Presentation of Projects in Various Engineering Competitions for Students Zlatko Čović 1 , Janoš Šimon 1 , Igor Fürstner 2 , Eva Pataki 3 Subotica Tech – College of Applied Sciences 1 Department of Informatics 2 Department of Mechatronics 3 Department of Technical Communication Management Subotica, Serbia chole@vts.su.ac.rs, simon@vts.su.ac.rs, ifurst@vts.su.ac.rs, peva@vts.su.ac.rs Abstract— This paper presents various student projects from competitions in different fields of engineering science and technologies. Students of Subotica Tech – College of Applied Sciences participated in a number of contests and competitions. Basic concepts of the realized projects are presented. These competitions can be divided into two groups: first, when the scope is known but the requirement is to create innovative and usable project and the second, when a problem is given and it has to be solved it. Keywords— student competition, ideas, project, challenge; I. INTRODUCTION Companies which are involved in technical development, usually organize competitions for students and innovative people. Beside the company, the whole process engages professors-mentors and students, and sometimes sponsors, which are other companies or civil organizations. All of them participate in the process, with the aim of providing the best solution for the given task with the best approaches [1]. Involving students in such competitions is a challenge for professors as well as the students. Professors need to encourage and motivate students. Students need to convince themselves that these competitions are good for acquiring new skills in various fields of engineering and science. In most cases, the awards are not the main motivation for participation, it is rather acquisition of new knowledge, friendship, team work and real life projects that are decisive. The Second chapter gives some information about competitions of students from Subotica Tech. The third chapter provides some insight into the Imagine Cup competition and presents the most significant projects. In the fourth chapter the competition “Electromobil” is presented. The fifth chapter is dedicated to all other competitions and conferences where the College’s students participated. Projects that are described in this paper are mostly from the fields of computer science and electrical engineering. II. COMPETITIONS FOR STUDENTS In recent years the students of Subotica Tech – College of Applied Sciences have taken part in numerous contests. Subotica Tech is college that has 5 study programs: Informatics (with two modules), Electrical engineering (with two modules), Mechanical engineering (with two modules), Mechatronics and Technical Communication Management. This is an optimal situation with regard to students participating in various competitions, since it is likely that teams will consist of students from different study programs, which contributes to good cooperation within the team. These competitions are an opportunity for hardworking students to test their abilities to learn new technologies and to implement their knowledge working on different projects within different teams. Before, during and after the competition, students receive a great practical experience in some areas of engineering life. III. IMAGINE CUP Imagine Cup is a global student technology program and competition that provides opportunities for students across all disciplines to team up and use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology to create applications, games and integrates solutions that can change the way we live, work and play. Open to students around the world, the competition spans one year, beginning with national and online competitions, and culminating at the World Finals, which is hosted in a different country every year [2]. In the beginning of Imagine Cup, competitors had to solve one of problems that are defined in millennium goals; education, diseases, help for people with special needs, ecology, and environmental problems. Projects should be realized mainly with the use of Microsoft technologies on different Microsoft platforms. The competition consists of several phases, and each of them is am elimination phase. The name of this competition category was Software development [1]. In recent years new competition categories were defined as: Games, Innovation, World Citizenship, Break into Code, Code Hunt etc. A. Eco Volunteer This was the project that the students from Subotica Tech started their career with in the Imagine Cup competition. The aim of the Eco Volunteer project was to help solving the problem of garbage and illegal dumps. As human society is becoming more and more developed, mankind produces more garbage. It is a huge problem by itself, but it is more serious