Tonight (October 26th) Microsoft will be on campus at West Virginia University to talk about the Imagine Cup.
The competition, which was started four years ago, has more than 100,000 participants from more than 100 countries. Each year has a different theme which students focus on for their projects, he said. This year’s theme is “Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all.”
“It gets students to think about worldwide issues and how technology can help them,” Sines said. There are three categories in which students can compete and three individual competitions within each category, he said. The …read more

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 …read more