Imagine Cup 2008

Hi Sustainability Champions,

I thought of writing about the Imagine Cup 2008:

Here are the excerpts :

PARIS – July 8, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2008 at the Musée du Louvre, after a week of intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions. Celebrating first place, Australia’s Team SOAK won the worldwide Software Design invitational, Singapore’s Team Trail Blazers won the Embedded Development invitational, and Brazil’s Mother Gaia Studio won the Game Development challenge. Imagine Cup, the world’s premier competition for technology students, gives students the chance to unlock their creative genius and build solutions that tackle real-world issues facing society today.

Details are available in their website : http://imaginecup.com/About/News.aspx

Watch out details of the competiting students across the world and their Sustainability Project summary at : http://imaginecup.com/competition/finalists.aspx

The Australian team became the winners developing SOAK (Smart Operational Agriculture toolKit), the Indian team led by Saili Dharia, Krunal Dedhia, Paras Doshi, Veenit Mavani (Students of VESIT) developed the product “Kalpavriksha” to solve food shortage problem of the world  :

www.kalpvriksha.info

I am sure reading their project overview will trigger many more ideas into your innovative minds..Happy Ideation, who knows the next years winner could be someone from your college with you as mentor So what are you thinking …read the ideas and lets brainstorm ?

Just remember no idea is too crazy !!!

Cheers,

Rajat