The Imagine Cup
August 13, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 7, 2006 – For many students who participate in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition, the experience extends beyond the classroom and becomes a launch pad for a career in information technology. In its fourth year, Imagine Cup is a worldwide technology competition designed to provide opportunities for university students to help define the future of technology, software and computing by designing software with real-world applicability.
It’s stuff like this that makes me wish I would have grown up and went to school in a larger city. Of course, I probably would have had to try a lot harder as well now wouldn’t I.
This contest reminds me of the Code4Bill competition, but this is open to teenagers college students around the world who compete in teams representing their home countries.
You can read more about this year’s competition via the press release on Microsoft’s site.
The teams in the Imagine Cup are college students. At the national level they generally represent their college/university. These teams do some great things. In the past some of the top teams have taken their Imagine Cup projects and created businesses around them.
Thanks Alfred for catching that for me. I read that and then immediately had the thought of me in high school and just goofed it up. Thanks for keeping me on my toes.