• Introduction
• Universities joined the competition
• Students registered for the competition
• The Winners
• Current Status
• Celebration Event

Introduction

On April 2004 Microsoft Egypt has announced a competition between students in universities located in Egypt. The competition is about creating Egyptian Windows Theme that works on Windows XP editions. The best 5 themes from the submitted ones will win an amount of 500 US dollars for each theme.

Universities joined the competition

The following list shows the 10 universities joined the competition:

Students registered for the competition

A number of 47 students from 10 different universities registered for the Egyptian theme competition. Some of them registered as individuals and some as a group to form 32 requests for submitting 32 themes to be included in the competition. The list below shows the students registered the competition and shows the 9 groups/individuals who submitted the theme.

The Winners

After reviewing the submitted themes by Microsoft testing team, the 5 winners were selected from the 9 themes submitted. The below list shows the winning students (2 students formed 1 group and 4 individual students)

First Winner
Mohammed Nour-el-din Mohammed Kamal Mohammed Marwan University: Cairo Faculty: Engineering Year: Third	Mohammad Mostafa Mohammad Ibrahiem Abuzeed University: Cairo Faculty: Engineering Year: Third
Second Winner	Third Winner
Peter Shoukry Attalah University: Cairo Faculty: Engineering Year: Third	Mohamed Abdul Azim Mohamed Ali University: German Faculty: Engineering Year: First
Fourth Winner	Fifth Winner
Karim Ayman Mohamed Shawqi Kahla University: Cairo Faculty: Engineering Year: Third	Rana Raouf Hassan Farag University: German Faculty: Engineering Year: First

Current Status

First theme (Egyptian Nile Theme) has been released and available for download from Microsoft download website. The remaining 4 themes are finalizing with legal and in the process of approving from development team to be released.

The Nile Theme can be downloaded from here.

Celebration Event

Celebration took place on December 7th, 2004 in the .NET University Program Graduation Ceremony at the Semiramis Intercontinental (Heliopolis) with the attending of H.E Dr. Amr Salama Minister of High Education and Scientific Research. Also Universities president and most of faculties’ staff were attending the ceremony. Television and press were present on this day as well.

H.E Dr. Amr Salama was admired by the winning themes and met all the winners who explained each one theme and his/her vision of the graphic added and theme different parts.

Winners were given their rewards money along with the certificate of excellence to each one.

Winners taking picture with H.E Dr. Amr Salama Minister if High Education and Scientific Research and with Karim Ramadan General Manager of Microsoft Egypt.

From Left: Mohamed Mostafa (winner), Karim Ayman (winner), Peter Shoukry (winner), Wael Shawky (Project Manager – Microsoft Product Groups), Karim Ramadan (General Manager – Microsoft Egypt), H.E Dr. Amr Salama (Minister of High Education and Scientific Research), Mohamed Abdul Azim (winner), Mohamed Nour (winner), Rana Raouf (winner)

Winners taking picture on stage with Prof Dr. Abdalla Barakat Secretary General Supreme Council of Universities Karim Ramadan General Manager of Microsoft Egypt and members of High Education managements.

From Left: Rana Raouf (winner), Mohamed Mostafa (winner), Karim Ayman (winner), Prof. Dr. Maher El-Domiaty (President of Zagazig University), Prof. Dr. Abdalla Barakat (Secretary General - Supreme Council of Universities), Karim Ramadan (General Manager – Microsoft Egypt), Mohamed Alaa (Developer Evangelist – Microsoft Egypt), Mohamed Abdul Azim (winner), Mohamed Nour (winner), Peter Shoukry (winner)

Disclaimer

All information, names and pictures included in this page are provided as it is submitted by the students. Pictures were added based on winner's approval.