Imagine Cup

Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. which brings together student developers worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges.[1] It is considered as "Olympics of Technology" by computer science and engineering and is considered one of the top competitions and awards related to technology and software design. 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, with more than 358,000 competitors representing 183 countries and regions in 2011. The Imagine Cup worldwide finals have been held all over the globe. The Imagine Cup 2017 worldwide Finals was held in Seattle, United States.[2][3]

Imagine Cup official logo

History
Mistory group (2015)

The Imagine Cup began in 2003 with approximately 1,000 competitors from 25 countries and regions and has grown to more than 358,000 competitors representing 183 countries and regions in 2011. The Imagine Cup worldwide finals have been held all over the globe. Since 2014, the Imagine Cup World Finals have been held in Seattle, 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 City, 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.
  • 2013: St. Petersburg, Russia – Theme: All dreams are now welcome.
  • 2014: Seattle, United States
  • 2015: Seattle, United States
  • 2016: Seattle, United States
  • 2017: Seattle, United States
  • 2018: Seattle, United States
  • 2019: Seattle, United States
  • 2020: Register to take part

Competition structure
A team of competitors from Portugal - Imagine Cup Poland, 2010

All Imagine Cup competitors create projects that address the Imagine Cup theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”

Competitions
  • Software Design
    The Software Design competition challenges participants 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. Participants develop, test, and build their ideas into applications that can change the world.[4]
  • Game Design
    The Game Design Competition challenges participants to create a new game that illustrates the Imagine Cup theme.[5]

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[6]
Aymeric Gaurat Apelli
Francois Beaussier
Guillaume Belmas
Vincent Vergonjeanne		 Team Inspiration[6]
Stanislav Vonog
Nikolay Surin
Konstantin Zhereb
Taras Kushko		 Team SmartEyes[6]
Eleni Korkontzila
Dimitrios Bisias
Styliani Taplidou
Nikolaos Trichakis
2005 Team OmniMusic[7]
Stanislav Vonog
Nikolay Surin
Alexander Popov
Ruslan Gilfanov
2006[8] Team Even.ctor
Giorgio Sardo
Massimo Paternoster
Silvia Perrone
Andrea Sossich		 Team Trivial
Carlos Rodrigues
Ivan Cardim
Madson Menezes		 Team NTNU
Jan-Kristian Markiewicz
Gøran Hansen
Hans Olav Norheim
Jonas Follesø
2007 Team 3KC
Prachaya Phaisanwiphatpong
Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin
Jatupon Sukkasem
Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn		 Team En#605/Project Finger Code
Prachaya Phaisanwiphatpong
Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin
Jatupon Sukkasem
Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn		 Team ICAD
Imran Allie
Conroy Smith
Ayson Baxter
Damion Mitchel
2008[9] Team SOAK[10]
David Burela
Edward Hooper
Dimaz Pramudnya
Long Zheng		 Team Housekeepers
Dusan Zelenik
Jakub Simko
Michal Kompan
Marian Honsch
2009 Team Sytech
Adrian Buzgar
Calin Juravle
Andreas Resios		 Team VitalLab
Maxim Bovykin
Sergey Fedorov
Denis Gnatyuk
Alexey Klishin
2010[11] Team Skeek
Krithee Sirisith
Pichai Sodsai
Thanasunn Dilokpinitnun
Nonthawat Srichad		 Team TFZR
Zlatibor Veljković
Milan Kojadinović
Goran Nikolić
Vanja Zavišin		 Team OneBeep
Vinny Lohan
Steve Ward
Kayo Lakadia
Chanyeol Yoo
2011[12] Team Hermes
James McNamara
Calum Cawley
Matthew Padden
Aine Conaghan		 Team Note-Taker
Qian Yan
Shashank Srinivas
David Hayden
Michael Astrauskas		 Team OaSys
Yousef Wadi
Mohammad Azzam
Monir Abu Hilal
Hani Abu Huwaij
2012[13] Team quadSquad
Stepanov Anton
Posternikov Anton
Osika Maxim
Jasakov Valery
2013[14] Team For a Better World
2014[15] Team Eyenamia
2015[16] Team EFitFashion
2016[17] Team ENTy
2017[18] Team X.Glu
2018[19] Team SmartArm
2019[20] Team EasyGlucose
Bryan Chiang		 Team Caeli
Bharat Sundal		 Team Finderr[21]
Ferdinand Loesch
Choon Kiat Lee
Sachin Sriskanda

Office Designer
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2005[22] Team Solvent-OD
Andre Furtado
Adeline Silva
Madson Menezes
Raony Araujo		 Team FIBRA
Sergey Dubovi
Pavel Zadumkin
Dmitry Kozlov
Anastasiya Filinova		 Team Paladin
Liu Teifeng
Yang Yongzhi
He Cong
Yang Lizhen

Embedded Development Competition
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2007 Team TriventDreams ED

Andre Furtado
Carlos Rodrigues
Ivan Cardim
Roberto Sonnino

2008 Team Trail Blazers Team AcidRain

Team Wings

 Team Aero@PUT
2009 Team Wafree Team iSee
2010 [11] Team SmarterME Team MCPU Team GERAS
2011 [12] NTHUCS Harmonicare Endeavour_Design

Interoperability Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2008 SKAN [23]
Sameet Singh Khajuria
Karun AB
Amith George
Noel Sequeira		 Ecologix [24][25]
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues
Eduardo Sonnino
Renato Ferreira
Roberto Sonnino		 Together [26]
Dariusz Walczak
Marcin Wrzos
Piotr Sikora
Tomasz Nowak
2009 [27] Proativa Team
Amirton Chagas
Flavio Almeida
Joao Paulo Oliveira Santos
Lucas Mello		 ECRAM
Mohammed Y. Eshbeata
Laith Dawahir
Wassim Shehadeh		 Fteams
Tomasz Ciejka
Grzegorz Glonek
Jacek Pintera
Krzysztof Szokal-Egird
2010 [28][29] Xormis
Shawn Mclean
Derron Brown
Dwayne Samuels
Markel Mairs		 Uptiva Dreams IT
Hugo Rodrigues
Edmiel Leandro
Daniel Ferreira
Eduardo Sonnino		 Chandradimuka
Yudha Antawiryawan
Kania Audrint
Anggunmeka Luhur Prasasti
Widyara Desgita
2011 [12] Team Alaniarides
Giorgos Karakatsiotis
Vangos Pterneas		 Bells Team
Daniel Ferreira
Lucas Mello
Amirton Chagas
Joao Paulo dos Santos Oliveira		 DemosceneSpirit
Lukasz Michniewicz
Szymon Majewski
Marek Banaszak
Magdalena Dudarska

Game Design
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2008 Team Mother Gaia Studio

Rafael Costa
Guilhermr Campos
Helena Van Kampen
Tulio Marques Soria

 Drunk Puppy Productions

Kenny Deriemaeker
Timothy Vanherberghen
Filip Van Bouwel
Jeroen Van Raevels

 GomZ

Dong HoonKim
KiHwan Kim
Min My Park

2009 Team LEVV It

Luciano José
Edgar Neto
Vinícius Ottoni
Victor Rafael

Epsylon Games Sanguine Labs
2010 [11] Team By Implication NomNom Productions Green Gears Studio
2011 Mobile[12] Geekologic Close World Mobile Team Dragon

Pierre Elias
Eric Lee
Veronica Burkel
Chase Sandmann

2011 Web[12] Cellardoor Signum Fidei

Thomas Tiam-Lee
Jenina Chua
Jeriah Miranda
Keven Hernandez

 Quegee Team
2011 Windows/Xbox[12] Signum Games JubJub[30] WickedTeam
2012 Windows/Xbox[31] TANG Thai[32]
2014[33] Brainy Studio BOMON Illogic
2015 [34] IzHard Kuality Games Thief
2016 PH21

IT Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2005 Stefan Plizga Emanuel Pentescu Andreas Tomek
2006 Andreas Tomek Valy Greavu Daniel Boteanu
2007 [35] Zhifeng Chen Romain Larmet Ilie Cosmin Viorel
2008 [9] Jean-Benoit Paux Cosmin Ilie Yan Liu
2009 Cosmin Ilie Wu Chang Miklos Cari Sivila
2010[11] WeiQiu Wen Miklos Cari Sivila zxc1984
2011 [12] Jean-Sébastien Duchêne Błażej Matuszyk Yunheng Mong

Digital Media
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2010[11] Mirror Vita Dreaming Spirits Woolgathering
2011 [12] M.N.A. Brothers Forever CottonCandy

Connected Planet Award
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2013 Y Nots N/A N/A

Microsoft Azure (Cloud)
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2013 Y Nots nLife LetssGo

Windows Phone
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2011 [12] HOMERUN Zipi Zigi Lifelens
Tristan Gibeau
Cy Khormaee
Wilson To
Jason Wakizaka
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2012 [13] Vivid
Noureldien Hussein (Nour El-Dien Hussein)
Muhammad El-Orabi
Kariem El-Shazly		 The Stack
Karol Stosik		 Aaltovation
Apurva Jaiswal
Irena Prochkova
Gitanjali Sachdeva
Maimuna Syed

Windows 7 Touch Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2011 [12] Team India Rose
Anthony Froissant
José Martins		 _dreambender_ IUVO

World Citizenship Competition
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2013 [36] For a Better World Omni-Hearing Solution Foodbank Local
2014 [33] Eyenaemia SMART Crew Access Earth
Matthew McCann
Jack Gallagher
KC Grant
Donal McClean
2015 [34] Virtual Dementia Experience Mozter Prognosis
2016 [37] AMANDA Night's Watch InSimu

Innovation Competition
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2013[38] soundSYNK
Robert Parker
Alex Bochenski
Jonathan Neumann
Edward Noel		 Dora SkyPACS
2014[33] Estimeet
Hayden Do
Jason Wei
Chris Duan
Derek Zhu
 Tep ButterFly
2015 [34] eFitFashion NoObs Team Siymb
2016 [39] ENTy Bit Masters HealthX

Facebook Creativity Award
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] ij Developers
2013 [36] Team Ayni

AppCampus Award
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] Tep
Brainy Studio

Skype Award
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] Drive Social Impact
Eyenaemia

Learning and Education
Code Buzzers
Innovate and Collaborate
Super Sea Dragons

Visual Studio Online Boost
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] Genesis

LeapKin
Tutus
flipped.uy
RELOAD
Learn n' Earn
BiDE Code
AfriGal Tech
Flow

Apps For Office Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] iGeek

CodeBlue

Windows & Windows Phone Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] Pomato Apps

User Experience Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] World Citizenship

Team HCI/d
Games
Team Silicon
Innovation
Hiraya
Gabriel Eric Villanueva
Jomarie Anne Marquez
Neo John Tuquero

Pitch Video Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] World Citizenship
Team Symbiote

Games
Team Sticky Bits
Innovation
Team Mote Labs

2015 [34] World Citizenship
Rapid Response

Project Blueprint Challenge
Year Gold Silver Bronze
2014 [33] World Citizenship
Team Life Up

Games
Liaison Team
Innovation
YouBeRu

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 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.[40] With this program, startups receive access to current, full-featured software development tools and platforms.[41]

Previous teams include:

Imagine Cup Grant

A three-year, $3 million competitive grant program was established by Microsoft in 2011 to support a select number of winning teams’ solutions to go to market and realize its potential to solve a critical global problem. The inaugural grant recipients were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 27, 2012 which included the following teams:

  • Team Lifelens from the United States
  • Team Apptenders from Croatia
  • Team Falcon Dev from Ecuador
  • Team OaSys from Jordan

The grant packages include US$75,000 for each team, as well as software, cloud computing services, solution provider support, premium Microsoft BizSpark account benefits and access to local resources such as the Microsoft Innovation Centers. Microsoft will also connect grant recipients with its network of investors, nongovernmental organization partners and business partners.

For the 2012 version of the competition, the following teams were announced in December 2012. The teams are:

  • Team Graphmasters from Germany. The team members are: Christian Brüggemann, Sebastian Heise and Iulian Nitescu.
  • Team StethoCloud from Australia. The team members are: Hon Weng Chong, Andrew Lin, Mahsa Salehi and Karthik Rajah.
  • Team Vivid from Egypt. The team members are: Noureldien Hussein (Nour El-Dien Hussein), Muhammed Mousa El-Orabi and Fady Fawzy Rafla.
  • Team Cipher256 from Uganda The team members are: Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello, Dr. Davis Musinguzi, Josiah Kavuma and Joseph Kaizzi.
  • Team QuadSquad from Ukraine. The team members are: Maxim Osika, Valeriy Yasakov, Anton Stepanov, Anton Posternikov and Dmytro Samoilenko.

Recognition

Imagine Cup participants from around the world who won their regional competitions in 2010 have been recognized by their government leaders.[42] In October 2010, two Imagine Cup 2010 United States finalists (Wilson To [43] from the Mobilifeteam 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, of Megadodo, 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 Josipović, President of Croatia.[44]

See also

References
  1. "Tune in to Imagine Cup July 27 to see which team wins more than $200,000 in prizes - The Official Microsoft Blog". The Official Microsoft Blog. 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  2. "Welcome to Imagine Cup 2015!". 2014-09-02.
  3. "Imagine Cup official site". Imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  4. Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
  5. Imagine Cup (2010-09-01). "Imagine Cup Official Rules".
  6. Imagine Cup (2010-12-01). "Microsoft Presspass".
  7. Imagine Cup (2005-08-01). "Microsoft Awards Student Technology Rock Stars at Imagine Cup 2005".
  8. "Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2006 Winners" (Press release). 2006-08-11.
  9. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  10. Brett Winterford (2008-07-09). "ZDNet.com".
  11. Justin Robinson (2010-07-09). "Atomic.edu".
  12. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  13. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  14. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  15. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 1 Aug 2014.
  16. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 4 Aug 2015.
  17. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  18. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  19. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  20. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  21. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  22. "Press Release".
  23. "Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2008 Winners". Microsoft.com. 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  24. "Interoperability Achievement Award Winners". Microsoft.com. 2008-12-11. Archived from the original on February 22, 2009.
  25. "Imagine Cup 2008 Year Book" (PDF). Microsoft. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  26. "Centrum Prasowe Microsoft". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  27. "Egypt 09 Imagine Cup - The World's Premier Student Technology Competition" (PDF). Microsoft.com. 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  28. "Imagine Cup 2010: The Winners!". Wired.com. 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  29. "Imagine Cup 2010 Yearbook". Microsoft.com. 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  30. Microsoft Thailand. "Imagine Cup Thailand".
  31. "Imagine Cup 2012 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  32. The Nation Newspaper. "Imagine Cup Thailand".
  33. "Imagine Cup 2014 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
  34. "Imagine Cup 2015 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  35. "Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2007 Winners". Microsoft.
  36. "Imagine Cup 2013 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
  37. "Imagine Cup 2016 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  38. "Press Release". Microsoft News Center. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  39. "Imagine Cup 2015 Winners". www.imaginecup.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  40. Chuck Lawton (2010-07-26). "Wired.com".
  41. BizSpark (2010-07-26). "BizSpark".
  42. Microsoft (2010-10-27). "Microsoft on the Issues Blog".
  43. https://huffingtonpost.com/wilson-to/educate-to-innovate-white_b_768829.html
  44. Microsoft (2010-10-04). "Imagine Cup Croatia".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.