In their game “Timelie,” Imagine Cup Team PH21 from Thailand puts you in control of a woman and girl as they try to escape from a research lab. The four student developers that make up Team PH21 met while collaborating on computer engineering projects at Chulalongkorm University in Thailand. Their game started as a…
Last year, four students from Greece came across the story of Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old in Canada who tragically took her own life after two years of bullying. Inspired by the young woman’s story, the students – Georgios Schinas, Ilias Chrysovergis, Margarita Bintsi and Vasileios Baltatzis – decided to explore the possibility of using technology…
For 15 years, Imagine Cup has challenged student developers to further the reach, breadth and effect that technology can have on the world around us. Team ENTy – three computer science students from Romania – rose to that challenge and was crowned the 2016 Imagine Cup Champion last July. What was their winning secret? They…
Imagine Cup is all about innovation, transformation and what comes next. Through Imagine Cup, Microsoft provides student developers with the opportunity to mold the world of tomorrow in their eyes by combining their ideas with the power of technology. Now celebrating its 15th anniversary, I want to share some exciting new changes we’re making to…
Launching Azure Machine Learning Studio Azure Machine Learning Studio is a drag and drop tool that allows you to run machine learning experiments, train models and deploy web services based on the trained models so you can create web or mobile applications that predict the future based on the past. If you have an Azure…
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…
