And the winners are...
Software Design
• First place: Australia — Team SOAK
Team Members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng
• Second place: Slovakia — Team Housekeepers
Team Members: Marián Hönsch, Michal Kompan, Jakub Šimko, Dušan Zeleník
• Third place: Hungary — Team DigitalMania
Team Members: Ákos Kapui, Laszló Zöld, Bálint Orosz, Gergely Orosz
Embedded Development
• First place: Singapore — Team Trail Blazers
Team Members: Pinto James Dominic, Shi Ben Yong, Hu Shuhan, Denver Lim
• Second place: TIE
Ireland — Team AcidRain
Team Members: Brian Byrne, Aodhan Coffey, Karl O’Dwyer
China — Team Wings
Team Members: Shibiao Xu, Junjie Li, Zhongjie Wang, Lei Yan
• Third place: Poland — Team Aero@PUTTeam Members: Piotr Kryger, Mikołaj Małaczyński, Jakub Pawłowski, Piotr Slęzak
Game Development
• First place: Brazil — Team Mother Gaia Studio
Team Members: Guilherme Campos, Helena Van Kampen, Rafael F. Costa, Túlio Sória
• Second place: Belgium — Team Drunk Puppy Productions
Team Members: Kenny Deriemaeker, Filip Van Bouwel, Timothy Vanherberghen, Jeroen van Raevels
• Third place: Korea — Team GOMZ
Team Members: Kim Dong Hoon, Kim Ki Hwan, Park Min Kyu
“Project Hoshimi” (Programming Battle)
• First place: Russia — Team Red Devils
Team Members: Ilya Grebnov, Sergei Grebnov
• Second place: China — Team Zephyr
Team Members: Peng Guo, Jiaze Huang
• Third place: Ukraine — Team Dream Team
Team Members: Pavlo Liapota, Margaryta Skrypachova
IT Challenge
• First place: France — Jean-Benoit Paux
• Second place: Romania — Cosmin-Viorel Ilie
• Third place: China — Yan Liu
Algorithm
• First place: Ukraine — Roman Koshlyak
• Second place: Hungary — Szilveszter Szebeni
• Third place: Japan — Naohiro Takahashi
Photography
• First place: United States — Team Provisio
Team Members: Jennifer Hui, Melissa Hui
• Second place: Austria — Team Austria
Team Members: Rosa Maria Binder, Benedikt Wurth
• Third place: Croatia — Team Voodoo Delirum
Team Members: Duje Nebojša Pandžić, Martin Štokić
Short Film
• First place: Korea — Team NEIP
Team Members: Il Jin Joung, Seong Ran An, Yeun Jun Choo, Sung Wook Lee
• Second place: Mexico — Team Lava Lamp
Team Members: Grace Montoya, Aldo Murillo
• Third place: Canada — Robotree
Team Members: Drake Birmann, Ryan Morrison, Media Ridha, Dan Tran
Interface Design
• First place: United States — Team IU EcoVis
Team Member: David Roedl, William Odom
• Second place: Canada — TeamGreeNet
Team Members: Jin Fan, Kevin Muise
• Third place: France — Team Edelweiss
Team Members: Johanna Rowe, Steven Muhr
In addition to the category awards, five Achievement Awards were presented.
• The Rural Innovation Achievement Award, sponsored by Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group, is designed to recognize the software solution that contributes toward a more sustainable environment and best helps promote the social and economic growth of underserved populations in developing countries and regions and best helps them better meet their basic needs. It was won by Indonesia’s Antarmuka: Arief Widhiyasa, Dimas Yusuf Danurwenda, Ella Madanella Dwi Mustika and Erga Ghaniya.
• The Accessible Technology Achievement Award, designed to recognize the interface design solution that makes it easier for anyone to see, hear and use a computer, and to customize their computing environment according to their own preferences, needs and abilities, was won by Jeffrey Bigham, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science from the University of Washington, United States, for Project WebAnywhere. An additional onsite challenge was won by France’s Team JivAd: Jivane Rajabaly and Adrien Ossorguine.
• The Interoperability Achievement Award, designed to recognize the software solution that best leverages Microsoft technologies to connect people, data or diverse systems to help address real-world customer needs, was won by India’s Team SKAN: Sameet Singh Khajuria, Karun AB, Amith George, Noel Sequeira.
• The Windows Live Achievement Award, designed to recognize the software solution that makes the best use of the Windows Live platform and adds new social dimensions to both new and old Web sites and Web projects, was won by Spain’s Windows Drive: Carlos Junquera Cachero, David Rodriguez, Héctor Juan and Miguel Llopis.
• The Engineering Excellence Achievement Award, sponsored by Microsoft’s Enterprise Engineering Center, is designed to recognize three outstanding teams from the Software Development category that have created solutions that demonstrate the potential to be developed to scale with focused guidance from a Microsoft engineer, was won by the following:
• Bulgaria — Team Atlas
Team Members: Boryana Miloshevska, Dobromira Ivanova, Martin Damyanov, Yordan Pavlov
• USA — Team Sparx
Team Members: Adam Risi, Zachery Shivers, Ziyan Zhou
• Russia — Team Ignition
Team Members: Anatoly Nikitin, Roman Belov, Daria Elkina
Furthermore, six finalist teams will have the opportunity to explore how their software solutions could potentially turn into business realities. The teams will receive intense business and technology training as part of the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program, co-sponsored by Microsoft and British Telecommunications plc (BT).
“The creativity demonstrated by the competitors this year has shown that tomorrow’s technology leaders are ready to apply their solutions to real-world issues,” said Joe Black, director of Business Development for Emerging Technologies, BT. “The Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator is an exceptional opportunity for young developers to explore the entrepreneurial possibilities of their software solutions. We are excited to offer our encouragement, guidance, and support to these talented students through comprehensive training sessions to help students bring their ideas to fruition.”
The six teams chosen to participate in the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program are the following:
• Australia — Team SOAK (Smart Operational Agricultural toolKit)
Team members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng
• France — Team Well K’Home
Team Members: Regis Hanol, Gauthier Chanliau, Sebastien Warin, Jean-Noel Gauthier
• Germany — Team PoinT-Power in Time
Team Members: Daniel Franke, Jörn Schindler, Vasilios Filippidis, Axel Ernst
• Hungary — Team Digital Mania
Team Members: Ákos Kapui, Laszló Zöld, Bálint Orosz, Gergely Orosz
• Slovakia — Team Housekeepers
Team Members: Marián Hönsch, Michal Kompan, Jakub Šimko, Dušan Zeleník
• South Africa — Team Smile
Team Members: Devin de Vries, Christopher King, Nabeel Nazeer, Nadeem Isaacs
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