Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012
Team Engine to represent Bangladesh in Sydney
Team Engine poses for photo shoot after winning the contest at the event.
Team Engine from BUET, AIUB and NSU with their project Annapurna won the Microsoft Bangladesh Imagine Cup 2012 champion's award and became eligible to represent Bangladesh in the global contest. They will go to Sydney to compete in the worldwide contest in July. GPIT is the sponsor of the winning team's air ticket. The team members also received Doel laptops from TSS. The national level contest was organised by Microsoft Bangladesh in run-up to the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide contest. The Imagine Cup is the world's premier student technology competition that provides an opportunity for students to learn new skills, make new friends and change the world. From software and video games to mobile apps, teams create technology solutions in several categories of the competition to help improve education, healthcare, the environment and more. To provide inspiration for projects, students may address one or more of the issues outlined by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. North South University's team Leprechaun were announced as 1st runner-up for their Project Beetle while team AUST 4BIT of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology became 2nd runner-up with their project Helping System for Physically Disabled People Using Voice Processing. First and 2nd runners-up team members received Doel laptops from TSS. The announcement of the winning teams and prize giving ceremony was held on Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital. Yafes Osman, state minister for ministry of science and technology attended the event as chief guest while Hasanul Haq Inu, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the posts and telecom ministry was present as special guest. M Nazrul Islam Khan PS to prime minister and national project director of Access to Information, Kjersti Thoen, chief financial officer, GPIT Ltd and Jamie Harper, president of Microsoft South East Asia were also present at the event. Earlier, Microsoft Bangladesh selected 14 teams from about 300 teams from 10 universities across the country based on their project proposals. Nine teams successfully completed their projects by the given deadline. After that Microsoft arranged an event to showcase the projects at DRIK ICT premises in the capital. Later, a panel of experts selected top 3 teams through an evaluation process. The panel also nominated 3 more projects in 'Innovative Idea' category sponsored by GPIT and DRIK ICT. The GPIT Innovative Concept award winners are - Team UIU-Strugglers from United International University for their UIU Bangla OCR project and Team M.O.R from BRAC University for their Eye Controlled Cursor project. Team IIT Phoenix of Institute of IT, University of Dhaka, received DRIK ICT Innovative Concept award for their project Better Together.
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