Microsoft has announced the winners of the 2016 Imagine Cup Championship in a live webcast of the event held at Garfield High School, Seattle.
Team ENTy, who made an app for monitoring balance and posture, was announced the world champion of the 14th Imagine Cup.
“The final leg of the nearly year-long Imagine Cup journey began on Wednesday, when 35 teams from all over the globe competed in front of our judges for the top three spots in the Games, Innovation and World Citizenship categories. Team PH21 of Thailand in Games, Team ENTy of Romania in Innovation and Team AMANDA of Greece in World Citizenship each claimed their $50,000 category prize and then moved on to the Championship round to compete for the grand prize – the Imagine Cup crown and a private mentoring session with Satya.”
You can view the video of the final event of this Championship in this Channel9 video below.
Source: channel9.msdn.com
The company organized a live hackathon also, during the final leg of the event. About this, the company states,
“They (students) participated in a live hackathon and got to see first-hand just how powerful a few lines of code can be. The Garfield High gymnasium was transformed into a Robo World Cup Hackathon space where more than a 100 local high school students from the Boys & Girls Club and Garfield High joined Imagine Cup competitors. The hackathon, run by Microsoft Student Partners, helped students build and customize a robot kit using Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure, and tested their innovation in a World Cup style soccer style elimination tournament. The winners received an Xbox One, HP Spectre laptop and a World Cup trophy.”
The 2016 event was the 14th Imagine Cup Championship that Microsoft organizes each year to bring more innovation to the young developers and providing them opportunity to “acquire new and critical technical, business and team-building skills.”
Here is the consolidated list of winners from all categories.
Source: blogs.microsoft.com