Showing posts with label Imagine Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imagine Cup. Show all posts

Friday, 2 September 2011

CNN interviews Steve Ballmer about the Imagine Cup 2011

Hi Folks,

on July 8th, CNN interviewed Steve Ballmer about the Imagine Cup 2011 finals taking place in New York at the time. The video (appoximately 5 minutes) features, among others, the Harmonicare team from Tsinghua University, China, that went on to take 2nd place in the Embedded Development category:



Congratulations again to all Imagine Cup 2011 finalists!

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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Imagine Cup 2011: and the winners are…

Congratulations to the winners of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2011, the world’s premier student competition with the theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”! This year's final took place in New York City. 358,000 Students from around the world competed in 11 categories including Embedded Development. Each winning team was awarded $25,000.


…and the winners in the Embedded Development category are:

3rd place:
Endeavour_Design from Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania with a self-learning device aiming to reduce the mortality on the road by autarky avoiding obstacles in an unknown environment.

2nd place:
Harmonicare from Tsinghua University, China with a lung training system for people with respirator problems or breath diseases. This system converts the air flow into music by playing a harmonica and thus making lung training fun.

1st place:
NTHUCS from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan with a dynamic emergency exit sign system. This system detects smoke and fire in a building and changes the emergency exit signs accordingly. In addition, the system also uses lasers to guide people in heavy smoke.

Congratulations again! You can find a complete list of this year's winners here.

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Imagine Cup to be held in Poland next year

Microsofts Student Technology Competition "Imagine Cup 2010" will be held in Poland next year.

If you missed the final round of this years competition - because you were on holiday like me ;-) - then you can find the 2009 Cup Winners here.

If your interested in participating in next year's competition and have questions or are looking for a mentor, feel free to get in touch with us.

So long and thanks for all the fish!
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