Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 6 – The Winners Are…
Results from the Awards Ceremony
By Rand Morimoto on Wed, 07/13/11 - 10:54pm.This afternoon, we announced the winners of the Imagine Cup 2011 competition. It’s hard to actually “name” a winner, because ALL of the students have worked extremely hard for the past year, have risen through the ranks of pre-qualifying rounds, and are the best of the best in their country doing incredible things.
But the competition does recognize the top scores, and this year, for the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge that I lead. A quick video that led up to the awards:
The top 3 in the IT Challenge for 2011 are as follows:
- Jean-Sébastien Duchene (France)
- Błażej Matuszyk (Poland)
- Yunheng Mong (Singapore)
The World Festival was welcomed by New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg himself, so wonderful to have him attend and kick off the awards ceremony!
The entire Lincoln Center in New York City was abuzz with all of the competitors excited to be at the worldwide finals and have a chance to be on stage among the best of the best!
To wrap up the worldwide finals, Eva Longoria awarded the People’s Choice Award to the team from Bangladesh!
So the Imagine Cup 2011 competition in New York City wraps up and in just 48-hours we’ll start taking registrants for the 2012 competition which the finals will be held in AUSTRALIA!!! Hopefully Microsoft will invite me back to lead my 8th Imagine Cup competition and I can help drive the success of the competition yet again!
I congratulate ALL of those who competed this past year, and if you are still eligible, to compete again starting this Fall!
Until next year! Rand
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Rand Morimoto has been in the computer industry for more than 30 years and has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing writer for a couple dozen books on Microsoft Windows, Security, Exchange email, BizTalk Server, and remote and mobile computing. Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm that has been one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft, implementing beta versions of Microsoft technologies 2-3 years before the product releases to the public. This provides Rand and the consultants in his company extensive knowledge on the technologies long before the products are generally available.
Besides speaking at more than 50 conferences and conventions around the world in the past year on tips, tricks, and best practices on planning, migrating, and implementing technologies, Rand is also head judge for the worldwide Imagine Cup competition, is a Board member for the Chabot Space and Science Center and planetarium, and a Regent for the Board of Saint Mary's College of California.
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