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4月22日 Complete Round 1 Results are Out!Complete Round 1 Results are Out!All online competitions have officially concluded their first round of eliminations. Congratulations to the following students, teams, and schools who have made it to Round 2! You are just a step away from competing in the world finals in Egypt this July.
Photography Competition
Algorithm & Robotics Competition
Design for Development Award
Embedded Development
Game Development
IT Challenge
Mash Up
3月30日 Round 2 Winners!
Round 2 Winners! And now, the announcement everyone is waiting for… the top 5 teams who will compete in the local finals!
Congratulations! Good luck! Round 3: Local Finals (April 13, 2009) 3月24日 Robotics&Algorithm Training
Interested in Robotics? Do you dream of Algorithms in your sleep? We will be hosting a Robotics&Algorithm training on March 28, 2009 at the Department of Computer Science Building, Velasquez Street, UP Diliman from 1-3PM. To join, please approach your Microsoft Student Partner in school or email us at acadph [at] microsoft [dot] [com]. Microsoft Student ProgramsMicrosoft Student ProgramsMicrosoft Student programs mission is to empower you to achieve your hopes and dreams - both in your personal and professional life. The Imagine Cup is one of these programs. Learn more about the other cool Microsoft programs below and jump start your career, find free software, or communicate online with other students.
Become a student RockStar! Microsoft Student Partners is a global initiative that provides university students with a passion for technology, the ability to use real-world skills and resources to prepare for a successful career.
Starting your career? Microsoft Students to Business links you with Microsoft industry partners and provides you practical experience to establish skills and competencies.
Channel 8 is the Microsoft online community for technology students. Its purpose is to create a venue to help students share ideas with peers, engage with technology experts, and explore exciting new technologies. By providing the ability to communicate and collaborate online, Channel 8 helps students overcome borders and cultural barriers, gain technical resources, and have fun.
Get free software! Microsoft DreamSpark is your ticket to the future. It gives you professional level developer and designer tools at no charge. With these tools, you can invent new breakthroughs in technology, get a head start on your career, or just have fun. FREE Software??Software AccessBECOME A COMPETITOR! Once you become serious and sign-up as a competitor and submit a Round 1 entry in one of the Imagine Cup competitions, OR you have already passed a Round 1 IT Challenge quiz, you gain access to download additional FREE software programs from an extended list of 83 Microsoft software titles. Titles available for competitors only are designated with a * in the list below and can be accessed here. We are also delighted to offer all Imagine Cup 2009 registrants an opportunity to download Microsoft software for FREE! Please read the Guidelines and step-by-step process below for access to this great offer.
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Available Software Packages: *= titles for Imagine Cup competitors only Academic Resource Kit .NET CD1 Teaching Resources * Key Technologies in Imagine CupSoftware Design Technologies Microsoft MultiPoint helps developers create educational applications that affordably increase the reach of existing classroom computers. With MultiPoint, a single computer can have multiple mice connected, making it possible for groups of students to work on one computer—at the same time. Through uniquely-designed on-screen cursors, Microsoft Multipoint allows three to 30 students to collaboratively use and learn from educational software on one computer, thereby creating an active, collaborative learning experience that engages each and every student. To incorporate MultiPoint SDK in your Imagine Cup solution: click here. Mesh Services and Live Framework are building blocks that bring software and internet services together and put you in control of your digital world. They allow you to interact with applications, files, people, and devices that matter the most and make sure you are in sync with them wherever you are and whenever you need them. Mesh Services provide exciting new opportunities for developers that bring traditional client and web applications to life and introduce new classes of applications to the developer toolkit. Experience Mesh and learn about developing on Mesh Services. Live Framework provides one place to program against Mesh Services and other exciting Live Services like Live Contacts, Live Profile and much more. These are the same things that power the Windows Live and Mesh experiences. Now you have their power at your disposal! No matter what languages, platforms or developer tools you use, you’ll find that with the Live Framework you will be able to create exciting new applications across the web, desktop and devices and enhance your existing applications with new capabilities. To incorporate Mesh Services & Live Framework in your Imagine Cup solution: click here. Parallel Computing applications are helping turn ideas that were once nothing more than farfetched dreams in to reality. Dynamic 3D environments, complex investment analysis, and product development tools are just a few examples of what parallel computing makes possible. The computing industry is at an inflection point. Over the last 30 years, software developers have relied on exponential growth in processor power in order to increase the performance, feature functionality, and user experience richness of their applications. However, this clock speed driven free lunch is over. While the average PC clock speed increased more than 10x between 1993 and 1999, this average hasn’t doubled in the last four years. Instead, the hardware industry is shifting to multi-core and manycore processors where multiple cores are placed on a single die to increase the overall processor computational horsepower. The average PC on the market today is a dual-core, soon to be quad-core. In two years, expect the average to be eight-core! Unfortunately, most software today does not effectively take advantage of multiple cores. The key to high-performance applications of the future is through parallelism. To incorporate Parallel Computing in your Imagine Cup solution: click here. SMS Server Toolkit enables anyone with a Windows smartphone and a PC to create an SMS server, thereby bridging computer networks with that of SMS. Short Message Service" (SMS)-capable phones are the most common digital-access devices in the world, with more than 2.5 billion devices sold to date. Unfortunately, much of the great data and functionality based in PC networks has been unavailable to SMS-based phones to date. In particular, we are excited about this technology because it enables small organizations such as schools, microfinance organizations, and even a lone IT staff worker to experiment and deploy SMS based applications cheaply. They can build these applications using Visual Studio or Excel. Additionally, this technology does not require that a developer gain permission from the local telephone company. The developer just plugs in a phone and pays for any SMS messages their program generates or receives. Sample applications we expect people to create: Schools can SMS hundreds of parents simply by filling out an Excel spreadsheet. Organizations can make their corporate directories easily available to any employer with an SMS cell phone. Sales representatives can SMS a customer name or number to their company’s SMS server and receive that customer’s ERP information. This is mostly an enabling technology that will help many developers create SMS applications easily and cheaply. We believe that this platform providing SMS “server sessions” is the first of its kind and will make it easy for developers to create dialogue-based interactions via SMS, essentially enabling people to create interfaces as robust as an iPod UI. To incorporate SMS Server Toolkit in your Imagine Cup solution: click here. Windows Mobile lets you reuse your existing Visual Studio and .NET development skills and server infrastructure to extend your applications to mobile devices and give users new experiences and solve new business
Embedded Development Technologies
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 provides the latest breakthrough technologies that enable CE 6.0 device makers to efficiently build small footprint devices that connect to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. These new features include additions and upgrades to: Device Drivers, Remote Desktop, Internet Explorer, VoIP, Web Services on Devices (WSDAPI), WMP Updates and File System Updates.
MashUp Technologies
PopFly Block is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users. So you’ve created an account on Popfly and want to create a mashup but you’re not sure what a mashup is or how you create one? Then this is the document for you! Popfly Mashups are all about letting you take data and media from different sources and combining them to make web sites the way you want. These mashups can then be embedded in other places such as your blog or Facebook profile and even downloaded as a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget. To incorporate PopFly Block in your Imagine Cup solution: click here.
Photography Technologies Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet. Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point each photo was taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos. Photosynth was inspired by the breakthrough research on Photo Tourism from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. This work pioneered the use of photogrammetry to power a cinematic and immersive experience. Providing that experience requires viewing a LOT of data though—much more than you generally get at any one time by surfing someone’s photo album on the web. That’s where our Seadragon™ technology comes in: delivering just the pixels you need, exactly when you need them. It allows you to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100(!) megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load. nt to know even more We’ve have bunch of information about our community on the blog. You can get advice on making that one synth turn out perfectly on the community site. To incorporate Photosynth in your Imagine Cup solution: click here. Congratulations Round 2 Qualifiers!Congratulations Round 2 Qualifiers!
Software Design In no particular order, the teams who move on to Round 2 are…
Embedded Development
Game Development
IT Challenge
Mash Up
Goodluck in Round 2! Software Design Round 2 TeamsIn no particular order, the teams who move on to Round 2 are…
Congratulations to everyone! See you in Round 2! 3月20日 Software Design Round 2 TeamsIn no particular order, the teams who move on to Round 2 are…
Congratulations to everyone! See you in Round 2! 3月10日 Software Design Competition
Round 1 deadline moved to March 16! Welcome to the Imagine Cup Software Design Competition for the Philippines. This competition is open to all students in the Philippines. For more information on eligibility requirements, see the competition rules. Round 1: Project Proposals (March 16, 2009)
Round 2: Lightning Round (March 30, 2009)
Round 3: Local Finals (April 13, 2009)
3月3日 Online Competition Updates
Here are the official deadlines for online competitions [view]. Take note that Robotics&Algorithm, Photography, Short Film, and Design Round 1 competitions have been extended to April 1. 3月2日 Short Film Workshop
To all teams participating in the Short Film Invitational, we will be hosting a FREE whole day short film workshop through Impact Inc. on March 14 at the 17th Floor 6750 Ayala Office Tower, Makati. Learn the basics of creating a short film and polish your entries (Short Film Round 1 is extended until April 1, 2009). Seats are limited so register now. 2009 Theme & Millennium Development GoalsThe Eight United Nations Millennium Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals were agreed upon by 189 nations around the world more than eight years ago. They encompass universally accepted human rights such as freedom from hunger, the right to basic education, the right to health, and a responsibility to future generations. We are now more than halfway toward the target date – 2015 – by which the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved. Imagine a world with less poverty, hunger and disease, greater survival prospects for mothers and their infants, better educated children, equal opportunities for women, and a healthier environment; a world in which developed and developing countries worked in partnership for the betterment of all. Now imagine that you are part of the solution.
Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development How will the world look in 2015 if the goals are achieved?
Behind these large numbers are the lives, hopes, and capabilities of people who also seek to end the burden of grinding poverty. 5月6日 Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design Competition Finals
4月22日 Imagine Cup on TV3月18日 Software Design Local FinalistsHello everyone!
We’d like to thank you all for the support you’ve given to our annual technology competition, the Imagine Cup. This year students are challenged to “imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment”. We are pleased to announce this year’s top 5 teams who qualify for the Software Design local finals...
· Team 3*Pi/4 (Project “Ad Hoc”) – Wilhansen Joseph Li (ADMU), Salvador Reyes, Jr. (ADMU), Rodrick Tan (ADMU), coach Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo (ADMU) · Team IMI 2.0 (Project “Cadis”) – Nino Nazareno Galano (Letran), John Alvin Salamat (Letran), Sonny Boy Que (Letran), coach Jan Dizon (Letran) · Team Tala (Project “Tala’s Adventure) – Cesar Antonio Cuaresma (UP), Frederick Badion (PUP), Patricia Marie Ferrer (PCU), coach Jessica Noelle Wong (DLSU) · Team DLS-CSB (Project “Philippine Prairie Watch”) – Arjay Orcasitas (DLS-CSB), Roberto Galang, Jr. (DLS-CSB), Riela Isabel Antonio (DLS-CSB), coach Ebenezer Uy (DLS-CSB) · Team Tibecom (Project “GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out”) – Marion Joren Olmillo (ADMU), Kristine Ester Pascual (ADMU), Victor Patrick Tañedo (ADMU)
We would be showcasing their qualifying entries in our upcoming launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 on April 10-11 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia. They would be presenting their final projects in the local finals on April 14-15 (details and invites to follow). The winning team (and coach) will represent the country and compete with the rest of the world in the Imagine Cup Finals in Paris, France!
We would also like to recognize and congratulate the contestants who joined the other Imagine Cup categories and have advanced to Round 2. This is the final elimination round before they qualify to compete in the finals! Round 2 in all categories ends in May 2.
Embedded Development - This competition challenges teams to go beyond the desktop, and to build a complete hardware and software solution using Windows CE and the hardware provided. Former winners have used their ideas to start their own businesses and to jumpstart their careers.
· Vibrio Vibe – Gihanna Galindez (UP), Ivan John Clement (ADMU), and Paul Stephen Averilla (UP)
Project Hoshimi – Is a game on Artificial Intelligence. You write the code representing the behavior and the strategy of a team of characters going through different types of missions. The results are not only fun to create but also fun to watch as the programs play it out in a virtual 3D environment for all to see.
· Team Flakes – Vince Nunez (DLSU) · Taga La Salle Kami – James Villegas (DLSU), Ross Delantar (DLSU) · MOE – Jean Claude Edualino (UP), Ronald Louie Sadiz (UP)
IT Challenge - The IT Invitational highlights the art and science of developing, deploying, and maintaining IT systems that are efficient, functional, robust and secure. The IT invitational challenges students to demonstrate their proficiency in understanding not only the theory of how Microsoft Windows-based networks and applications work, but also how to keep them working.
· Francis Germiline Veto (DLSU) · Vince Nunez (DLSU) · John Christopher Kiac (DLSU) · Kathrina Anne Molera (DLSU) · Paul Stephen Averilla (UP) · Ross Delantar (DLSU)
All competition categories are closed, except for the Photography Invitational (which closes May 2). This is a team competition that invites students to capture a series of still photos that tell a story and draws an emotional response from their audience. The photo essay should provoke thought and discussion and inspire the audience to take further action to create a sustainable environment. Currently we have teams from UP Diliman, De La Salle – Manila, and DLS College of Saint Benilde in this category.
Best of luck to all! Software Design Local FinalistsHello everyone!
We’d like to thank you all for the support you’ve given to our annual technology competition, the Imagine Cup. This year students are challenged to “imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment”. We are pleased to announce this year’s top 5 teams who qualify for the Software Design local finals...
· Team 3*Pi/4 (Project “Ad Hoc”) – Wilhansen Joseph Li (ADMU), Salvador Reyes, Jr. (ADMU), Rodrick Tan (ADMU), coach Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo (ADMU) · Team IMI 2.0 (Project “Cadis”) – Nino Nazareno Galano (Letran), John Alvin Salamat (Letran), Sonny Boy Que (Letran), coach Jan Dizon (Letran) · Team Tala (Project “Tala’s Adventure) – Cesar Antonio Cuaresma (UP), Frederick Badion (PUP), Patricia Marie Ferrer (PCU), coach Jessica Noelle Wong (DLSU) · Team DLS-CSB (Project “Philippine Prairie Watch”) – Arjay Orcasitas (DLS-CSB), Roberto Galang, Jr. (DLS-CSB), Riela Isabel Antonio (DLS-CSB), coach Ebenezer Uy (DLS-CSB) · Team Tibecom (Project “GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out”) – Marion Joren Olmillo (ADMU), Kristine Ester Pascual (ADMU), Victor Patrick Tañedo (ADMU)
We would be showcasing their qualifying entries in our upcoming launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 on April 10-11 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia. They would be presenting their final projects in the local finals on April 14-15 (details and invites to follow). The winning team (and coach) will represent the country and compete with the rest of the world in the Imagine Cup Finals in Paris, France!
We would also like to recognize and congratulate the contestants who joined the other Imagine Cup categories and have advanced to Round 2. This is the final elimination round before they qualify to compete in the finals! Round 2 in all categories ends in May 2.
Embedded Development - This competition challenges teams to go beyond the desktop, and to build a complete hardware and software solution using Windows CE and the hardware provided. Former winners have used their ideas to start their own businesses and to jumpstart their careers.
· Vibrio Vibe – Gihanna Galindez (UP), Ivan John Clement (ADMU), and Paul Stephen Averilla (UP)
Project Hoshimi – Is a game on Artificial Intelligence. You write the code representing the behavior and the strategy of a team of characters going through different types of missions. The results are not only fun to create but also fun to watch as the programs play it out in a virtual 3D environment for all to see.
· Team Flakes – Vince Nunez (DLSU) · Taga La Salle Kami – James Villegas (DLSU), Ross Delantar (DLSU) · MOE – Jean Claude Edualino (UP), Ronald Louie Sadiz (UP)
IT Challenge - The IT Invitational highlights the art and science of developing, deploying, and maintaining IT systems that are efficient, functional, robust and secure. The IT invitational challenges students to demonstrate their proficiency in understanding not only the theory of how Microsoft Windows-based networks and applications work, but also how to keep them working.
· Francis Germiline Veto (DLSU) · Vince Nunez (DLSU) · John Christopher Kiac (DLSU) · Kathrina Anne Molera (DLSU) · Paul Stephen Averilla (UP) · Ross Delantar (DLSU)
All competition categories are closed, except for the Photography Invitational (which closes May 2). This is a team competition that invites students to capture a series of still photos that tell a story and draws an emotional response from their audience. The photo essay should provoke thought and discussion and inspire the audience to take further action to create a sustainable environment. Currently we have teams from UP Diliman, De La Salle – Manila, and DLS College of Saint Benilde in this category.
Best of luck to all! 3月3日 Tip for Imagine Cup Entries...When formulating your solutions, feel free to research challenges related to this underserved population in your home-country or consider the profile-set below. You have the choice to chose your audience: technology that directly impacts the end-user or serves governments, NGOs and policy makers who can impact the livelihood of these communities. — In these communities, there is a growing penetration of mobile phone usage. — The livelihood of rural people are often land and agriculturally based, rural farmers struggle with crop yield, soil management, use of pesticides and water management. — Consider the special customization of technology due to infrastructure conditions. For example, the lack of housing, roads and inconsistent electricity is common. — There are variable levels of literacy. — The graphic below illustrates where people of the developing world tend to spend their incomes..
You are not required to consider all these points. However, think creatively on how your technology solution can be relevant, sustainable and impactful. 2月27日 Imagine Cup Deadline - Extended!Good news to everyone! Had a great idea but you thought you couldn't make it to the deadline? Worry no more! 'Cause the deadline for the submission of entries for the Software Development Category has been extended! You may submit your entries on or before March 5, 2009. Download the project proposal template here.
1月22日 Microsoft, DENR Announce Kickoff to Imagine Cup 2008, World’s Premier Student Technology CompetitionMicrosoft, DENR Announce Kickoff to Imagine Cup 2008, World’s Premier Student Technology Competition Global competition invites students to apply technology and artistic talents to tackle sustainable environmental issues.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Microsoft Philippines formally presented Imagine Cup 2008 and encouraged students and non-government organizations (NGOs) to unite in tapping technology to address local and global environmental issues.
Now in its sixth year, Imagine Cup continues to challenge students around the globe to imagine a better world empowered by technology and created by their talent and innovation. Microsoft recently opened registration for Imagine Cup 2008, extending an invitation to the most talented students from all over the world to embark on the challenge to “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment."
“We recognize the immense potential of students and their ability to bring about positive change. Each year, we come across hundreds of projects, all showing how technology can help people,” said Tim Vergel de Dios, Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Philippines. ”The Imagine Cup allows students to expand their world and shape the future. Through this competition, Microsoft is driving innovation that is responsive to the needs of the planet.”
Students will compete in nine categories spanning software design and games development to challenges involving algorithms and programming. Students’ work will reflect valuable solutions that give a helping hand to the world’s sustainable environmental issues while giving them the opportunity to compete for generous cash prizes.
Microsoft is calling on young programmers, artists and technologists around the world to bring their ideas to life in nine categories, each catering to a different talent. The Technology Solutions categories such as Software Design, Embedded Development, and Game Development categories challenge students to utilize their creativity to develop practical solutions.
Project Hoshimi, IT Challenge, and Algorithm, under Skills Challenges, highlight the speed and proficiency of teams in creating programs. The ability of teams to communicate ideas in original ways is tested in the Photography, Short Film, and Interface Design categories.
In the Philippines, each team will be paired with an environmental NGO, who will guide the team as it works on the project, by identifying the organization’s needs and the kind of program that could help them perform their tasks more efficiently.
With the assistance of the DENR, Microsoft has tapped environmental NGOs interested in banking on technology for empowerment, to collaborate with the teams in designing and conceptualizing their entry.
“We are inspired to see the youth become interested and involved with caring for the environment because they are our hope for the future,” said Demetrio Ignacio Jr., Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). “Technology is an important aspect of environmental protection and sustainable development. We are very happy to be involved in this initiative and we thank Microsoft. We hope that through this, we will discover young minds and develop technologies that will help people cope with environmental problems.”
According to Vergel de Dios, regardless of how the teams place in the competition, their partner NGOs will be able to utilize the programs developed for them. “The Imagine Cup is not just an opportunity for the students to present their talents. It is also a chance for them to contribute to the efforts being taken to preserve our environment.”
Lisa Antonio, Executive Director, Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE) enlightened students on the numerous applications they could develop for the Imagine Cup. “There is a whole range of NGOs that the teams can work with. Common to all are the challenges that we face: limited resources, organizational efficiency, standardization, efficient networking, and sustainability. There is a lot of work to be done and this can be best accomplished with appropriate technologies, including information technology (IT),” said Antonio.
“Imagine Cup links creative minds with environmental NGOs to develop tools that will enable us to do our work more effectively, if ever sustainable development will become a reality. We look forward to the fruits of this exciting endeavor,” she added.
After advancing through the online, local and regional Imagine Cup competitions, qualifying students are scheduled to convene at the world championships in July 2008 in Paris, France, to present their entries to a panel of judges from academia and the technology industry. The finalists will be selected, and a worldwide winner from each category will be announced. Prizes for Imagine Cup 2008 will total more than $180,000 (U.S.) across the nine categories.
Those interested in participating in Imagine Cup 2007 or seeking additional information can visit http://www.imaginecup.com to register and review full entry requirements for each invitational.
Photo above shows Jay Joson, Developer Platform Evangelist Director, Microsoft Philippines (third from right) and Demetrio Ignacio Jr., Undersecretary for Policy and Planning, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) (fourth from right) joining hands to signify a united effort for the Imagine Cup. The presentation was witnessed by (left to right) Joanna Rodriguez, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Philippines, Tim Vergel de Dios, Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Philippines, and Lisa Antonio, Executive Director, Philippine Business for the Environment (PBE).
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