Team Nepal
Team Members:
- Anish Shrestha, Nepal College of Information Technology, Pokhara University
- Archana Maharjan, Kathford International College, Tribhuvan University
- Kushal Gautam, New Summit College, Tribhuvan University
- Sadiksha Dhakal, Kathmandu College of Management, Kathmandu University
History
It was the time when Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) meetings were running and in one of the meetings in MSP2010 year, they heard something about Imagine Cup. As soon as they heard this , one of the team members started searching on internet and while chatting with friends they came to known that they individually were looking for Imagine Cup on internet to get some ideas and eventually started thinking of adding team members. Then, followed by meetings and chats, a team was registered “Team Nepal”. In the mean time, a national level software competition was organized in which members of team Nepal participated individually. After exploring the ideas of national level software competition Multipoint challenge, the decided to make a project based on Education sector and the application was named Digशिक्षा . They made sure of fulfilling requirements of United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Then they did a lot of research and hard works. They talked to schools in remote school areas in Lalitpur sub-metropolitan city,Nepal. They used to visit 5 to 6 times each school and sometimes even more. They researched, surveyed, implemented and lot more to make their ideas work into action. They completed the project but due to some technical problems they were not selected to compete for imagine cup 2010 Poland.
For further information on Team Nepal 2010 ,you can visit the following link.
http://tmnepal.wordpress.com/
Now
Team Nepal 2.0
Members
1. Samant Manandhar
2. Anish Shrestha
3. Archana Maharjan
4. Kushal Gautam
With the arrival of new team member , team Nepal calls itself now Team Nepal 2.0 .
Team Nepal started again fresh for Imagine Cup 2011. They choose Health sector this time as a challenge to solve world’s toughest problems through power of technology i.e, through their software. Since the team members are of different colleges, they believe different ideas flourished at Team Nepal 2.0. Their software is basically a decision support system through which they tried to solve Health issues at community level. Health is a precious gift to human life as we all know , so they believe this software will be helpful to rural and remote areas .
Imagine Cup 2011
Imagine cup is an annual technology competition organized by Microsoft Corporation. Students around the globe put their heart and soul in this competition. Started nine years ago in 2003 and till now Imagine Cup has been organized in different places of the world like Spain, Brazil, Japan, India, South Korea, France, , Egypt, Poland and this year’s Imagine Cup 2011 in New York, United States.
This year Imagine Cup 2011 theme is “ imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems” . So, keeping this theme in mind, students from around the globe put their effort in developing a solution. A solution that helps in making this world a better place to live, to create , to design , to contribute and all of this through using power of technology.
The competitions in which students can compete are software design, embedded development, game design, digital media, windows phone 7, IT challenge. An important thing to remember is that the software must be designed on .NET Framework using visual studio or lets just say the software must be made using Microsoft Product. Students have to register individually or as a team in www.imaginecup.com in order to compete. A team contain maximum 4 students and a mentor.( http://www.imaginecup.com/faculty-mentors)
I am looking forward to Team Nepal and wish them success who are going to compete in Imagine Cup.
Its not just a software, it’s a solution . So don’t stop dreaming at all, start to imagine.