Winners of Global Student Embedded Developer Competition Announced
Portable Design News, Tuesday August 05, 2008
Microsoft has announced the winner(s) of the Imagine Cup 2008 Embedded Development competition. Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition, and one way Microsoft is encouraging young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world.
Out of a field of 300 teams from 30 countries, team Singapore Trailblazers was recognized for their project, Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) by a panel of Microsoft and industry judges as having the created the most innovative device that fit this year’s theme, “Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment.” Team Singapore’s project EMS is a low cost, low-maintenance and self-sustainable autonomous environmental monitoring robotic system that is able to provide high-quality environmental data in real time.
The team was awarded $15,000 for their winning design.
Tied for second place were the National University of Ireland, project Voila and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, project AquaMarine. Poznan University of Technology, project Ecopteron took third place. These teams will also receive cash awards ranging from $10,000 to $5,000.
More information is available at www.imaginecup.com.
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (425) 882-8080 [www.microsoft.com]
