If you’ve developed – or are currently developing – a BlackBerry® WebWorks™, Adobe® AIR®, or Native Gaming app for the BlackBerry® platform, bring your app to AppCircus at BlackBerry® 10 Jam and work with RIM experts on-site to port it to the BlackBerry 10 platform. You could win $25,000 to see your favorite bands! (Winners will have up to a year to use the prize.) In order to participate in the contest, ensure you register your application with AppCircus by April 29th and attend BlackBerry 10 Jam in Orlando! If you enter now, you can get some tips for building and pitching to help you prepare for the event at BlackBerry 10 Jam.

After you’ve had a chance to tweak your apps for BlackBerry 10, you’ll pitch your app to a panel of RIM and AppCircus judges where the top three applications from each category – BlackBerry WebWorks, Adobe AIR and Native Gaming – will move on to the finals. AppCircus and RIM experts will be on hand to help these finalists perfect their presentation and apps in preparation for the finals. Finalists have a three-minute pitch and two-minute question and answer on stage, and winners are chosen by a jury. One winner in each of the three categories will receive the grand prize. Each grand prize is worth up to $25,000 USD for you and your friends to see your favorite bands throughout the year!

The prize package includes:

• $10,000 USD cash award to purchase concert tickets and to be used as spending money for you and your friends
• $15,000 USD Travel Voucher (booked through RIM’s agent) to purchase airline tickets, hotel reservations and ground transportation for you and your friends to attend the concerts in cities where you’ve purchased concert tickets

To find out more details on the AppCircus at BlackBerry 10 Jam contest and to view full terms and conditions please visit http://blackberry10jam.appcircus.com.

We’re looking forward to seeing you and your apps at BlackBerry 10 Jam – good luck!

Are you a game developer in New York City or San Francisco? Want to learn how to develop games for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet using the BlackBerry® Native SDK for Tablet OS? Well, then this is the contest for you!

We are offering developers the chance to win a spot (12 spots available at each location – check out the official terms and conditions) at an intense, two day, hands-on training program in San Francisco (March 28/29) or New York City (April 9/10) that covers the fundamentals of the BlackBerry Native SDK for gaming. Each attendee will also receive a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to help them with their game development post-training.

At the end of the course you’ll walk away with these skills to get you jump-started on building your game:

• Set up a development environment to create a Native BlackBerry PlayBook tablet game
• Create, compile package and deploy a Native (C/C++) BlackBerry PlayBook tablet game
• Incorporate 3rd party libraries into your app
• Interact with different BlackBerry PlayBook tablet components such as accelerometer, keyboard, etc.
• Have a solid understanding of the available native networking components
• Setup a system for in-game purchases and subscriptions
• Use the Scoreloop™ SDK to share gamer scores and achievements

Apply for your chance to win one of these training spots today! The contest closes at 11:59 pm EST on March 20th and all you need to do is tell us why you should be one of the lucky 12 to attend this course!

For more information on BlackBerry developer training courses, check out www.blackberry.com/training.