Welcoming Andrew Parsons to the US Academic Team

The latest person to join the US Academic Developer Evangelist team is Andrew Parsons. Andrew is moving from the other side of the world (Australia) to work with colleges and universities around the New York City area. He’s been doing that sort of thin Down Under for several years and we’re all pretty excited to have him join the US team.

Andrew talks about the move on his blog at - NYC, here I come!

He also talks about his first big New York City event - NYC Imagine Cup Kick off - Inspiring students to change the world for the better - If you are a college/university student in the NYC area I hope you’ll sign up for Andrew’s event, learn about the Imagine Cup, and welcome him to the States. BTW Andrew is and has been one of the “captains” of the Imagine Cup Game competition so knows a ton about XNA and game development. And of course about the Imagine Cup!

Introducing the Microsoft US Academic Bloggers

I'm part of a group of people at Microsoft who work with academics all across the country. A number of them have active blogs and I thought this might be a good time to introduce them to others. For each blogger I have their name which is hot linked to their blog, a picture, and a link or three to recent posts that I think people will be interested in. I hope you will visit some of these blogs, subscribe to any that look interesting and get some real value from them.

• Bob Familiar is the Director of Academic Evangelism, DPE East Region.

  • Ideas for Citizen-facing Phone Apps
  • Why Windows Phone 7 Makes Sense for MIS Programs
  • Top Curriculum Downloads from Microsoft Faculty Connection

• Tara Walker is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [South East]

  • The Cloud is Open: Windows Azure support for PHP Developer
  • Windows Phone 7 Officially is Here: Ready, Set, Code!

• Lindsay Lindstrom is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [Mid Atlantic]

  • Why Choose Computer Science?

• Edwin Guarin is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [New England]

  • Windows Phone 7 developer resources from the Boston Developer Launch – start building cool apps now!
  • Future Imagine Cup Winners? Fall Tour Part 1

• Alfred Thompson is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [K-12 computer science US-wide]

  • Kodu Programming For Kids
  • Small Basic Curriculum
  • What does your school need?
• Randy Guthrie is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [US-West] 
  • Using Self-Marketing to Maximize Out-of-Class Project Impact on your Resume
  • Halo Reach Launch Party: Lone Tree, CO Microsoft Store
• Sam Stokes is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [Southern California] 
  • Cloud technology is boring? Not if you are into BioInformatics
  • This is a really cool panoramic stitching tool!
• Dan Waters is the Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist [Pacific Northwest] 
  • The benefit of student software competitions
  • 3D Level Editing for Windows Phone 7 Games (#XNA)
• Gautam Reddy is a senior Academic Marketing Manager based in Redmond WA.
  • How can High School Teachers provide students with DreamSpark Software
  • Setting up XNA 3.1 Game Studio and Creator’s Club Academic Memberships from DreamSpark and MSDNAA
  • Imagine Cup IT Challenge Quiz puts you on path to success in 60 minutes

Edwin Guarin Now Blogging

My great friend Edwin Guarin  (aka the Edvandelist) is now blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/edvangelist/. Drop by and wish him well.