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Imagine Cup, Competitors at the ready....
20 November 08 01:56 PM
The Imagine Cup 2009 is in full swing. And there is no better year to compete - there has been so much going on in the world of Microsoft technology recently: Silverlight 2.0 released PDC and all the goodness around Mesh, Azure, Windows 7, etc XNA Studio Read More...
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Imagine Cup UK - The winners story
27 August 08 10:28 AM
It seems like a lifetime ago that we held the Imagine Cup UK finals in London and over 150 students, partners and press came together to see what the competition was all about and how students were helping to fight climate change. Ben and Dominic won Read More...
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Imagine Cup competitors - where are they now? Channel 8 videos online
25 March 08 05:17 PM
My first two videos on Channel 8 are now online. Yes, I do sound that weird (that's Northern Irish people for you) and talk a lot. But these guys all have done incredibly well out of the Imagine Cup and our student programs and their stories are worth Read More...
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Imagine Cup Day on 5th June 2008 - Celebrating the best in UK student talent
20 March 08 10:49 AM
It's been a busy couple of months for the Imagine Cup and we have a good 200-odd students fighting it out for great prizes and the opportunity to travel to Paris (in style) to compete at the worldwide finals. And to celebrate the best year for the Imagine Read More...
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Bill Gates at Stanford on Channel 8
21 February 08 03:14 PM
The Bill Gates Stanford Speech Covers DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Innovation, power of software and students Read More...
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innerworkings - Train your developers to code (properly)
07 December 07 11:12 AM
I spent some time talking to Bob and the guys at innerworkings about their product and service - it is a developer training interface which integrates directly with Visual Studio and gives developers (ones that write code for a living rather than students) Read More...
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Where are they now? Imagine Cup 2004 Winner - Andy Grieves
06 December 07 02:01 PM
This is the first in a series of videos and email interviews with former competitors in the Imagine Cup here in the UK. A very common question we receive is "What happens to former winners and competitors?" and whether the Imagine Cup has had Read More...
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Xbox 360 + Students + Paul Smith = Freeplay lounge and GamesCity event
28 October 07 04:49 PM
Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend but it looked like a cracking event (pulled together mainly by Claire on our team !). A great event hosted by Nottingham council and Nottingham Trent University. We hosted a bunch of academics and students at two Read More...
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Microsoft Student Partner on a journey
12 September 07 09:57 PM
A slide show of one student's interactions and his travels as a result of competitions like the Imagine Cup and the Student Partner program . It's definitely an inspiration to the 62 UK MSPs who are coming to London on the 17th/18th September for what Read More...
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