by Sylvester Addo | Jul 27, 2017 | Developer, General
Follow all the action from the Imagine Cup 2017 World Championship Finals.
The Imagine Cup competition is Microsoft’s global completion for student developers. It empowers the next generation of computer science students to team up and use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology to create applications that shape how we live, work and play. This years Imagine Cup Finals already has an aura around it seeing it marks a milestone and not forgetting the $ 100,000 top price package.
Four teams have made it to the finals and will compete for the cup and grand prize. Stay tuned as we will have the live broadcast available.
by Sylvester Addo | May 19, 2017 | Developer, Events, General, Microsoft Africa
15 Teams are contesting in this years Microsoft Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa Finals underway in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Imagine Cup competition is Microsoft’s global completion for student developers. It empowers the next generation of computer science students to team up and use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology to create applications that shape how we live, work and play. This years Imagine Cup Finals already has an aura around it seeing it marks a milestone and not forgetting the $ 100,000 top price package.
Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa finals 2017 is being hosted by Microsoft’s Lebanon Team. The 3 day event, 18th to 20th of may is taking place at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. The grand final and awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 20th.
The Teams!
These are participating teams in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa Finals competition;
Nigeria – [Beacon],
Lebanon – [Bl!nk],
Algeria – [Diaxx],
Egypt – [The Rivals],
Saudi Arabia – [S Cubed],
Tunisia – [Peace-makers],
Qatar – [WaCoMo],
Turkey – [Crystal Ball],
Bahrain – [Influx],
Oman – [Beta],
Morocco – [E-Park],
United Arab Emirates – [Green Jam],
Jordan – [DocStroke],
Pakistan – [Positive Zero],
West Bank & Gaza – [BZU-Monster],
On what the teams are working on and presenting;
Team Beacon – Nigeria – an app connecting emergency service providers with those needing assistance.
Follow the Microsoft Imagine Cup Middle East and Africa Finals competition event on social media via the hashtag #ImagineCupMEA. Don’t forget to cheer your team on. All the best to all teams and hopefully they all impress at the finals in Seattle, Washington later this year.
UPDATE :
Teams Green Jam (UAE), Bl!nk (Lebanon), DocStroke (Jordan), E-Park (Morocco), Beta (Oman) and WaCoMo(Qatar) have qualified for the world finals in Seattle.
by Sylvester Addo | Jan 23, 2017 | app, Developer, MSP
As part of the winning package of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016 competition, Winners were to meet Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Team ENTy had this opportunity and here’s their chat with the chief.
Team ENTy from Romania were crowned champions ? of the Microsoft 2016 Imagine Cup competition finals. Four teams from Africa made it to the finals with team Night’s Watch, from Tunisia coming in 2nd in the World Citizenship category, winning $10,000.
The 2016 Imagine Cup winners, winning $ 50,000 cash prize also got to receive a private mentoring session with CEO Satya Nadella.
“The call with Satya was amazing,” said Flavia. “After presenting and doing a live demo on stage at the Imagine Cup World Championships, we never thought we would feel that anxious and nervous again. But he talked with us like he had known us for years.”
Q: Team ENTy: what would he do if he were a co-founder of ENTy?
A: Satya Nadella . I’ll make the hardware smaller, get the patents and the certifications for the product, and find good investors.
“He told us that we should keep fighting for our product, and that we should hurry up with the launch in the market because timing is crucial when you’re part of a startup,”
Since being crowned the Imagine Cup Champions in July, ENTy has been hard at work perfecting its product, with an intense focus on making it smaller and getting it into the hands of the health care professionals who will be its primary customers.
“We minimized our hardware to a device that’s about the size of a coin,” Flavia said. “Right now, we are testing it in hospitals in Romania, and we are getting the necessary medical certificates for the product’s use in Europe.”
Team ENTy has this advice for students who wish to give the competition a go.
“Never stop believing in what you’re trying to do, whether it’s a startup, a project, a song, anything!” students participating in Imagine Cup should focus their efforts on building “a successful product, not on winning something. Our aim was to make a product that will help doctors and patients, and that is exactly what we did.”
This year’s, 2017Â Imagine Cup finals will be the 15th anniversary and has a cash price package of $ 100,000.
To participate in the competition, check with your institution for a Microsoft Students Partners group. The events will be hosted by the local Microsoft subsidiaries in eligible countries. There’ll be national finals and then all the finalist head out to Seattle for the big event where they’ll present their ideas.
