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Winners Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 in Paris !
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by Milieunet | July 6, 2008 at 05:12 am
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The World’s Premier Student Technology Competition
"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 Corp.
Everything that the world may become "someday" lies in the hands of young people today. As they look at the road ahead, their close relationship with technology enables them to dream in ways we never have before. Put the two together, and you have young minds holding the tools that can make their vision a reality.
This is the recipe that inspired Microsoft to create the Imagine Cup. What begins with a burst of inspiration and a lot of hard work can become a future software breakthrough, a future career, or a flourishing new industry. The Imagine Cup encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Now in its sixth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.
Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online contests whose winners go on to attend the global finals held in a different location every year. Students compete in various categories, known as invitationals, that include Software Design, Embedded Development, Game Development, Short Film, Photography, Interface Design, Information Technology (IT), Algorithm, and Project Hoshimi Programming Battle. Special award challenges are also offered in 2008, which enable students to focus on developing skills in a specific technology: The Software Design Windows Live Award, the Software Design Interoperability Award, and the Interface Design Accessible Technology Award.
The intensity of the work brings students together, and motivates the competitors to give it their all. The bonds formed here often last well beyond the competition itself.
See: http://imaginecup.com/default.aspx
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at 05:14 on July 6th, 2008
Imagine a World Where Technology Enables a Sustainable Environment
That's the challenge we set to a worldwide audience of the best and the brightest technology students last September. We invited them to harness their creativity, technical know-how and most of all, their personal passion in an urgent mission: To use the power of technology to help the planet. Teams were formed, of college classmates and childhood friends. Students met after class and on weekends in Rio, London, Berlin, Paris, Sydney, New York, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beijing, Tokyo, Seattle and too many cities and towns around the globe to name. Each team and each individual student brainstormed how to approach the problem, drawing on their unique skills and experience for inspiration, an idea, and a possible solution.
Throughout this year we've challenged our competitors. Each of our nine competitions has unique requirements, tasks, and missions.
From a field of over 200,000 students around the world who started the journey last fall we have narrowed the field to 121 teams. And now we are ready for the final challenge. The finalists will meet in Paris France July 3-8 to compete before a prestigious judging panel of internationally renowned technology and environmental experts. Who will win Imagine Cup 2008?
What's at Stake?
Each invitational offers unique prizes including cash awards and Microsoft internship opportunities. But the Imagine Cup is bigger than the story of who wins first, second, or third place: We believe that when everyone comes together to help solve the planet's most urgent problems, we all win.
Who Are the Finalists?
The finalists have created solutions that will better society and change our daily lives at both a local and global level. Their projects encompass an inspiring and dizzying array of ideas with a common purpose. Projects range from empowering scientists with instant data to motivating citizens with tools that document local issues, from smart home technology to carpooling communities, from disaster recovery systems to recycling incentive systems, from the education of children to the protection of forests, from measuring urban air pollution to tracking species biodiversity. Our finalists have investigated the deepest problems facing our planet and envisioned innovative ways to build a sustainable future. Their creativity demonstrates that technology can be an ally of the planet, instead of an adversary.
at 05:40 on July 6th, 2008
Milieunet, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:07 on July 12th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2008 at the Musée du Louvre, after a week of intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions. Celebrating first place, Australia's Team SOAK won the worldwide Software Design invitational, Singapore's Team Trail Blazers won the Embedded Development invitational, and Brazil's Mother Gaia Studio won the Game Development challenge. Imagine Cup, the world's premier competition for technology students, gives students the chance to unlock their creative genius and build solutions that tackle real-world issues facing society today.
"Imagine Cup provides a forum for students around the world to explore new ways to use the power of software to help address some of the world's toughest challenges," said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "The high caliber of the students and their projects is evidence of the high level of innovation seen in the student community today, with a clear potential for real-world impact."
The software design, embedded development and game development finalist teams created applications, devices and games using the Microsoft platform and Microsoft tools based on the Imagine Cup competition theme "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."
A total of 370 students from 124 teams representing 61 countries and regions competed in the worldwide Imagine Cup finals in nine categories: Software Design, Embedded Development, Game Development, "Project Hoshimi" (Programming Battle), IT Challenge, Algorithm, Photography, Short Film and Interface Design. The student teams were asked to undertake a series of challenges relating to digital media or technology depending on the invitational.
The winners were announced in a gala awards ceremony this afternoon during the Imagine Cup World Festival, a celebration drawing Imagine Cup competitors, mentors and other key attendees. It featured keynote addresses from several dignitaries from around the world. The following are the top three finalists by invitational in finishing order:
Software Design
Team Members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng
Team Members: Marián Hönsch, Michal Kompan, Jakub Šimko, Dušan Zeleník
Team Members: Ákos Kapui, Laszló Zöld, Bálint Orosz, Gergely Orosz
Embedded Development
Team Members: Pinto James Dominic, Shi Ben Yong, Hu Shuhan, Denver Lim
Ireland - Team AcidRain
Team Members: Brian Byrne, Aodhan Coffey, Karl O'Dwyer
China - Team Wings
Team Members: Shibiao Xu, Junjie Li, Zhongjie Wang, Lei Yan
Team Members: Piotr Kryger, Mikołaj Małaczyński, Jakub Pawłowski, Piotr Slęzak
Game Development
Team Members: Guilherme Campos, Helena Van Kampen, Rafael F. Costa, Túlio Sória
Team Members: Kenny Deriemaeker, Filip Van Bouwel, Timothy Vanherberghen, Jeroen van Raevels
Team Members: Kim Dong Hoon, Kim Ki Hwan, Park Min Kyu
"Project Hoshimi" (Programming Battle)
Team Members: Ilya Grebnov, Sergei Grebnov
Team Members: Peng Guo, Jiaze Huang
Team Members: Pavlo Liapota, Margaryta Skrypachova
IT Challenge
Algorithm
Photography
Team Members: Jennifer Hui, Melissa Hui
Team Members: Rosa Maria Binder, Benedikt Wurth
Team Members: Duje Nebojša Pandžić, Martin Štokić
Short Film
Team Members: Il Jin Joung, Seong Ran An, Yeun Jun Choo, Sung Wook Lee
Team Members: Grace Montoya, Aldo Murillo
Team Members: Drake Birmann, Ryan Morrison, Media Ridha, Dan Tran
Interface Design
Team Member: David Roedl, William Odom
Team Members: Jin Fan, Kevin Muise
Team Members: Johanna Rowe, Steven Muhr
In addition to the category awards, five Achievement Awards were presented.
Team Members: Boryana Miloshevska, Dobromira Ivanova, Martin Damyanov, Yordan Pavlov
Team Members: Adam Risi, Zachery Shivers, Ziyan Zhou
Team Members: Anatoly Nikitin, Roman Belov, Daria Elkina
Furthermore, six finalist teams will have the opportunity to explore how their software solutions could potentially turn into business realities. The teams will receive intense business and technology training as part of the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program, co-sponsored by Microsoft and British Telecommunications plc (BT).
"The creativity demonstrated by the competitors this year has shown that tomorrow's technology leaders are ready to apply their solutions to real-world issues," said Joe Black, director of Business Development for Emerging Technologies, BT. "The Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator is an exceptional opportunity for young developers to explore the entrepreneurial possibilities of their software solutions. We are excited to offer our encouragement, guidance, and support to these talented students through comprehensive training sessions to help students bring their ideas to fruition."
The six teams chosen to participate in the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program are the following:
Team members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng
Team Members: Regis Hanol, Gauthier Chanliau, Sebastien Warin, Jean-Noel Gauthier
Team Members: Daniel Franke, Jörn Schindler, Vasilios Filippidis, Axel Ernst
Team Members: Ákos Kapui, Laszló Zöld, Bálint Orosz, Gergely Orosz
Team Members: Marián Hönsch, Michal Kompan, Jakub Šimko, Dušan Zeleník
Team Members: Devin de Vries, Christopher King, Nabeel Nazeer, Nadeem Isaacs
at 01:12 on July 12th, 2008
Milieunet, I like this story. It's good stuff. Great follow up details!