Imagine Cup 2009

Yesterday my campus (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) was visited by a representative from Microsoft Indonesia, and 2 MSPs (Microsoft Student Partner) from UGM. What's the occasion of their coming to my campus? Other than to introduce MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance), it's to publicize a competition which had been conducted by Microsoft for several years. Imagine Cup 2009 is the name of that competition. The world's premier student technology competition, is how Microsoft would describe this event.

What is Imagine Cup?The Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. The competition encourages the world's most talented software designers, programmers, game developers, photographers and filmmakers to tackle the toughest problems facing the world today. Imagine Cup has several categories that can be joined. The categories are :

1. Software Design
2. 
   
   Embedded Development
3. 
   
   Game Development
4. 
   
   Robotics and Algorithm
5. 
   
   IT Challenge
6. 
   
   MashUp
7. 
   
   Photography
8. 
   
   Short Film
9. 
   
   Design

( For more information, please click on the category you choose ).

For Software Design and Embedded Development category, there is a regional competition before stepping up to the finals. So participants for these categories will have to compete with participants in their region first, before finally electing one team for each category in the finals. The finals this year will be held in Egypt and every participants will be competing for a prize of $10,000 and an Internship opportunity at Microsoft's Research Technology for Emerging Markets Group in Bangalore, India as first place in each category.
Are you ready to step up to the challenge? Register your team now!!