And so remain the Last 20.
4 Students across each of the 5 universities are partying the night as I type this knowing that they are Firenze|BXT 2010 university winners, prepping for their final showdown at Seattle (and Redmond) in 9 days.
These students identified by their functions as (B- Business, X – Design, T – Technology) are:
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
University of Michigan
New York University
University of Washington
Christopher John Haine (X)
Michael Miller (B)
Garima Garg (T)
Mayukh Mukherjee
(B)
Graham Siebe (B)
Abhishek Kumar Jha (T)
Jane Jiyoon Park (T)
Pradeep Muthukrishnan (T)
Elizabeth Fuller
(X)
Pallavi Damera (T)
Jessica Haswell (X)
James Liu (X)
Isaac Anthony Krauss (X)
Prayag Pathak (T)
Tony Jiandong Hu (X)
Derek Peterson (B)
Kawaljit Chugh (B)
Nir Soffer (B)
Shi Cheng (T)
Shweta Grampurohit (X)
March 20th and 21st will be the Firenze|BXT Finals – after which the Top team will receive $20,000! If you are interested in viewing the finals, let me know and I will get you an invitation!
The program has been running on plan, and there are a lot of people working behind the scenes to pull this off – and thank you all for that J
The timeline for this year is:
· January 18th: Firenze Round 1 Starts in Universities (Done)
· February 1st – 8th: Innovation Workshops run on campuses (To help students understand a bit more about BXT) (Done)
· March 1st: University Prelim Rounds end. Student artefacts sent to Microsoft (Done)
· March 8th - 9th: University Finals through LiveMeeting (Top 4 teams make it to finals – 2 in the case of UW) (Done)
· March 20th & 21st : Firenze Innovation Grande Finals in Microsoft HQ at Seattle, WA (The top team from each University is invited)
Congratulations to all the University Winners! The easy part is over :)