Use Your Silverlight Skills to Win a Pass to MIX

The Silverlight Show web site is hosting a contest that can help you get a pass to MIX and/or get some travel expenses paid! Several Silverlight community leaders and our own Expression Evangelist, Adam Kinney, are judging the entries. Get your entries in by Feb 15th, 2010 by registering for the contest here.

What Can I Win?

I love contests, especially when the prizes rock! The Silverlight Show web site is hosting a great contest where you can use your Silverlight skills and win some great prizes that including passes to MIX! Here are the details for the prizes that I pulled from their web site:

Our Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas (MIX10 pass, 3-night hotel stay at Mandalay Bay Hotel and 1,000 USD for travel expenses included), and Telerik Premium Collection for .NET! Two more MIX10 passes and more awards from Telerik await the first runner-up, and the Community Choice winner! Read more on the prizes.

How do I Win?

The contest asks participants to create a Silverlight application that helps support any kind of eco friendly activity. I copied this from the contest rules section of the web site:

We invite you to use your Silverlight skills and imagination to design attractive, educative and informative Silverlight-based applications that help support and promote any kind of environment-friendly activities. Read the Official Rules of our green contest!

What about those discounts for MIX?

Glad you asked! Don’t forget today is the last day for the $600 discount and free hotel night.

If you register by Friday January 15th you get a free hotel night at the Mandalay Bay(for a 3 night stay) and get $600 off your MIX10 pass! So go register now before this expires in 2 days: http://live.visitmix.com/Registration