Enrolled universities 13
Appendix: 2016 edition of the IoT Spartans Challenge the challenge in figures 1.200 worlwide participants 10 enrolled universities I II College of Nyíregyháza 1 gold sponsor: Microsoft 8 webinars to learn III IV KLE Society s B. V. Bhoomaraddi. College of Engineering and Technology 8 tests to answer Only 103 spartans ended the challenge More than 250 media impacts in education, IoT and technological worldwide webs 23.500 visits to The IoT Spartans website in 9 months (from November 2015 to July 2016) V VII VI VIII Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá 400 mentions in social media IX X Cyprus Research & Innovation Center Sponsored by: 14
Appendix: 2016 edition of the IoT Spartans Challenge 2016 winners emanuele goldoni italy khaled brahem tunisia sergio lópez spain The first edition of the IoT Spartans Challenge has been an engaging game, and the competition motivated me to learn more about emerging communication technologies for the Internet of Things. I m sure that what I have discovered about LoRa, Sigfox, and Bluetooth LE will be crucial for my career in the forthcoming years. Moreover, the exams were non trivial at all, and the available time for each quiz was limited: hence, I see IoT Spartans Challange also as a good opportunity to prepare yourself for a technical job interview on these topics Emanuele Goldoni 15
Appendix: 2016 edition of the IoT Spartans Challenge MEDIA IMPACTS PROMOTING THE CHALLENGE AND WINNERS 16