Buenas!!!
Ha llegado a buen termino la edicion 2009 de Imagine Cup celebrado en Egipto, un evento acampañado de estudiantes de todo el mundo llenos de energia, entusiasmo y de miles de ideas que pueden ayudan a cambiar el mundo.
Los ganadores han sido anunciados y merecidamente premiados, pero al igual que ellos todos los que tuvieron la oportunidad de participar y vivir esta experiencia ya son ganadores.
A continuacion les presento el listado de ganadores por cada una de las categorias:
2009 Imagine Cup Winners
Worldwide Finals: Cairo, Egypt
Theme: "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems."
Software Design
First place: Romania, SYTECH
Second place: Russia, Vital Lab
Third place: Brazil, Virtual Dreams
Embedded Development
First place: Korea, Wafree
Second place: China, iSee
Third place: Ukraine, Intellectronics
Game Development
First place: Brazil, LEVV It
Second place: United States, Epsylon Games
Third place: United Kingdom, Sanquine Labs
IT Challenge
First place: Romania, Cosmin Ilie
Second place: China, Wu Chang
Third place: Bolivia, Miklos Cari Sivila
Robotics & Algorithm
First place: Czech Republic, Lukas Perutka
Second place: Canada, Byron Knoll
Third place: China, Lin Fuming
MashUp
First place: United States, CURIOUS
Second place (tie): Poland, Monastery of Innovations
Second place (tie): Singapore, PlanetKY
Photography
First place: Croatia, Team Voodoo Delirium
Second place: Singapore, Woolgathering
Third place: Japan, Terada
Short Film
First place: United Kingdom, Fulham Four
Second place: India, ChennaiCoolers
Third place: Ukraine, Just4Fun
Design
First place: Brazil, Willburn
Second place: United States, eXchangeFun
Third place: France, Paindepices
2009 Awards
Unlimited Potential MultiPoint Education Award
First place: India, Trailblazers
Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award
First place: Malaysia, COSMIC
Second place: China, Unique Studio
Third place: Malaysia, Capricorn
Interoperability Award
First place: Brazil, Proativa Teams
Second place: Poland, Fteams
Third place: Jordan, ECRAM
Accessibility Award
First place: Saudi Arabia, ATST
Second place: Mexico, Ignis Nova
Honorable Mention(s): Jordan, ECRAM; United States, TeleWeb; China, Isee; Belgium, PSA
Accessible Design Award
United States, eXchangeFun
Tablet Accessibility Award
First place: United States, Auratech
Second place: Brazil, IC-Unicamp
Parallel Computing Award
First place: India, Biollel
H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak Special Award
First place: Poland, kAMUflage
Second place: Egypt, Big Buddy
Third place: France, WikiChildProtect
Windows Mobile Award Winners
Croatia, Team Explorer
Indonesia, Big Bang
Brazil, Virtual Dreams
Live Services Award
First place: France, Help’Aged
Second place: Serbia, BrainWave
More than 300,000 students from over 142 countries entered the 2009 competition. The theme of 2010 Imagine Cup is "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems."
The Imagine Cup was founded in 2003. Worldwide Finals host countries have spanned the globe from Spain, to Brazil, to Japan, to India, to South Korea, to France and last year, in Egypt. The 2010 Worldwide Finals will take place in Poland.
The "cup" itself, a trophy first awarded in 2003 when Software Design was the only category, has spent time with the Software Design champions in the United States (2003-2004), France (2004-2005), Russia (2005-2006), Italy (2006-2007), Thailand (2007-2008), Australia (2008-2009) and Romania (2009-2010).
Tomado de: http://imaginecup.com/Support/exploreimaginecup.aspx
Finalmente, para conocer un poco mejor a los ganadores, les presento una entrevisca que cada equipo tuvo con Anthony Salcito quien es el General Manager del area de Educacion en Microsoft
Imagine Cup 2009 Winners
Bueno felicitaciones a los ganadores y se viene una nueva edicion, Imagine Cup 2010 nos espera, estudiantes con ideas, animo y ganas de cambiar el mundo.
Gerardo Ramos – Microsoft Student Partner
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