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'''Imagine Cup''' is an annual [[competition]] sponsored and hosted by [[Microsoft Corp.]] which brings together young [[technologists]] worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges. The Imagine Cup comprises five major technology competitions, including Software Design, and four challenges (although the challenge number is updated annually). All Imagine Cup competitors create projects that address the Imagine Cup theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”. Started in 2003, it has steadily grown in size, where in 2010 more than 325,000 competitors representing 100 countries and regions registered for the Imagine Cup with 400 finalists coming to the Worldwide finals in Warsaw, Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imaginecup.com/ |title=Imagine Cup official site |publisher=Imaginecup.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> |
'''Imagine Cup''' is an annual [[competition]] sponsored and hosted by [[Microsoft Corp.]] which brings together young [[technologists]] worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges. The Imagine Cup comprises five major technology competitions, including Software Design, and four challenges (although the challenge number is updated annually). All Imagine Cup competitors create projects that address the Imagine Cup theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”. Started in 2003, it has steadily grown in size, where in 2010 more than 325,000 competitors representing 100 countries and regions registered for the Imagine Cup with 400 finalists coming to the Worldwide finals in Warsaw, Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imaginecup.com/ |title=Imagine Cup official site |publisher=Imaginecup.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-12}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:52, 25 November 2011
Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. which brings together young technologists worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges. The Imagine Cup comprises five major technology competitions, including Software Design, and four challenges (although the challenge number is updated annually). All Imagine Cup competitors create projects that address the Imagine Cup theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”. Started in 2003, it has steadily grown in size, where in 2010 more than 325,000 competitors representing 100 countries and regions registered for the Imagine Cup with 400 finalists coming to the Worldwide finals in Warsaw, Poland.[1]
History
The Imagine Cup began in 2003 with approximately 1,000 competitors from 25 countries and regions and has grown to more than 325,000 competitors representing more than 100 countries and regions in 2010. The Imagine Cup Worldwide finals have been held all over the globe. The Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals will be held in New York City, United States.[2]
- 2003: Barcelona, Spain - Theme: Link between people, information, systems, and devices, using Web services and .NET as the springboard.
- 2004: São Paulo, Brazil - Theme: Imagine a world where smart technology makes everyday life easier.
- 2005: Yokohama, Japan - Theme: Imagine a world where technology dissolves the boundaries between us.
- 2006: Agra & Delhi, India - Theme: Imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives.
- 2007: Seoul, South Korea - Theme: Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all.
- 2008: Paris, France - Theme: Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment.
- 2009: Cairo, Egypt - Theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world's toughest problems.
- 2010: Warsaw, Poland - Theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world's toughest problems.
- 2011: New York, United States - Theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world's toughest problems.
- 2012: Sydney, Australia - Theme: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world's toughest problems.
Competition Structure
All Imagine Cup competitors create projects that address the Imagine Cup theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.” Imagine Cup 2011 consists of five competitions, including: Software Design, Game Design, Embedded Development, Digital Media and Windows Phone 7. In addition, participants may also compete in four challenges, including: Orchard, IT, and Interoperability and Windows 7 Touch.
Competitions:
- Software Design: The Software Design competition challenges students to use technology to solve what they consider to be the toughest problems facing the world today. Using Microsoft tools and technology, competitors create software applications. Students develop, test, and build their ideas into applications that can change the world.[3]
- Embedded Development: The Embedded Development competition allows students to go beyond the desktop to build a complete hardware and software solution that addresses global societal problems.[4]
- Game Design: The Game Design Competition challenges students to create a new game that illustrates the Imagine Cup theme.[5]
- Digital Media: In the Digital Media competition, teams create web video submissions that address the Imagine Cup theme.[6]
- Windows Phone 7: The Windows Phone 7 competition challenges students to create applications for Windows Phone 7 that address the Imagine Cup theme.[7]
Challenges:
- IT: The object of the IT Challenge is to highlight the art and science of developing, deploying, and maintaining IT systems that are efficient, functional, robust and secure.[8]
- Interoperability: The Interoperability Challenge is designed to recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way.[9]
- Orchard: The Orchard Challenge tasks students with creating applications that can be used online, such as a shopping cart and checkout system, video gallery or maps and geolocation services.[10]
- Windows 7 Touch: The Windows 7 Touch Challenge tasks students with leveraging Windows 7 Touch technology to help people use their computer in a more natural, accessible, and interactive way.[11]
Criticism
The Microsoft Corporation has been criticized for including provisions in the competition's legal documents, stating that by accepting their prizes, winners agree to allow Microsoft to use concepts, techniques, ideas or solutions from the winning applications "for any purpose." Also, the competition has been criticized for being rather Microsoft-centric, with demands such as "the entry must be designed on .NET Framework 2.0 using Microsoft Visual Studio" or "30% of the scoring in this round will be based on use of showcasing the .NET framework".[12]
Microsoft's Rules and Regulations,[13] however, contains a section stating that students' intellectual property will be respected, and that neither Imagine Cup competition nor Microsoft claim ownership of the materials provided by the competitors. It is important to highlight that for the sake of the judgment, internal elements of the solution might be made public to the judges.
Winners
There are a number of competitions and challenges within the Imagine Cup. The Software Design category is the primary competition in which its winners take home the Imagine Cup trophy.
Software Design
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 |  Team EPITA[14]Aymeric Gaurat Apelli Francois Beaussier Guillaume Belmas Vincent Vergonjeanne | ||
| 2005 |  Team OmniMusic[15]Stanislav Vonog Nikolay Surin Alexander Popov Ruslan Gilfanov | ||
| 2006 |  Team Even .ctor-Giorgio Sardo Massimo Paternoster Silvia Perrone Andrea Sossich | ||
| 2007 |  Team 3KCPrachaya Phaisanwiphatpong Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin Jatupon Sukkasem Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn | ||
| 2008 |  Team SOAK[16]David Burela Edward Hooper Dimaz Pramudnya Long Zheng | ||
| 2009 |  Team SytechAdrian Buzgar Calin Juravle Andreas Resios | ||
| 2010[17] | Team Skeek Krithee Sirisith Pichai Sodsai Thanasunn Dilokpinitnun Nonthawat Srichad. |
 Team TFZR
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 Team OneBeepVinny Jeet Steve Ward Kayo Lakadia Chanyeol Yoo |
| 2011[18] |  Team HermesJames McNamara Calum Cawley Matthew Padden Aine Conaghan |
 Team Note-Taker
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 OaSys
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Embedded Development Competition
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |  Team TriventDreams ED
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| 2008 |  Team Trail Blazers
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| 2009 |  Team Wafree
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| 2010 [17] |  Team SmarterME
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Team MCPU
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Team GERAS
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| 2011 [18] | NTHUCS
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 Harmonicare
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Endeavour_Design
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Game Design
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Team Mother Gaia Studio
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| 2009 | Team LEVV It
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| 2010 [17] |  Team By Implication
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 NomNom Productions
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Green Gears Studio
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| 2011 Mobile[18] | Geekologic
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Close World Mobile
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Team Dragon
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| 2011 Web[18] |  Cellardoor
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Signum Fidei
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 Quegee Team
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| 2011 Windows/Xbox[18] | Signum Games
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JubJub
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 WickedTeam
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IT Challenge
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Cosmin Ilie
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| 2010[17] | WeiQiu Wen
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 Miklos Cari Sivila
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zxc1984
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| 2011 [18] | Jean-Sébastien Duchêne
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Błażej Matuszyk
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Yunheng Mong
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Digital Media
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[17] | Mirror Vita
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 Dreaming Spirits
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Woolgathering
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| 2011 [18] | M.N.A.
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 Brothers Forever
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CottonCandy
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Windows 7 Touch Challenge
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 [18] | Team India Rose Anthony Froissant José Martins |
 _dreambender_
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 IUVO
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Innovation Accelerator
The Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator was a program that, between 2006 and 2008, provided Imagine Cup Software Design teams with direction on the next stage of developing their innovative ideas into a business. Each year, between 2006-2008, six teams were selected for the Innovation Accelerator program. Participants in the Innovation Accelerator program travelled travelled to the Microsoft Mountain View campus in Silicon Valley and received technical support and business coaching to create the must-have technology and communications applications of the future. In 2010, Microsoft began inviting every Imagine Cup team to participate in its new program for startups: Microsoft BizSpark.[19] With this program, startups receive access to current, full-featured software development tools and platforms.[20]
Previous teams include:
- 2006: Brazil, China, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Norway, India
- 2007: Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Thailand,
- 2008: Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, South Africa,
Student Recognition
Imagine Cup participants from around the world who won their regional competitions in 2010 have been recognized by their government leaders.[21] In October 2010, two Imagine Cup 2010 United States finalists (Wilson To from the Mobilife team and Christian Hood from BeastWare) were invited to participate in the White House Science Fair. New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Hon. John Key sent Team OneBeep from New Zealand a personal letter that congratulated them on their third place finish. Team Skeek from Thailand, winners of the 2010 Software Design competition, met Dr. Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich, a member of Parliament and Secretary General of The Rajapruek Institute Foundation. Microsoft Poland and members of the European Parliament hosted the “Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation” conference in Brussels. Imagine Cup teams from Poland (fteams and Mutants), Serbia (TFZR), Germany (Mediator), and Belgium (Nom Nom Productions) were in attendance. Greek Imagine Cup winners, Giorgos Karakatsiotis and Vangos Pterneas met with the Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, and demonstrated their project that creates personalized descriptions of museum exhibits based on the user's needs. Teams Xormis and Educ8 from Jamaica were honored with a special luncheon hosted by the Government of Jamaica that included an address from Hon. Bruce Golding, the prime minister. Team Think Green had the opportunity to meet with Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia.[22]
References
- ^ "Imagine Cup official site". Imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ "2010 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals Fact Sheet". 2010-07-08.
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-10-29). "Imagine Cup Blog".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-10-29). "Imagine Cup Blog".
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-12-01). "Imagine Cup Blog".
- ^ Kevin Shockey (2005-11-30). "Stark criticism of Microsoft's Imagine Cup - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog". Oreillynet.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ "Imagine Cup 2011 Official Rules". Imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ Imagine Cup (2010-12-01). [http:// http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/jul04/07-06champions04pr.mspx "Microsoft Presspass"].
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Imagine Cup (2005-09-11). "The Star".
- ^ Brett Winterford (2008-07-09). "ZDNet.com".
- ^ a b c d e Justin Robinson (2010-07-09). "Atomic.edu".
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^ Chuck Lawton (2010-07-26). "Wired.com".
- ^ BizSpark (2010-07-26). "BizSpark".
- ^ Microsoft (2010-10-27). "Microsoft on the Issues Blog".
- ^ Microsoft (2010-10-04). "Imagine Cup Croatia".
External links
- Imagine Cup Official Site
- Imagine Cup Virtual Pressroom
- Malaysia's Imagine Cup Site
- Imagine Cup Blog
- India's Imagine Cup Site