Try some young minds for a change (Score 1)

Your issue with CS graduates is that there are so many of them and no solid criteria for picking those that would be capable of doing the job. I'm a highschool student from an Eastern European country (Romania), and I've had some good results in the National Informatics Contest (a contest of algorithmic.. rather mathematical), and from what I've seen, the best programmers you'll ever find (I mean Applied maths, Algorithms, C, ASM, hacing, etc.) are not CS graduates (actually, that school seems to have an unique purpose of making even the best forget what they had once known), but highschool students and junior students at Maths/Informatics/CS. And you have a good criteria for picking them up: there are the Balcanic, Central European and International Olympiads in Informatics, where you can pick the best of the best. Their main asset is that you can shape them the way you want, that is harder to do with a man that for -years- has been taugh to do the same thing. The main issue is that you must invest in their future education. I dont know if you're interrested in european students for your project (should that be the case, I'm positively interrested myself - email me), but, anyways, you could use the idea of the contest (you could organize a highly-mediated contest where you can pick the man you want).

Hope this is useful

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