Imagine Cup

Student? Teacher? Excited about the Kinect? Want a chance to win cool stuff and compete with your peers from around the world? Think you have an idea that, with the Kinect, will change the world?Join the Kinect EffectThe Imagine Cup 2012 Kinect Fun Labs Challenge asks students to think about…

Over 74,000 students in the U.S. registered for the Imagine Cup which is like the Olympics for technology. Watch some of the planet-saving ideas in software and game design as students prepare for their first round of judging here in Redmond.

In March, Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award, a contest for student developers looking to build a top-of-the-line mobile application for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, using either Silverlight or the XNA framework. Since the contest’s launch, 131 teams submitted…

Proativa Team from Brazil won the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project ProLearning: “ProLearning is designed to maximize the experience of distance learning. It’s composed by an immersive virtual reality environment, where students exchange experience and study…

ECRAM from Jordan got third place at the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project Elder Children Remote Application For Mobile: “Elder Children Remote Application For Mobile(ECRAM) is an intelligent server/client application that uses any communication medium to control…

Fteams from Poland got second at the Imagine Cup 2009 Interoperability Award(*) with their project eduko: “Eduko is a system, which main goal is to ensure easy and universal education in the less developed parts of the world. New technologies and cheap ways of sending information, like SMS or…

Imagine Cup just wrapped up and Joe talks about the final ceremonies and where Imagine Cup is heading to next year.  Hint, Nicolaus Copernicus and Marie Curie were from there.  Yup Poland!  For more about Warsaw, check out Wikipedia. Cairo, Egypt was amazing…

Turns out while the students were at the Pyramids, so was Joe Wilson!  Joe was setting up the stage for the World Festival where the winners of Imagine Cup were announced! Previously, on Joe Wilson's IC09 Video Diary...

Joe Wilson is MIA so I'm going to go around and chat with students during cultural day at the Pyramids and Al Azhar Park. We'll see what Joe was up to in the next video blog. Previously, on Joe Wilson's IC09 Video Diary...

After a day worth of presentations, the teams have found out who moves on to the final rounds.  Joe and I have a little in the student confessional booth about just this.  Also, all work and no play is no fun so we show a bit of what students have to do in just the hotel.  Stay…