The Russian final of the Imagine Cup 2015 in Moscow. Impressions. How it was?

    On April 18, 2015, the Russian final of the competition for student-developers of the Imagine Cup took place in Moscow. This year it turned out to be the largest ever since it was held in Russia - 21 teams from different cities of our vast country to fight for the title of best and get the opportunity to go to the international final of the competition in Seattle, Microsoft headquarters. Let's talk a little about stories of this wonderful contest.





    Imagine Cup ( vk , fb ) is the world's largest annual technology competition held with the support of Microsoft since 2003.

    As it is written on the site, graduate students and students from around the world can participate in the competition, in a team or alone. Participants need to come up with a bright idea and realize its prototype using modern information technologies.



    The competition was held in a wonderful place - Technopolis Moscow. PS True, we did not immediately find the entrance to it.





    The competition was opened by Dmitry Soshnikov ( vk , fb ).

    At 10:20 there was a performance of teams - a minute performance. There are three nominations at the competition: social projects, games, innovations. Plus the nomination “Master of the Code”: for projects of schoolchildren.

    After that, all the teams went to their stands to demonstrate their projects to visitors.
    The competition was also attended by many famous people, such as the creator of Tetris - Alexey Pazhitnov, designer Yandex.Browser - Konstantin Gorsky. Between the exhibitions in the large hall there were various interesting reports that you could watch online, and you will soon see in the recording.



    Also, we, the Microsoft Student Partner, held a small photo contest for the best photo at our booth.
    Here is our winner:



    After all this, finally it's time to announce the winners of the competition. And the arrangement of the winners was as follows:

    in the nomination " Social Projects " the first place was taken by the team - Galvani bionix, the second place - Neocortex, and the final third, but no less significant - Iris Check.

    in the nomination " Innovation“the first place was taken by the team - Lexy, the second and third places were taken by the teams - Lazybit and C4L, respectively.

    and in the last, but no less important nomination of the“ Game ”, the first place was taken by the team - IzHard, the second and third places were taken by the teams - WhisperArts and FantasticFour.

    all members of the team, I want to wish the new incredible achievements and success and the team won first place in the categories -. to adequately address before the American jury, and to show to the international final which class experts live in our homeland.

    PS Thank you all for MSP assistance in this s Remarkably competition! Until we meet again.

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