We invite students to Imagine Day: April 18 in Moscow

    Friends! You have probably heard about our international student competition Imagine Cup , in which student teams come up with and implement their software projects and games. So, the national Russian final of the competition will be held on April 18, 2015 (Saturday) as part of a large student event - Imagine Day . Register , come yourself, bring your friends, or join the online broadcast on the ImagineCup.ru website .



    The event will be held on the territory of Technopolis Moscow (metro Tekstilshchiki) and will begin at 10:00. During the day, there will be many interesting activities on the site. The large hall will host a series of interesting performances, which will also be broadcast online:
    • Andrey Egorov , Head of Skolkovo Open University and representative of Singularity University in Russia, will talk about what the future holds in terms of technology
    • Microsoft Alexey Fedorov will open the veil of secrecy over what awaits us after Windows 7 and Windows 8
    • Dmitry Kalayev , director of acceleration and educational programs of IIDF will introduce you to the basics of technological entrepreneurship
    • GameInsight Oleg Pridyuk talks about how games are actually made
    • Svetlana Razumova from Microsoft HR will share secrets on how to get a job in an international company
    • Evgeny Agafonov from ABBYY, Microsoft MVP, will tell you how to measure the quality of education using Microsoft Azure
    • Eugene Romin and the Brainy Studio team, winners of the Imagine Cup 2014, will talk about the secrets of success and how to create your own small game studio


    In parallel, in a separate room will be the performance of teams:
    • games (11: 00-13: 00) - teams from St. Petersburg State University, SUSU, Lipetsk State Technical University, NIU MPEI SF, PNIPU, MBOU Secondary School No. 37, YaSTU
    • social projects (11: 00-13: 00) - there will be teams of SkolTech, MIPT, NNSU, SUSU, KuzGTU, Baltic Federal University, UlSTU
    • innovations (14: 30-16: 30) - teams of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, SkolTech, St. Petersburg NRU ITMO, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Nizhny Novgorod State University, PNIU, Russian State Pedagogical University, International Banking Institute
    • On the Imagine Day, the master's code competition will also be summarized at the school competition , students will fight for the main prize right on the site

    There will be no online broadcast of speeches, but online it will be possible to watch short interviews with the teams. We invite all visitors to the event to watch not only performances in the large hall, but also to visit the teams ’performances to cheer for them and see how interesting projects students make in Russia.

    During the event, you can watch an exhibition of student projects, chat with teams and touch prototypes. The exhibition will be held from 13:30 to 14:30.

    According to the results of the performances, the winners of the Russian finals in each of the three categories will be selected. One of these teams will represent Russia at the international final in Seattle in the summer of 2015.

    We are waiting for all students of Moscow and the surrounding area at the event personally, and those who can not come - join the online broadcast! See you soon!

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