Team Tactile, a spirited group of six young women from MIT, made it all the way to the U.S. Imagine Cup finals by impressing judges with an invention that turns printed text into Braille. Their innovative technology makes it easier for people with low or no vision to read everything from textbooks to menus in…
Are you ready to create something cool, learn new skills and have a chance to pocket a nice chunk of change? Then get ready for the launch of the 2017 Hello Cloud Contest. From now until June 2017, you’ll have a chance each month to win $1,000 — all while building the cloud development skills…
The winners of the third round of the Imagine Cup Earth competition have been named! Imagine Cup Earth participants used NASA Earth science data and Microsoft’s free developer tools for students to design an app, game or simulation in one of two categories. Intermediate level competitors (those with coding experience) built an app or game…
Team ENTy of Romania celebrates on stage in the Quincy Jones Performing Arts Center at Garfield High School after winning the 2016 Imagine Cup Championship. On July 29th, a new Imagine Cup Champion was crowned – Team ENTy of Romania, creators of a device and solution that monitors balance and posture and has wide-ranging potential…
This morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the first place winners of the Games, Innovation and World Citizenship categories in the Imagine Cup World Finals. These teams may have won (to the tune of $50,000), but their competition isn’t over yet. Tomorrow, they move on to compete in the Championship round. Friday morning, three special…
Team Vanguards: Noof Abdulla (foreground) and Mahmood AlSarhani (background) The first day of Imagine Cups has ended, and it was a whirlwind of nerves, drama and demos. Wednesday morning, the 35 Imagine Cup World Finals teams made last-minute tweaks to their demos, paced the hallways practicing their speeches and reminded themselves why they were at…
In just a few days, five of the 35 teams competing at the Imagine Cup World Finals will showcase what they’ve been working on since they first entered the competition. Five of these teams—AMANDA, HealthX, Home Guardians, Night’s Watch and Tower Up—are using a variety of technology to prevent, relieve or solve challenges that afflict…
You’re acquainted with this year’s Imagine Cup World Finalists, so now let’s meet the individuals who will judge the teams and decide who wins first, second and third place in the Games, Innovation and World Citizenship competitions. Four judges preside over each category, and each is passionate about what the global competition epitomizes. Our 12…
Last year’s Ability Award Winners – Team Prognosis of Greece. From left to right, Konstantinos Mavrodis, Dimitris Iakovakis, Vicky Bikia and Despina Efthymiadou. I’m excited to announce that we’ll be presenting one of the 35 Imagine Cup World Finals teams with the Ability Award on July 28 here in Seattle! Microsoft strives to create and…
Virtual Dementia Experience team members Liam McGuire, Norman Wang, Chris Mackenzie and James Bonner face the judges in the 2015 Imagine Cup Championship. We caught up with first-place teams from the 2015 Imagine Cup World Finals—eFitFashion, IzHard and Virtual Dementia—to see how their projects have evolved since their triumph last year. They’ve been busy: one…
