Imagine Cup 2009 winners announced. Poland will host IC in 2010

Imagine Cup 2009 finals have been held in Cairo, Egypt this year. Poland will host Imagine Cup in 2010. Winners (software design category) are Romanians, while Croatia has topped first places in two categories as a smallest country (by population) to reach the finals. So, here is a list of all winners in their categories.

After an intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 300,000 students from more than 100 countries and regions, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2009. Celebrating first place, Romania’s Team SYTECH won the worldwide Software Design invitational, South Korea’s Team Wafree won the Embedded Development invitational and Brazil’s Team LEVV It won the Game Development challenge.

Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition, empowers students to unlock their creative genius and build solutions that tackle real-world issues facing society today.

Official Microsoft Press Release can be read here.

As for winners in all categories, here is the complete list:

Software Design

First place: Romania — SYTECH

Second place: Russia — Vital Lab

Third place: Brazil — Virtual Dreams

Embedded Development

First place: South Korea — Wafree

Second place: China — iSee

Third place: Ukraine — Intellectronics

Game Development

First place: Brazil — LEVV It

Second place: United States — Epsylon Games

Third place: United Kingdom — Sanquine Labs

Robotics and Algorithm

First place: Czech Republic — Lukáš Perůtka

Second place: Canada — Byron Knoll

Third place: China — Lin Fuming

IT Challenge

First place: Romania — Cosmin Ilie

Second place: China — Wu Chang

Third place: Bolivia — Miklos Cari Sivila

MashUp

First place: United States — CURIOS

Second place: Poland — Monastery of Innovations

Third place: Singapore — PlanetKY

Photography

First place: Croatia —Voodoo Delirium

Second place: Singapore — Woolgathering

Third place: Japan — Terada

Short Film

First place: United Kingdom — Fulham Four

Second place: India — ChennaiCoolers

Third place: Ukraine — Just4Fun

Design

First place: Brazil — Willburn

Second place: United States — eXchangeFun

Third place: France — Paindepices

Achivement Awards

In addition to the category awards, 10 Achievement Awards were presented:

Interoperability Award

The Interoperability Award is designed to recognize the software application that best leverages out-of-the-box Microsoft technologies and blends them with other technologies to connect people, data or diverse systems in a new way. This award was won by:

First Place: Brazil — Proativa Team

Second Place: Poland — Fteams

Third Place: Jordan — ECRAM

Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award

This award challenges students to create a software solution that can be accessed from a basic mobile phone and designed to meet the needs of end users who earn less than $8 (U.S.) a day. This award was won by:

First Place: Malaysia — COSMIC

Second Place: China — Unique Studio

Third Place: Malaysia — Capricorn

Unlimited Potential MultiPoint Education Award

This award encourages students to unlock new ways for the PC to help address universal education goals. This award was won by:

First Place: India — Trailblazers

Accessibility Award

Students are challenged to design a technology solution that leverages people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities. This award was won by:

First Place: Saudi Arabia — ATST

Accessible Design Award

Students who participated in the Design competition were awarded additional recognition for a technology solution that best addressed accessibility needs. This award was won by:

First Place: United States — eXchangeFun

Parallel Computing Award

Parallel applications can open a door to the future, and this award challenges students to use parallel technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. This award was won by:

First Place: India — Biollel

Tablet Accessibility Award

The objective of the Tablet Accessibility Award is to create a new education application that uses Tablet technology while expanding the possibilities for how a user interacts with the computer. This award was won by:

First Place: United States — Auratech

Second Place: Brazil — IC-UNICAMP

Live Services Award

This award challenges students to create a technology solution built on Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform to solve the world’s toughest problems. This award was won by:

First Place: France — Help’Aged

Second Place: Serbia — BrainWave

Windows Mobile Award

This award challenges students to use Windows Mobile technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. This award was won by:

First Place: Croatia — Team Explorer

Second Place: Indonesia — Big Bang

Third Place: Brazil — Virtual Dreams

H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak Special Award

Sponsored by the first lady of Egypt, this award was given to the project that best intersects the following: the Imagine Cup 2009 theme, “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today”; the Millennium Development Goals; and the objectives of the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement and the Cyber Peace Initiative. This award was won by:

First Place: Poland — kAMUflage

Second Place: Egypt — Big Buddy

Third Place: France — WikiChildProtect

Cool fact about Croatia

I can’t resist being a Croatia’s fan and really cool fact – Croatia is the smallest country of all the countries that have won 1st place in any of the available categories. How cool is that?

Imagine Cup 2010 – Poland

Next year’s Imagine Cup 2010 Worldwide Finals will take place in Poland, a country with a track record of producing highly skilled IT students as well as successful Imagine Cup entrants. Registrations for Imagine Cup 2010 open tomorrow, July 8, 2009.

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