Imagine Cup to challenge young minds

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:59

IT Industry - Strategy

Microsoft has announced its support for this year’s Imagine Cup, the world-wide competition aimed at students and their big ideas for the future of IT.

Microsoft Australia has dropped iTWire some information on its support of the Imagine Cup, a competition that Microsoft is urging the young minds of Australia to get behind.

The Microsoft initiative, open to students 16 years and older, is the world’s premier student technology competition, encouraging young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to bring to life technology innovations that can make a difference in the today’s world.



This year’s theme is ‘Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.’

“The Imagine Cup inspires students to use their creativity to help change the world for the better by discovering new ways to use technology to address some of the world’s toughest challenges’” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer1. “Some of the greatest innovations and companies of tomorrow will be created by today’s students.”

Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws incredible talent, and the competition is intense. Now in its eighth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a global event.

In 2008 an Australia team won the global Imagine Cup finals and in 2009, more than 300,000 students from 142 countries entered the Imagine Cup competition. The contest spans one year, beginning with local, regional, and online contests with the finalists going on to attend the Worldwide Finals, to be held in Warsaw, Poland in July this year.

More information on the Imagine Cup and how to particpate on PAGE 2