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    Alpha Sphere team to represent Armenia in international finals of
    Imagine Cup


    2008-05-05 20:11:00


    ArmInfo. The Alpha Sphere team will represent Armenia in the finals of
    the international students' competition Imagine Cup 2008, which will
    take place in Paris in June 2008. Armenian Economy Minister Nerses
    Yeritsyan handed a certificate to this team consisting of 5 young
    specialists who passed the third stage of the contest and worked out a
    project on recovery of waste by means of innovations.

    Grigor Barseghyan, Microsoft RA Country Manager, expressed content with
    the work of all the teams and noted that Imagine Cup is a wonderful
    chance for Armenia to present its serious potential in IT sphere. "This
    is a good opportunity for young people to present their ideas, projects
    to large international companies", he stressed. Barseghyan promised
    that from now on Armenia will annually participate in Imagine Cup.
    "Though it is a new aspect of life for Armenia, we'll exert every type
    of effort to turn our participation in the competition into a pleasant
    tradition, annually involving more and more young people", he said.

    The director of the Enterprises Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan
    said that the main selection criteria were innovativeness and technical
    potential. "All the works were excellent and deserved victory. We were
    amazed that the guys had managed to prepare so serious products in just
    six months," Yengibaryan said. Besides the trip to Paris, the winners
    have been granted 450,000 AMD. The second and third place winners have
    got certificates and 450,000 AMD each. To recall, the subject of the
    competition is "Imagine a world where technologies help improve the
    environment". The local contests were held in Armenia in three stages,
    starting from December 20, 2007. At that time a total of 9 teams were
    formed, with four members in each of them.

    To note, this project is implemented in Armenia with the support of Bi
    Line, Synopsis Armenia, Unicomp and the Union of Informational
    Technology Enterprises. The competition Imagine CUP supported and
    organized in Armenia by the Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project
    (CAPS) is a large international technology competition for students. It
    gives them a chance to present their ideas and works in IT sphere. The
    project demonstrates the capabilities of the software in settlement of
    real problems.
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