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    LIONSHARP SOLUTIONS TEAM WINS IMAGINE CUP 2013 ARMENIAN FINAL

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/25422/lionsharp-solutions-team-wins-imagine-cup-2013-armenian-final.html
    15:40, April 12, 2013

    Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC), Microsoft RA, and the USAID-funded
    Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) Project held
    the Armenian final for Imagine Cup 2013 on April 12, 2013.

    After seven 15-minute presentations by competing teams, the Selection
    Committee announced the Lionsharp Solutions team with their Voiceboard
    Project as a winner. The project focuses on a Kinect-based voice
    recognition board that facilitates brainstorming, creative interaction
    and team discussion through voice and gesture commands. Through EDMC
    support, Lionsharp Solutions will represent Armenia at the Imagine
    Cup World Final 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

    The competition was launched on March 20, when student teams of three
    to four members, 16 years and older, were challenged to develop
    inventive projects, innovative software applications, and present
    real-world solutions to real-world problems. Seven applications were
    submitted by April 8, most of which focused on the innovation category
    of the contest.

    Imagine Cup Armenia aims to help students develop new programming/IT
    solutions and/or applications to boost innovation and address global
    issues. The competition gathers the best programming talent in
    Armenia and provides student teams a great opportunity to demonstrate
    and enhance their knowledge and skills in finding solutions to
    real-world problems, developing and bringing their approach to the
    use of technology and software, getting training and consultation
    from seasoned professionals, while also getting a chance to compete
    with their international peers and represent Armenia in the final
    stage of the Imagine Cup.

    During the competition period, MIC Armenia and Microsoft RA teams
    offered technological and business consultations to each team to help
    transform their ideas into feasible projects. EDMC support for the
    Armenian round of the Imagine Cup this year provides the winning team
    participation in the world final, in an effort to nurture start-up
    businesses, promote high-tech solutions for other industries, and
    promote Armenia's high-tech image internationally.

    The award ceremony was attended by First Deputy Minister of Economy
    Karine Minasyan, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A.Heffern,
    representatives of the Armenian IT sector, government, and the
    international community, including Microsoft RA Director Grigor
    Barseghyan, Microsoft Innovation Center Project Manager Yeva Hyusyan,
    and EDMC Project Value Chain Competitiveness Team Leader Fred Levitan.

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