http://blogs.msdn.com/mis_laboratory/archive/tags/Imagine+Cup/default.aspxTags: Imagine Cupen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/mis_laboratory/archive/2009/07/05/us-teams-advance-in-imagine-cup-world-wide-finals.aspxSun, 05 Jul 2009 15:47:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9818063randguth0http://blogs.msdn.com/mis_laboratory/comments/9818063.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/mis_laboratory/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9818063http://blogs.msdn.com/mis_laboratory/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9818063<P><FONT size=1>By Randy Guthrie – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist (USA) <BR></FONT><A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory"><FONT size=1>http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory</FONT></A></P> <P><A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image001_2.jpg" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image001_2.jpg"><IMG style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title=clip_image001 border=0 alt=clip_image001 src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image001_thumb.jpg" width=244 height=184 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image001_thumb.jpg"></A> <A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image002_2.jpg" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image002_2.jpg"><IMG style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title=clip_image002 border=0 alt=clip_image002 src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image002_thumb.jpg" width=244 height=184 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/mis_laboratory/WindowsLiveWriter/USTeamsAdvanceinImagineCupWorldWideFinal_DE12/clip_image002_thumb.jpg"></A></P> <P>After a brutal day of presentations and eliminations, the Team PARV from Oklahoma State University and our one-man game-dev team juggernaut “E” McNeill from Dartmouth survived two elimination rounds to advance to the final rounds of their respective competitions.&nbsp; Team PARV designed and built a medical diagnostic kiosk for use in remote villages, and “E” has designed a game that is amazingly fun and teaches clean energy awareness. Our SDI team “Multi-touch Web” did an amazing job in the first round, but in the field of over 65 world-class competitors there were some truly amazing projects that will make anyone go “WOW!”.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have a total of ten teams competing this year, some of whom are still competing. Here are some details of some of these amazing competitions that are still in progress:</P> <P>Photo: Rachel Asplund and Tara Fullmer from Brigham Young University have a taxi, body guard, and local site expert and they are driving around Cairo putting together a photo-essay that contrasts the collision of the ancient with technology</P> <P>Design:&nbsp; Feixing Tuang and Yujia Zhao from Indiana University are designing resources to help an autistic child maintain a stable environment while on an International vacation with his parents</P> <P>IT: Michael Burr from the University of Colorado -Boulder has been working 24 hours straight in a lab building a cloud-based IT infrastructure</P> <P>Mashup: Kathy and Marc designed a popfly cube that measures the sentiment (degree of positive/negative) of online content relating to individual people, topics or issues</P> <P>Tablet Accessibility: Casey Williams and Ryan Gentner from SUNY-Buffalo built a tablet application that provides PowerPoint-like presentation capabilities simple enough for young children or mentally-disabled persons to use</P> <P>Suzanne Mubarak: the Special Child SDI team from UArk was selected to participate with their SDI project in this contest is sponsored by the first lady of Egypt</P> <P>We are so proud of all our students and it’s been so fun to get to know them better.</P> <P>Cheers!</P> <P>Randy </P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9818063" width="1" height="1">Imagine Cup