Imagine Cup - Learn New Skills. Make New Friends. Change The World.
The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. It provides an opportunity for students to use their creativity, passion, and knowledge of technology to help solve global challenges and make a difference in the world. While competing for cash and prizes, students gain real-life experiences, make new friends, and change the world.
"I wish there had been an Imagine Cup when I was growing up. It gets people involved in seeing that software is changing the world."
- Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft
Now in its tenth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real-world problems. 358,000 students representing 183 countries and regions registered for the Imagine Cup 2011 Competition. The Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft encourages the brightest young minds to join together and use technology to take on the toughest problems facing our world today.
“Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”
This is the Imagine Cup 2012 Theme and students are tasked to apply their imagination and passion to create technology solutions aligned to this Theme and solve the problems shown in the pictures[1-8] and become part of the solution.
“So Innovators from NEPAL get ready for the Imagine Cup 2012 to give The Best of The Best with the greatest ideas to solve the world’s toughest problems”
The "Cup" Around The World!
The Imagine Cup was founded in 2003 and has traveled the world westward from Barcelona, Spain to Sao Paolo, Brazil to Yokohama, Japan to New Delhi, India to Seoul, South Korea to Paris, France and down to Cairo, Egypt, up to Warsaw, Poland and in 2011, west to New York City, USA and 2012 its Australia.
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Student teams from around the world competed in nine categories and Team Hermes from Sligo Institute of Technology in Ireland took top honors in the Software Design category. Over 350,000 students globally took part in the competition over the past months, leading to the Worldwide Finals in New York City July 8-13.
Imagine Cup 2011 - New York, United States
· 350,000 registered from 183 countries and regions
· 128 finalist teams:
| Competition Categories |
Teams Members
|
| Software Design |
67 |
| Embedded Development |
20 |
| Game Design (Windows/ Xbox) |
5 |
| Game Design (Mobile) |
5 |
| Game Design (Web) |
5 |
| Digital Media |
6 |
| Windows Phone 7 |
5 |
| IT Challenge |
6 |
| Inter-operability Challenge |
3 |
| Orchard Challenge |
3 |
| Windows 7 Touch Challenge |
3 |
The Imagine Cup 2011 Winners:
Software Design First Place Winners: Team Hermes from Ireland
[PHOTO: Team Hermes from Ireland wins the software design competition in this years' Imagine Cup worldwide finals. Credit: Microsoft ]
NTHUCS
Taiwan’s Team NTHUCS sets up their display booth at the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals. The team won the Embedded Development contest with project RIGHT!! This Way, which computes the safest fire escape routes in real time as detected by a wireless sensor network.
[PHOTO: Team NTHUCS wins the embedded development competition]
Game Design - Windows/Xbox Winning Teams:
Signum Games
Brazil’s Team Signum Games demos their winning Game Design – Windows/Xbox entry "UCan," a strategy game that invites players to solve urban problems involving health, education and the environment.
[PHOTO: Team Signum wins the Game Design – Windows/Xbox competition]
Cellardoor
Members of Poland’s Team Cellardoor demo "The Book of Elm" for the judges. The game, which won the Game Design – Web category, illustrates the importance of taking care of the environment in everyday life through the interactive story of Elm, a creature on a quest to fix the mistakes done by people around the world.
[PHOTO: Team Cellardoor wins the Game Design – Web competition]
Geeklogic
Team Geeklogic from France won the Game Design – Mobile contest with "Brainergy," a Windows Phone 7 puzzle game in which the player has to solve different challenges based on renewable energy.
[PHOTO: Team Geeklogic wins the Game Design – Mobile competition]
HOMERUN
In the Windows Phone 7 category, Korea’s Team HOMERUN took first place with Peekaboo, an application designed to help family members communicate with each other through a treasure-hunt game.
[PHOTO: Team HOMERUN wins the Windows Phone 7 Competition]
Register today for Imagine Cup 2012!
Source: http://www.imaginecup.com/ and http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2011/jul11/07-13ImagineCupWinners.mspx