IBA ProBattle’17, one of the biggest Tech Olympiads of Pakistan to organize on March 3rd

For the last 4 years, IBA Computer Society is arranging an IBA ProBattle to provide a competitive platform for the creative minds. The partakers will showcase their technology skills by participating in lots of competitions.

This year’s edition, IBA ProBattle’17 is planned to be held from March 3^rd, 2017 to March 5^th, 2017 at the Main Campus of IBA, Karachi.

Aiming to go over 1800 registrations this year, the organizing team is struggling hard make the edition of this year bigger as well as better.

The team has also partnered along with the prominent names including IBM, Peekaboo Guru and Hamid Adamjee Trust and many more.

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In order to increase partnerships and collaborations, IBA ProBattle’17 for the first time ever, is joining hands along with FAST to make this Tech Olympiad better as compared to before.

FAST is acting as an Academic Partner for this event.

Total 18 competitions are open for registrations which have been divided according to the following themes:

1.       CS/IT Competitions

2.       Designing Competitions

3.       Gaming Competitions

4.       Business Competitions &

5.       General/Logic Competitions

Building upon the legacy, the directors have decided to introduce 2 new competitions this year.

First one is the ‘Mobile App Development’ for all those app-making enthusiasts who will design a prototype on a particular theme.

The second one is ‘Game Jam’ for all game-development lovers who will make a game on-the-spot in the given period of time.

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Moreover, rules for the Business Idea competition have also been overhauled to bring it up to pace along with the present startup ecosystem, providing partakers new and bold challenges.

The complete list of competitions is given below:

1.       Business Idea

2.       Speed Programming

3.       RoboWars: Mindstorm

4.       Data Analytics

5.       Logic & Poster

6.       Photography

7.       Database Design

8.       Web Development

9.       Software Exhibition

10.   FIFA

11.   DOTA 2

12.   Network Design

13.   Game Development

14.   RoboWars: Real Steel

15.   Logic Hunt

16.   Pseudo Code

17.   Mortal Kombat X

18.   Mobile App Development

The prize money for the edition of this year has been set at a huge PKR 550,000 for the winning teams.