Imagine Cup 2011 worldwide finalists announced by Microsoft
All the local, regional and national competitions are over and the winners of those Imagine Cup finals are moving on to the World Finals that will be held in New York, New York from July 8 through 13. There are 124 student teams from 73 countries that will competing for the top prize in several categories.
The U.S. Finalists were announced last month so those lucky teams will be moving on to New York. Today’s announcement sets out who the U.S. teams competition will be in nine categories “including Software Design, Embedded Development, Game Design, Digital Media, Windows Phone 7, IT Challenge, Interoperability Challenge, Windows 7 Touch Challenge and the Orchard Challenge.”
Todays finalists were culled from “more than 350,000 students from 183 countries.” Included in the list are teams from several countries that are either in the midst of an ongoing war like Iraq or have undergone recent revolutions like Egypt. Countries that have suffered major disasters earlier this year like Japan and Australia also have teams competing. Even in the midst of tragedy, there will always be those innovating solutions for world problems.
More than ever before, the Imagine Cup finalists have proven themselves to be global citizens extraordinaire as they identify ways to create a better future by using technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. This year’s projects provide avenues for individuals with disabilities to use technology, software to help streamline healthcare in rural communities, solutions to help boost education globally and a whole lot more.
While in New York for the competition the teams will have a chance to meet other teams, attend training sessions and take part in volunteer and cultural opportunities. For those traveling from countries Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, these activities could also produce some culture shock. All participants involved will likely find the Competition to be enlightening, inspiring, and hopefully fun.
Below are the teams that will be competing.
Algeria – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Epsilon
School(s): Ecole Nationale Superieur d’Informatique
Category: Software Design
Project: SurgeReal helps students and surgeons practice basic surgeries by providing a 3D organ image and a step-by-step learning. With a solution much cheaper than its competitors and other simulators, SurgeReal answers a very critical issue faced by surgeons living in difficult areas around the world.
Team: Green Stroumpfs
School(s): Ecole Nationale Superieur d’Informatique
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: I’m Powering gives companies and green installations opportunities to do something for the planet by reducing or cutting off their electricity bill and improving its image after being labeled Green & ecofriendly.
Armenia
Team: X-Tech
School(s): Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Teach Me Now is an interactive process on an educational, group-based exchange platform. The system implies conditions that will interest everyone interested in delivering trainings on an issue and get paid for that and those interested in acquiring new skills and knowledge.
Australia
Team: UCEEG
School(s): Canberra University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: UCEEG provides a faster way for handicapped people to type with the power of thought by using the Emotiv EPOC brain-signal acquisition headset. It can detect mental commands, facial expressions and emotions which are translated to text by mapping the eight strokes of digital digits.
Bangladesh
Team: Rapture
School(s): American International University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: ThirdEye is a smartphone device for the visually impaired. It has camera assistance, a special UI with vibration and speech feedback, voice command and more.
Belgium – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Digitron-WP7
School(s): Campus karel de goedelaan Howest
Category: Windows Phone 7
Project Description: Dregon is a game where players Combat widespread disease. Players must go on a quest to find a potion that will cure the sick to save themselves and their fellow Dregons.
Team: Crash Games
School(s): Campus karel de goedelaan Howest
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project Description: Global Green is a fun and easy to play cartoon styled arcade game. In this game players learn about many global problems while having a lot of fun trying to achieve the highest score for saving the world!
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Team: CPU Team
School(s): Slobomir P University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Coming soon
Brazil – 6 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: LevelUp
School(s): Federal University of Pernambuco
Category: Software Design
Project Description: EduAcademy is a cloud computing educational platform that provides teachers services, communication tools and specialized software for the most distinct situations faced within the learning-teaching environment.
Team: Embedded Brain
School(s): UFPE, Universidade de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal Rual de Pernambuco
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: 1stCareTaker is a monitoring system for patients that implements low-cost hardware integrated to an embedded platform. Patients have their vitals monitored automatically, which eliminates feelings of abandonment and makes service prioritization more effective.
Team: Replay
School(s): Federal University of Pernambuco
Category: Game Design (Windows/Xbox)
Project Description: HopeBlocks brings a fun, exciting and fast-paced game that allows players to take steps towards changing the world by putting the player in charge of organizing people so that they work together and improve their surroundings.
Team: Signum Games
School(s): Universidade Positivo
Category: Game Design (Windows/Xbox)
Project Description: In this game, players create strategies to find the best way to help the world. Their resources are volunteers and money, and players must manage them intelligently.
Team: Quarentaedois
School(s): Universidade Estadual Paulista
Category: Digital Media
Project Description: “Dream” is a short video expressing the team’s hope that people never stop dreaming for a better world. They believe that it is through dreams that technology expands and gives us a better world.
Team: Bells Team
School(s): Federal Univeristy of Pernambuco
Category: Interoperability Challenge
Project Description: #ProDeaf is a mobile application that aims to allow a fluent real-time communication between deaf and non-deaf, anytime and anywhere, converting any speech sounds into sign language and vice versa.
Bulgaria – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Walk2Help
School(s): Technical University of Sofia, New Bulgarian University and Sofia University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project encourages us all to limit our carbon footprint and in the meantime support good causes around the world. It utilizes Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure, Bing Maps and the power of social media.
Team: GreenWorld
School(s): Sofia University, University of Hertfordshire
Category: Game Design (Web)
Project Description: GreenWorld is an online multiplayer game concern the world’s biggest ecological and health problems.
Chile
Team: Lifeware S.A.C.
School(s): Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Coming soon
China – 3 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Care Everyone
School(s): City Institute, Dalian University of Technology
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project aims to provide a convenient and efficient method for physically disabled people to get access to information without barriers. By combining image and speech recognition, they can use computers to surf on-line, communicate with others and play games.
Team: Harmonicare
School(s): Tsinghua University
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: Harmonicare is lung training equipment based on a harmonica. This device converts boring respiratory training into entertainment; it can improve a user’s health situation and bring great fun and sense of achievement.
Team: Xuewen Tian
School(s): Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Colombia
Team: Freakin’ Mind
School(s): Universidad Icesi
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: S8VER is a technological tool that aims to address the high mortality rates when natural disasters occur by flying over the areas affected by natural disasters and identifying survivors that need to be rescued.
Costa Rica
Team: CarPooling Mate Finder
School(s): Universidad de Costa Rica, Campus Tacares
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project is a solution using Windows Phone 7, social networks, and eventually Azure to help people find groups for carpooling based on the routes people take everyday.
Croatia
Team: Apptenders
School(s): Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Category: Software Design
Project Description: KiDnect is a technology to aid in physical therapy for children with cerebral palsy.
Cyprus
Team: iDoc
School(s): University of Cyprus
Category: Software Design
Project Description: A WP7 application that allows the user to diagnose any health related problems he/she may have. It is integrated with Bing Maps, providing the user the ability to view a list of doctors that are specialized in the specific area based on the user’s current location.
Czech Republic– 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Celebrio Software
School(s): Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Celebrio is an operating system designed specifically for the elderly. It also helps people with low vision, bad dexterity or technophobia by giving users a natural way to control a computer through touch.
Team: WickedTeam
School(s): Brno University of Technology
Category: Game Design (Windows/Xbox)
Project Description: In this game, players extinguish fires as fast as they can and thus save the largest area of forest possible. In case that there are civilians in danger, they have to find ways to evacuate them.
Ecuador
Team: Falcon Dev
School(s): Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Skillbox consists of an affordable and accessible solution to teach children with disabilities; it aims to improve the living conditions with hearing loss or motor disabilities by providing a viable solution through stimulating the senses and the ability to learn while they play.
Egypt – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Cairo Team 3
School(s): Faculty of Computers And Information – Cairo University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project is an online system that can be accessed by a mobile application and a web browser that gives patients the ability to look for a doctor, set an appointment and read about their medical condition in Arabic. Also gives doctors have the ability to develop electronic medical records for their patients and move away from paper records.
Team: Ideas 4 u
School(s): Ain Shams University, Computer and Systems Engineering
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: Now I See is a system that serves as an extra set of eyes for someone who is visually impaired. Rather than relying on someone else to describe objects and colors, this device is able to do that.
Finland
Team: 25k
School(s): Turku University Of Applied Sciences
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Vigilis software is a tool for parents to keep a watchful eye on their children in a world where socializing is done with the press of a button and provides children with the ability to immediately document any cyberbullying or sexual harassment they experience online or via mobile.
France – 6 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Dream’n'Touch
School(s): École FRançaise d’Électronique et d’Informatique
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The eBakPak was designed with a pretty simple idea in mind: be as close as possible to a real back pack. Therefore it embeds the majority of tools any pupil can have in his or her backpack in a single application.
Team: Give Me 4
School(s): École FRançaise d’Électronique et d’Informatique
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: LinkTV is a project that aims to help elderly people, or simply isolated people, to connect with others thanks to the realization of 4 modules: Messaging, Video / Photo, Video-conferencing, and social activities.
Team: Close World Mobile
School(s): Epitech
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project Description: Hilomi is a little child living on a peaceful planet along with other species, one of which doesn’t pay attention to the planet. She cannot accept it and thus decided to change their behaviour. The game is a puzzle-platformer running on Windows Phone 7. The touchscreen is used to interact with the game elements and solve the puzzles.
Team: Geekologic
School(s): Ingesup, Supinfogame
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project Description: Brainergy is a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game in which the player has to solve different challenges based on renewable energy. Immersed in a realistic universe, the player has to use strategy to win through each level. From the beginning of the adventure, you are confronted by a very polluted world and will need to use renewable energy to clean it.
Team: Jean-Sebastien Duchene
School(s): Supinfo International University
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Germany – 3 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: majiRanger
School(s): Dresden University of Technology
Category: Software Design
Project Description: majiSolution is a data management system for efficient drinking water supply in African countries.
Team: JOFNET
School(s): Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: JOFNET is an automatic job adviser for day laborers especially designed for the poorest people in developing countries.
Team: Alexander Wachtel
School(s): Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Greece – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Epione
School(s): School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Epione is an integrated system for managing pain (both physical and emotional) developed in .NET environment and based on the Azure platform.
Team: alaniarides
School(s): Athens University of Economics and Business
Category: Interoperability Challenge
Project Description: Touring Machine is an innovative platform designed to offer a new kind of experience in culture for adults and children. It is a personalized, highly customizable tour guide which conforms to the visitor’s characteristics and demands.
India – 3 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Infiniti
School(s): University College of Engineering, Punjabi University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Patiala provides numerous assistive technology features to give disabled people (especially those who are visually impaired) easier access to information on the internet.
Team: Drushti
School(s): V.E.S. Institute of Technology
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: Provides visually impaired users a natural way of interacting with a computing device via a proposed tactile grid. Drushti means ‘sight” in Hindi, one of India’s most-used languages.
Team: Green Uno
School(s): Madurai Kamaraj University, University of Bermingham
Category: Digital Media
Project Description: This project proposes to implant individual sensors with the aid of robots as a fool-proof mechanism against tree felling to ensure continuous monitoring on a global scale. Under such unique id system, every tree can reclaim to its right to grow, mature and blossom.
Indonesia – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Gatotkaca
School(s): Telkom Institute of Technology
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Offers a simple solution for malnutrition issue by giving information access and first-stage malnutrition detection to community through a mobile-phone application.
Team: MACARA
School(s): University of Indonesia
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: The goal of EDCOS is to reduce the energy crisis and malnutrition through the breeding of algae to help reduce the effects of global warming.
Iraq
Team: Hawk
School(s): American University of Iraq- Sulaimani
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The Refugee Welfare project is a secure system for registering refugees and their welfare needs like health care monitoring, education and facilitating aid distribution. It provides a mobile way for staff and users with little training to enter data relevant to the needs of the refugees.
Ireland
Team: Hermes
School(s): Institute Of Technology Sligo
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project uses embedded technology, mobile devices and cloud computing technology to change driving habits and reduce road deaths.
Italy
Team: Nea Soft
School(s): University Frederico Secondo of Naples
Category: Software Design
Project Description: OMCR supports users with severe disabilities by enabling them to the use of the personal computer. It helps them to communicate, learn and play without relying on traditional interaction devices such as a mouse and keyboard.
Japan – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: MI3
School(s): Dosisha University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Assists independent solutions, with the help of Windows Azure, for local residents by solving for a shortage of doctors in some areas of Africa.
Team: SunDonation
School(s): Kyoto University of Technology, Salesian Polytechnic, Osaka Municipal College of Design
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: This new donation system utilizes touch display and digital signage to enable residents to donate to charities by watching an advertisement rather than giving money out of pocket.
Jordan
Team: Oasys
School(s): German Jordanian University, Petra University, Princess Sumaya University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This affordable and innovative system allows quadriplegia disabled patients to control a computer with their head.
Korea – 4 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Four Leaf Clover
School(s): SeJong University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project is a dream hub portal for donation and a communication platform.
Team: Link Your Passion
School(s): National University
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: This device helps people locate clean water in an effort to reduce child mortality.
Team: HOMERUN
School(s): Dongguk University, Samgmyung University
Category: Windows Phone 7
Project Description: Peekaboo enables members to communicate efficiently without limits of space and time with a system that combines a treasure-hunt game with a private network dedicated to family.
Team: Zipi Zigi
School(s): Seoul National University of Technology, Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea University of Technology and Education, Ewha Women’s University
Category: Windows Phone 7
Project Description: Hot Potato fights indifference by showing users where and when local problems are happening through Bing Maps. As more and more people look in to the matter, the spot gets bigger, suggesting the importance of the event and increasing public awareness.
Kuwait
Team: SWAP Team
School(s): American University of Kuwait
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Revolutionary Reporting System is a simple image reporting software that uses geographic location tagging on images for reporting accidents, environmental hazards, theft and medical emergencies.
Lebanon
Team: D4W
School(s): American University of Beirut
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Tale of a Tree Wisp raises awareness about the environment in developing countries by building an experience designed to deeply impact as many people as possible.
Malaysia
Team: Cyber Knightz
School(s): UCTI University, Asia Pacific University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Health3 system helps cancer patients monitor their health, treatment and diets, and helps them and their loved ones reach out to online resources and to others in a similar situation.
Mexico - 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Ibero Mexico
School(s): Universidad Iberoamericana
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Project Brain is designed to make people, particularly children of developing nations, aware of environmental issues.
Team: Fomis Phone Team
School(s): Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project Description: The Chronicles of Balam is a 3D adventure game where players assume the role of a young jaguar who must improve the world to earn Millennium Insignias.
Morocco
Team: Whitelight
School(s): École Marocaine des Sciences de l’Ingénieur
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Whitelight is a set of applications to guide the blind from Point A to Point B using vocal instructions. It also offers tools to help family/NGOs to stay connected with the blind.
Netherlands
Team: Olife
School(s): Delft University of Technology, TU/e, Rotterdam University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The City Cloud is a cloud computing platform that brings together different kinds of data generated by its inhabitants, businesses and government, with the goal of providing the first steps towards a self-regulating city.
New Zealand
Team: OneBuzz
School(s): University of Auckland
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This project focuses on tackling malaria with sophisticated technology that identifies areas of high risk and provides real-time information to those concerned to act accordingly.
Nigeria
Team: Nerds Inc.
School(s): Federal University of Technology
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Project Medicare enables communication between a doctor and patient over long distances, where doctors are unable to have physical contact with their patients. Doctors can make a diagnosis from the patient’s data, which is input in the Medicare system.
Oman – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Edunology
School(s): Sultan Qaboos University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Project “HELP me Educate Others” enables donors to participate in educating less fortunate individuals in the world, acting as a hub between the helper, the school and the student being financed.
Team: Brothers forever
School(s): Sultan Qaboos University
Category: Digital Media
Project Description: The video, narrated by a man from the future, shows us a better future with a great invention that can help reduce pollution by filtering smoke and toxins from the air.
Pakistan – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: V3C
School(s): FAST– National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences – Islamabad
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Project “Voice Controlled Cellular System for Special Citizen” is designed to enable physically handicapped and blind users to operate a computer with voice controls.
Team: The Pioneers
School(s): Lahore University of Management Sciences
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: Project CleverGrid enables better power distribution and management for the developing world, using smart-meters and an embedded supplier power-monitoring system.
Palestinian Authorities
Team: Vital Dreams
School(s): Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU)
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The project uses a speech recognition technology to translate the user’s questions to text, search for the answer on the internet and then spell it out to the user. It is designed for people without an education, children and individuals with disabilities.
Peru
Team: Nawy Harkay
School(s): Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The project enables users to operate Windows 7, with minimal effort, using their eyes (instead of their hands).
Philippines – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: polymor.ph
School(s): Ateneo De Manila University, Del La Salle University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Coming soon
Team: Signum Fidei
School(s): De La Salle University
Category: Game Design (Web)
Project Description: Conjunct! was developed using HTML 5 and represents social issues and problems as puzzles in different locations around the world.
Poland – 5 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: CodeRaiders
School(s): Polytechnika Lodzka
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Coming soon
Team: WCY_TEAM
School(s): Wojskowa Akademia Technicza
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: COP4CE combines a portable device and a central command center system to enable police and rescue unit coordination and support.
Team: Cellardoor
School(s): Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza
Category: Game Design (Web)
Project Description: “The Book of Elm” illustrates the importance of taking care of environment in everyday life, through the interactive story of Elm, a creature on a quest to fix the mistakes done by people around the world. This game was developed using Silverlight.
Team: DemosceneSpirit
School(s): Uniwerstytet Adama Mickiewicza W Poznaniu
Category: Interoperability Challenge
Project Description: This is a project to help prevent and respond to devastating floods.
Team: Blazej Matuszyk
School(s): Poznan University of Technology
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Portugal
Team: RescueMe
School(s): Instituto Politecnico Do Cavado E Do Ave
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Helps disaster rescue teams coordinate their forces on the ground and provide better distribution of resources.
Puerto Rico
Team: Team A41
School(s): Universidad Metropolitana, Sistema Ana G. Mendez
Category: Software Design
Project Description: “All 4 One Solutions” is designed to increase awareness and community participation in addressing environmental and social issues.
Romania – 4 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Simplex
School(s): Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant (MIRA) is an application to enable people suffering from temporary handicap to recover interactively at a faster pace. Also enables doctors or specialized medical personnel to facilitate the recovery process for their patients.
Team: Endeavour_Design
School(s): Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: An intelligent robotic system designed to automatically avoid obstacles and find its way back to its control signal when it loses contact with its human operator.
Team: M.N.A.
School(s): NW College London, Universitatea Bucuresti
Category: Digital Media
Project Description: Asks the question: What if technology suddenly became available to those less fortunate? What if technology could offer the ones without food or shelter a new chance to a better life?
Team: Sinescu Ionut
School(s): Alexandru Ioan University
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Russia – 3 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Oriteam
School(s): Moscow Aviation Institute
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Oricrafter is a multi-touch system that supports creating and exchanging origami.
Team: Calvus
School(s): Saratov State Technical University
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: An embedded device to automatically control the very specific environmental conditions for the breeding and rearing of larval axolotl, a kind of animal used in stem cells research.
Team: CRS
School(s): Yaroslavl State University
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project Description: “Cleaney: Smiley who saved the earth” is a game for kids age 2 to 5 years to learn about the world around them and how to treat the environment.
Senegal
Team: CYAN GIRLS
School(s): L’ecole polytechnique de Dakar
Category: Software Design
Project Description: A project around agriculture, fishing and breeding that allows all the actors of these sectors to interact to reduce extreme poverty and hunger, enable gender equality, and preserve the environment
Serbia
Team: 4K-join
School(s): University Of Novi Sad
Category: Software Design
Project Description: HAUS project helps consumers manage their monthly energy bills by optimizing their electrical energy and non-replenishable resource consumption.
Singapore – 4 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: ElderGuardian
School(s): Temasek Polytechnic
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The Elder Rehabilitation Support System (ERSS) uses Kinect™ for Xbox 360 to aid in stroke rehabilitation and recovery, with exercises specifically designed for stroke patients.
Team: Skynet
School(s): Nanyang Polytechnic
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: L.O.C.U.S is a low-cost system for retrieving and collating data in post-disaster situations.
Team: Yunheng Mong
School(s): Nanyang Polytechnic
Category: IT Challenge
Project Description: This proposal establishes a technological infrastructure for a foundation to support its grant funding process, based on Microsoft technologies.
Team: Code Instincts
School(s): Tamesek Polytechnic
Category: Windows Phone 7
Project Description: The Recyclocator mobile application makes recycling more convenient by enabling users to locate the nearest recycling bin using a Windows Phone 7 device.
Slovakia – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Zippers
School(s): Technicka Univerzita V Kosiciach
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Coming soon
Team: Quegee Team
School(s): Slovak University of Technology
Category: Game Design (Web)
Project Description: Developed on a Silverlight platform, the Green Game challenges players to solve common environmental issues using new and exciting technologies, intelligent devices and unusual ideas, each of which may have unexpected positive or negative consequences.
Slovenia
Team: 2ndsight
School(s): University Of Maribor, Feri
Category: Software Design
Project Description: This software for smart phones makes everyday life easier. The solution is based on the adjusted user interface to blind and partially sighted people, so they can easily access to various applications and menus on their devices.
South Africa
Team: Komodo1
School(s): University of Cape Town
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Project HAWK is a crowd-sourced, collaborative information-aggregation, reporting and geo-visualisation system geared towards community-centric disaster management and neighborhood improvement.
Spain – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Software4life
School(s): Castilla La Mancha University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The project, named WaterSense, aims to bring drinkable water to the poorest areas of the world, with a 3-layer structure that gives support to the volunteers of the area, ONGs manage projects and get donations and a social media component allows citizens to give money and see the result of their donations.
Team: Argitech
School(s): Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: Intelligent Lighting System (Smart Light) is a public street lighting management system that collects data from the status of the street and lights them according to their specific needs (rather than by the time of day), which results in a reduction of power consumption.
Sri Lanka
Team: Pera Soft
School(s): University of Peradeniya
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Pera Soft’s project, Hear through Eyes is a solution designed to enable the hearing impaired to rely on visual aid for many channels of communication and to aid education.
Sweden
Team: Life Map
School(s): Uppsala Universitet
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Life Map helps make the world a little better by making it easier for people to donate money to charity organizations.
Switzerland
Team: Texting4All
School(s): Hendrik Knoch
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The EasySMS application empowers illiterate people to read, compose and send text messages to their contacts through text-to-speech solutions.
Taiwan – 3 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Miner
School(s): Taipei University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: The project, Adeona aims to aid in the search for missing children and aged persons to ease the search and rescue mission within the first 24 hour golden window through innovative visual data mining and information extraction techniques.
Team: NTHUCS
School(s): National Tsing Hua University
Category: Embedded Development
Project Description: National Tsing Hua University has given an old technology a new application. With an eBox at the core, team NTHUCS is taking the classic routing problem to help solve the challenges of evacuations and increase public safely.
Team: Cottoncandy
School(s): National Taipei University of Technology
Category: Digital Media
Project Description: This team tells the story of many species becoming extinct because of the “HIPPO dilemma” and shows viewers how they can help with animal conservation.
Thailand – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: NewKrean
School(s): Chulalongkorn University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Terra allows disaster victims to broadcast their location through social networks such as Facebook with one click in the event of a disaster, to alert rescue workers, friends and family to their exact location.
Team: JubJub
School(s): Mahidol University
Category: Game Design (Windows/Xbox)
Project Description: Junk Master: The Journey to Junk Lord is a creative and innovative game with challenging and fun game play; moreover, it can educate the player about garbage classification and 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle).
Trinidad & Tobago
Team: Codec
School(s): University of the Southern Caribbean
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Education Elevated through Technology enhances the motivation and communication level of the three major stakeholders in education: teachers, parents and students.
Tunisia
Team: Sight Browser
School(s): Engineering school of Gabes
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Sight Browser targets people with vision impairments, achieving a tool tailored to meet their stringent criteria is necessary to ensure that blind and partially sighted people can benefit access to the internet as well as the regular people.
Turkey
Team: Co2ncerned
School(s): Bahcesehir University
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Co2ncerned created a system where individuals and corporations calculate their CO2 emissions and balance it by donating to environmental projects. CO2ncerned is a common platform for environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
Uganda (East & South Africa)
Team: Quest-0
School(s): Makerere University College of Science; Makerere University College of Computing and Informatics
Category: Software Design
Project Description: Crimex a desktop, mobile and web based system focuses on crime pattern analysis in developing countries. Crimex provides a unique solution for law enforcers; ranging from crime pattern recognition to facial recognition capabilities.
Ukraine – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: DashPoint
School(s): Odessa Computer Academy “Step”
Category: Software Design
Project: Enables people who are both deaf and blind to communicate with the world through the use of special vibration device connected to computer.
Team: Digital Dream
School(s): IT Academy Step, Kharkov
Category: Digital Media
Project: The project works to reverse the problem of at-home injuries sustained by children. These injuries include scalds and burns with electric stoves, cuts with sharp knives and forks, electric shocks with habitual home appliances and chemical burns with different solvents or medicines.
United Arab Emirates
Team: The Hex Pistols
School(s): University of Wollongong in Dubai
Category: Software Design
Project: MomEcare is a mobile application that will assist medical staff to give quality medical assistance to pregnant women by guiding them through the steps of performing a checkup themselves since they are unable to go to a hospital.
United Kingdom – 2 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Project OVE
School(s): University of Manchester
Category: Software Design
Project: A solution that aims to bring together world problems and people who volunteer to solve them in a fresh and innovative way, using the latest Microsoft platforms and an interesting twist on peer-to-peer networking.
Team: Cycling into Trees
School(s): University of York
Category: Embedded Development
Project: Child Sleep Safe uses a mixture of embedded hardware, software, and home automation systems that aims to reduce cot death numbers by monitoring a baby while sleeping.
United States – 5 teams attending the Worldwide Finals
Team: Note-Taker
School(s): Arizona State University
Category: Software Design
Project: A portable device that helps visually-impaired students by utilizing a touch-based tablet connected to a camera that shows the whiteboard on one half of the screen and allows notes to be taken on the other half.
Team: Syntax Errors
School(s): Santiago Canyon College
Category: Embedded Development
Project: This self-contained mobile workstation based on an embedded RTOS platform and managed code application allows emergency workers to track assets such as medical suppliers, water, food, and personnel in real time during emergency relief efforts.
Team: Lifelens
School(s): University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Business, University of California Davis, Harvard Business School, University of Central Florida
Category: Windows Phone 7
Project: Lifelens is an innovative point-of-care tool to diagnose malaria using an augmented mobile smartphone application. The project addresses the unacceptably high child mortality rates caused by the lack of detection and availability of treatment of malarial diseases.
Team: Dragon
School(s): Rice University
Category: Game Design (Mobile)
Project: Azmo the Dragon is a game that helps children learn about their asthma as they play as a dragon who destroys civilizations.
Team: ICsquared
School(s): Ithaca College
Category: Game Design (Web)
Project: Developed on an HTML5 platform, Embryonic is a combination of arcade style games to promote awareness and education of maternal health. The player is put in charge of protecting an unborn child, including ensuring the umbilical cord and nutrients being delivered; the game also provides an awareness of rudimentary genetics.
Venezuela
Team: UCV-Ideas
School(s): Central University of Venezuela
Category: Software Design
Project: This is a product to help people connect online while developing an information-sharing environment for people to help each other recycle items and material that is no longer used but still valuable for other uses and needs.
Vietnam
Team: MIGI
School(s): Hanoi University of Technology
Category: Software Design
Project: Migi is an online community web site to share used items (personal items, furniture, equipment, etc.). Migi makes giving, receiving and using of second-hand/brand-new items become simple, fun and accessible to everyone. Migi is built on ASP.net MVC, Bing, jQuery, Windows Phone 7 and FaceBook SDK.
Orchard Challenge Winners
First Place- Country: Denmark
Team: MP Brun
School(s): Aarhus University
Project: Created a way for website administrators to make content more accessible on any internet browser.
Second-Place Country: Brazil
Team: Virtual Dreams – Orchard
School(s): Escola Politecnica Da Universidade De Sao Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Project Description: A solution to help blog readers take an immediate call to action rather than just reading information about a particular issue.
Third-Place Country: Serbia
Team: Zveen Zveen Team
School(s): Metroplitian University and Tehnicki Fakultet Mihajilo Pupin
Project Description: Project eSchool enables fast and effective publishing of learning materials online, which allow teachers to be more productive by allowing students to have access to learning material at school and home.
Windows 7 Touch Challenge Winners
First Place- Country: France
Team: University of Orleans
School(s): India Rose
Project: The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) helps in developing relationships with autistic people (and children in particular). The advent of computer science and Touch Screen technology will make this method more accessible to children.
Second-Place Country: Indonesia
Team: _dreambender_
School(s): Telkom Institute of Technology
Project Description: Sparkins is a Touch-based solution to help visually impaired children learn the Perkins Brailler. It works exactly like the Perkins Brailler, but uses a multi-touch support tablet PC empowered by Windows 7 Touch.
Third-Place Country: Japan
Team: IUVO
School(s): Senior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba
Project Description: Scriboo is a touch-based application for Tablet PCs that helps hearing-impaired people communicate with others. It behaves like a touch-and-mobile-suited intelligent paper, providing a completely new writing-based communication method.
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