Science + coding + chance to win = Imagine Cup Earth! Enter today!

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If you’re between the ages of 6 and 18, want to code, and are interested in NASA’s work, the Imagine Cup Earth competition is for you! Using data collected by NASA plus Microsoft’s free, online developer tools for students, you can compete to win one of six cash prizes. There are two categories: Intermediate participants—those…


Want to change the world? Make it smarter with the Internet of Things!

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On a clear, sunny afternoon in mid-April, two student developer teams—Campus Innovators and SmartGrid—blew the minds of university staff, their professors and industry professionals. In just four months, these teams were able to demonstrate two ways that the Internet of Things (IoT)—that is, the billions of devices that connect, collect, and exchange data using the…


Meet your 2016 Online Finals Winners!

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Imagine Cup is all about games you cannot turn off, innovations that change the way you live, and applications that save lives. Imagine Cup helps young people see how the technology they create can not only shape their own futures, but can directly improve the lives of users. Introducing the 2016 Imagine Cup Online Finals…


Want to win a trip to Imagine Cup World Finals? Enter our Hello Cloud machine learning contest now!

Congratulations to the latest winners of the Hello Cloud competition: February winner: Prabhath Mannapperuma of Sri Lanka March winner: Attila Geiszt of Romania Attila and Prabhath each won $1,000 just by learning to build and deploy apps with Microsoft Azure! Want to be a Hello Cloud winner? Register for the Hello Cloud contest, and start…


One language to rule them all: How Azure and Xamarin dominate app development

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Malte Götz (L), Rafael Regh and Kai Brummund develop apps together and have been friends, Microsoft Student Partners and Xamarin Student Partners for six years. If you want to learn how to create beautiful and compelling cross-platform apps and deploy them to the cloud, then look no further than Malte Götz (21), Rafael Regh (21)…


Microsoft Azure Tutorial: Build your first movie inventory web app with just a few lines of code

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Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Mustafa Mahmutović, a Microsoft Student Partner who attends the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sarajevo where he is a Computer Science Major. In this tutorial, you will learn how the built-in features of Visual Studio Community 2015 and the .NET framework do a…


First an app, now a booming business – Azure powers Imagine Cup alumni to new heights

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Team Smile, from Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008, is now a thriving company. From left, Chris King, Devin de Vries and Dave New, founders of WhereIsMyTransport. Back in 2007, Chris King sat anxiously waiting for an overdue university shuttle. The shuttle arrived so late that he missed an exam. Transportation frustrations like this led Chris, along…


Student Highlights from Build 2016 Day 2

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More student highlights from the second day of Build 2016! Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanslman, Steve Guggenheimer, and others walked through some awesome announcements and demos. In this video, I discuss Build 2016 day 2 highlights with two students: Ming Yang (former Microsoft intern), and Keegan Farley (also a former Microsoft intern). Please stay tuned for more Build 2016 student…


Student Highlights from Build 2016 Day 1

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There was a LOT of exciting news and announcements during the first day of Build 2016. Satya Nadella, Terry Myerson, Kevin Gallo, Alex Kipman and others had awesome announcements and updates spanning Windows, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Xbox, Hololens, Cortana, and other technologies. In this video, I discuss Build 2016 day 1 highlights with two students: Megan Fu (former Microsoft…