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TECH SQUAD TEAM TO REPRESENT ARMENIA AT IMAGINE CUP-2009
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18.05.2009 20:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Imagine Cup-2009 Annual International Contest award
ceremony was held today. The winners were awarded with $1500 for the
1st place, 2nd and 3rd places - $1000 and $700 accordingly.
Tech Squad Team, who became the winner of qualifying contest, will
represent Armenia at Imagine Cup-2009 to be held in Kairo. The winner
will offer a program enabling to relieve the strain in hands after
lengthy typing on keypad.
The Imagine Cup is an annual worldwide series of technology
competitions focused around Microsoft technology. The competition
has been running for over 7 years. Each year the World finals were
being held in different countries. There are 9 different directions
to compete with in the scope of Imagine Cup project. One out of nine
directions, Software Design (SD) is executed on regional bases. The
regional finalists are being promoted to the World Final. The rest
8 challenges are online competitions.
This year, for the second time, SD will be executed on regional
bases in Armenia by Microsoft local office and in cooperation with
Ministry of Economy of Armenia, Enterprise Incubator Foundation and
CAPS project. It is a chance for the country's young professionals to
compete with like-minded peers and to be recognized for the technical
abilities by industry leaders and academics. Further to regional
competition the most successful entries advance to the worldwide
final in Cairo, Egypt in July 2009.
The competition challenges talented teams to develop inventive
projects, by developing innovative software applications, offer
practical applicability to the suggested issues and present real-world
solutions to real-world problems.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.05.2009 20:38 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Imagine Cup-2009 Annual International Contest award
ceremony was held today. The winners were awarded with $1500 for the
1st place, 2nd and 3rd places - $1000 and $700 accordingly.
Tech Squad Team, who became the winner of qualifying contest, will
represent Armenia at Imagine Cup-2009 to be held in Kairo. The winner
will offer a program enabling to relieve the strain in hands after
lengthy typing on keypad.
The Imagine Cup is an annual worldwide series of technology
competitions focused around Microsoft technology. The competition
has been running for over 7 years. Each year the World finals were
being held in different countries. There are 9 different directions
to compete with in the scope of Imagine Cup project. One out of nine
directions, Software Design (SD) is executed on regional bases. The
regional finalists are being promoted to the World Final. The rest
8 challenges are online competitions.
This year, for the second time, SD will be executed on regional
bases in Armenia by Microsoft local office and in cooperation with
Ministry of Economy of Armenia, Enterprise Incubator Foundation and
CAPS project. It is a chance for the country's young professionals to
compete with like-minded peers and to be recognized for the technical
abilities by industry leaders and academics. Further to regional
competition the most successful entries advance to the worldwide
final in Cairo, Egypt in July 2009.
The competition challenges talented teams to develop inventive
projects, by developing innovative software applications, offer
practical applicability to the suggested issues and present real-world
solutions to real-world problems.