I was made aware of this competition recently.
There's several categories, but the game development one seems most interesting to me.
Make a game using XNA Game Studio 2.0 or XNA 3.0
The theme is "Solve the world's toughest problems" yikes...
Grand prize is $25,000. That's a lot of beer money.
Imagine Cup - Home page
http://imaginecup.com/Default.aspx
Imagine Cup - Game Development category
http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycom ... itionId=21
Imagine Cup 2009 - $25,000 Game development compo
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