CIS Presents – Microsoft

A student representative from Microsoft came to our school and talked to us about Microsoft’s new program, XNA. XNA is a program that lets you create games that you can play on your Xbox. Doing this normally usually takes hours and hours of difficult coding. With XNA, all of the startup code you would normally have to write is already done for you and putting a game together is very simple. The representative also talked about his job with Microsoft and said the qualifications for being a student representative were that you had to be passionate about technology, outgoing, be a good presenter, and have an intermediate knowledge of .net and visual studio. The benefits were that he got monetary compensation twice a semester and a MSDN universal subscription worth $11,000 that give him access to all Microsoft programs. In addition, being a representative gives him a unique job opportunity because of all of his experience.