Awardees of the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition!

Imagine Cup 2010 Wraps up in Poland

After a year of intense qualifying rounds, regional and national finals, and onsite competition here in Poland, the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition FINALLY announced the awardees!  (and I’m being very careful calling the teams and individuals awardees instead of winners as these students have ALL worked so hard over the past year to advance this far in the competition, they are ALL winners tonight, it just so happens that the top winners get awards of cash and additional recognition).  So, my congratulations to ALL of the competitors of the 2010 Imagine Cup Competition, it has been a LONG road and a fun week here in Warsaw!

The awardees are as follows:

Imagine Cup 2010 Software Design Competition

First Place:  Thailand – Skeek

Second Place:  Serbia – TFZR

Third Place:  New Zealand – OneBeep

Imagine Cup 2010 Embedded Development Competition

First Place:  Taiwan, SmarterME

Second Place:  Russia, MCPU

Third Place:  France, GERAS

Imagine Cup 2010 Game Design Competition

First Place:  Philippines, By Implication – Wildfire

Second Place:  Belgium, NomNom Productions - Shift

Third Place:  France, Green Gears Studio – Island of Nazeth

Imagine Cup 2010 IT Challenge Competition

First Place:  WeiQiu Wen (China)

Second Place:  Miklos Cari (Bolivia)

Third Place:  Zhengbin Hu (Singapore)

Imagine Cup 2010 Digital Media Competition

First Place:  Mirror Vita - Taiwan

Second Place:  Dreaming Spirits – Saudi Arabia

Third Place:  Woolgathering - Singapore

Internet Explorer 8 Award

First Place:  Rhea – Poland

Second Place:  Little Ritle – Poland

Third Place:  Ciasak – Poland

Next Generation Web Award

First Place:  Wana be Alice - Korea

Interoperability Award

First Place:  Xarmis - Jamaica

Second Place:  Iptiva Team IT - Brazil

Third Place:  Chadradimuka - Indonedia

Touch and Tablet Accessibility Award

First Place:  Team Note-Taker - USA

Second Place:  OneView - USA

Envisioning 2010 Award

First Place:  Team Jiga-Dongxi - Taiwan

Second Place:  Team Kola - India

Third Place:  Target Locked - India

Windows Phone 7 Award

First Place:  BestWare - USA

It has been a GREAT competition and one that has brought together some of the BEST student IT competitors in the world!  I have enjoyed being the competition Captain and head judge of the IT Challenge Competition and a finalist judge for the Software Design Competition this year with the opportunity to visit and experience Poland, a wonderful host country!

We now ready ourselves for the Imagine Cup 2011 Competition that was officially announced this evening that the competition will be held in New York City, USA in the summer of 2011.  First Lady, Michelle Obama, sent a video message welcoming the Imagine Cup to the USA in 2011!  I will be returning as the competition Captain for the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge with more information that’ll be posted up on the main Imagine Cup site at http://www.imaginecup.com over the next 2 months.  For all those Imagine Cup IT competitors following my blog here, it is our intension to bring the IT Challenge back to being onsite during the final competition week of the Imagine Cup, so stay tuned for details as I work with Microsoft to make the 2011 IT competition happen for another year running!

Thank you for all of you following my postings this past week, look forward to having a GREAT Imagine Cup 2011!!!

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