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Jan 17, 2022	11 крупнейших международных соревнований по программированию на 2022 год	Недавно я собирала подборку соревнований для гемдизайнеров, т.к. начала изучать геймдизйан. Геймдизанер ≠ геймдевелопер, потому во многих джемах нет порога входа, можно создавать игру, не шаря за разработку и использовать ноу-код движок. А ...
Dec 20, 2021	Higher education commission (HEC) and Microsoft sign an Education Transformation Agreement (ETA) geared towards education advancement in Pakistan	Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Microsoft in Pakistan have renewed the Education Transformation Agreement (ETA). Both organizations partnered once again to help enable positive changes to learning outcomes for the students in the coun...
Apr 4, 2021	Team ProTag from New Zealand and Team Threeotech from Thailand from Asia advance to Microsoft’s Imagine Cup World Championships in May	SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 5 April 2021 – Microsoft today announced the top 4 World Finalists of the 2021 Imagine Cup competition, including 2 teams from Asia, Team ProTag (New Zealand) winning the Earth category and Team Threeotech (Thai...
Jul 29, 2016	Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup	The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking...
Jul 11, 2016	Guess which Nigerian Hollywood star will judge the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016 finals?	Share this article: If you’ve been longing for the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine cup in Seattle later in the year, it can’t be any more exciting than what you’re about to hear. Having already unveiled a lineup of 35 student develope...
Jun 24, 2016	Nigeria’s Team Humane makes it to Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finals	Share this article: The journey to the Imagine Cup World Finals started way back in August, when students began forming their teams at schools all across the globe. Since then, they have poured their hearts and souls into their solutions an...
Jun 10, 2016	At 1776, a global journey in digital health and diagnostics	The company’s cloud-based platform and app links urgent care patients with validated and trained hospitals and first responders. The goal is to grant patients physical access to a doctor in less than 10 minutes following a push of the emerg...
Apr 26, 2016	Modern Robin Hood won the Imagine Cup	An educational mobile game that controls single-celled organism, a cooperative game about the modern day Robin Hoods, and a game that teaches to create games – ideas of students from Łódź are in the top four games of this year’s Imagine Cup...
Mar 7, 2016	Belo Horizonte irá sediar uma das mais importantes competições de tecnologia	O estado de Minas Gerais assinou um acordo de cooperação entre a Secretária do Estado de Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior e a Microsoft, que prevê a realização da Imagine Cup, pela primeira vez, no estado. O evento, realizado anualment...
Mar 1, 2016	Join the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016 train	Share this article: The 2016 edition of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Nigeria is upon us and the categories for this year’s competition are World Citizenship, Innovation and Games. Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology...
Dec 18, 2015	Microsoft 'Hello Cloud Challenge' gives students chance to win $1,000 over Christmas vacation	High school can stink; it is no secret. Besides the arguably boring classes, isolating cliques, and mentally deranged bullies, getting up early in the morning as a teen is such a drag. Of course, getting an education is wonderful; it's just...
Jul 21, 2015	These OAU Engineering students built ‘Humane’, to make smartphones accessible to the blind	Share this article: Humane is virtual sensory software platform that allows visually impaired users to perform tasks on their smartphones which they can’t perform normally. Humane was developed by Victor Shoaga, Ayodele Obasegun, Oyatope Bl...
Apr 24, 2015	Microsoft Announces India Winners of the 13th Edition of Imagine Cup 2015	New Delhi, Delhi, India -13,900 students participated from 25 states, of which, 29 student teams battled it out at the India Finals of Microsoft’s premier technology competition. -Teams from Lonavala, (Maharashtra), Rau (Madhya Pradesh), an...
Jun 4, 2014	Microsoft Announces This Year’s Imagine Cup Finalists, With Satya Nadella As VIP Judge	For the last 11 years, Microsoft has been running its worldwide Imagine Cup student software competition, and every year, it invites the best teams to the world finals. Last year’s event was in St. Petersburg, Russia, for example. This time...
Dec 4, 2013	Microsoft Revamps Imagine Cup, Adds Worldwide Semifinals And New Challenges	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is one of the world’s largest software development competitions aimed at students. Since its launch 11 years ago, more than 1.7 million students have participated in it in some form and this year, there are $1 millio...
Jul 14, 2013	Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer On Touch, The Desktop And The Future Of Imagine Cup	The desktop’s future isn’t bright, but it isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer told me last week during a brief interview in St. Petersburg, Russia on the sidelines of Microsoft’s Imagine Cu...
Jul 11, 2013	Student Teams From The UK, Portugal And Austria Win Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2013 And $50K Each	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2013 student technology competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, just ended with a high-energy awards gala hosted by Dr. Who’s Matt Smith. This year, Microsoft awarded three main prizes of $50,000 each to the winners i...
Jul 10, 2013	Beezinga Brings Data Analytics To The Apiary	Beekeeping isn’t exactly something you read about a lot in the tech press, but it’s a big business with about $268.9 million in revenue in the U.S. alone, and technology is slowly finding its way into apiaries around the world. Beezinga, th...
Jul 9, 2013	Microsoft’s 11th Imagine Cup Student Software Competition Kicks Off In Russia With More Than $1M In Prizes On The Line	Every year for the last 11 years, Microsoft has organized Imagine Cup, one of the world’s largest technology competitions for students. This year, more than 25,000 students participated in the preliminary rounds in their respective countrie...
Jul 9, 2013	Hateya Uses Augmented Reality Glasses To Help Firefighters Escape Burning Buildings	Firefighters are trained to go into burning buildings, but even with all of this training, they can get disoriented in the pandemonium around them. Hateya, Belgium’s finalist for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2013, says this is a leading cause of...
Jul 4, 2013	Help Me Help Uses Crowdsourcing To Make Disaster Response More Efficient	Help Me Help wants to make it easier for emergency responders to get a full picture of the situation after a disaster happens. The service combines crowdsourcing, a smartphone app and web service that allows trained professionals and civili...
Feb 15, 2013	Microsoft Moves To Create Jobs For 300 Million Youths	Software giant Microsoft Corp., has announced the launch of YouthSpark – a global initiative that aims to create opportunities for 300 million youth in more than 100 countries during the next three years which will effect a reduction in the...
Dec 5, 2012	Want Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Grant? Combine Devices, Sensors And The Cloud	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup rewards student innovators with thousands of dollars worth of prizes, the chance to network with other entrepreneurs and valuable experience. But to develop those skills into a viable business can require additional ...
Dec 4, 2012	Microsoft Awards Imagine Cup Grants To 5 Innovative Student Developer Teams	Every year, Microsoft hosts the Imagine Cup, one of the world’s most influential student software development competitions. The company pits developer teams from around the world against each other in a Disrupt Battlefield-like pitch compet...
Nov 9, 2012	Microsoft’s Wowzapp Hackathon Attracts 17,000 Student Developers Who Want To Build Windows Apps	Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would hold a free global hackathon in over 100 cities around the globe. Today is the first day of this “Wowzapp 2012” event, and Microsoft just announced that it has managed to attract over 17,00...
Sep 24, 2012	Google Announces Its Third Code-In Contest For High School Students, Starts November 26	Google today announced that its third Code-in contest for high school students will start on November 26. The contest, which aims to introduce 13-17 year old pre-university students to open source software development, will run from Novembe...
Aug 30, 2012	Microsoft Opens Registration For Imagine Cup 2013, Doubles Prize Money to $300K	Microsoft has organized its Imagine Cup student technology competition for the last 10 years and today, the company opened registration for the 2013 edition of this event. Students ages 16 and older can now register for their national event...
Jul 18, 2012	Microsoft’s Windows Azure Now Stores Over 4 Trillion Objects, Processes 270K Requests Per Second	Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, got off to a slow start when it launched in early 2010. It’s clearly gaining momentum now, though. According to Microsoft’s own data, Azure’s storage service, which competes directly with...
Jul 11, 2012	From Contest to Company: 6 Tips for Taking a Startup to the Next Level	From hackathons to programming contests to business plan competitions, competitive events are a great way to test the potential appeal and viability of a startup idea. But what happens after the contest? Win or lose, how can a new company m...
Jul 10, 2012	Ukrainian Students Win Microsoft’s Imagine Cup With Their Sign Language-To-Speech Translation Gloves	During an awards ceremony in Sydney today, Ukraine’s team quadSquad just won this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup student technology competition (and $25,000) thanks to its gloves that can translate sign language into speech. The team beat out...
Jul 10, 2012	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Student Software Contest Holds Lessons for Startups	The 10th annual student software contest, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, is wrapping up in Sydney, Australia, and there are some important lessons that all entrepreneurs, young and old, can glean from the process. The contest challenges hundreds ...
Jul 9, 2012	Ukrainian Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech	There is no dearth of impressive student projects here at the finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney, but one of the six finalists that caught my attention was a project called EnableTalk by the Ukrainian team QuadSquad. There are curr...
Jul 7, 2012	Greenway Wants To Put An End To Traffic Jams	Traffic jams are annoying, but they are also responsible for extra CO2 emissions and plenty of wasted productivity. Greenway, Germany’s entry into Microsoft’s 10th Imagine Cup student technology competition in Sydney this week, wants to do ...
Jul 6, 2012	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Student Competition Turns 10, Gets Underway In Sydney	Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is probably one of the world’s best-known student technology competitions and Microsoft itself likes to call it “the world’s premier student technology competition.” Every year, thousands of local teams compete to re...
Jul 13, 2011	Meet This Year’s Imagine Cup Winners: Students Building World-Changing Tech	Over 400 college students from around the world gathered this week in New York City for the 2011 Finals of the Imagine Cup. Microsoft’s student technology competition. On stage this evening, the awards were handed out to the winning teams i...
Jul 12, 2011	The Imagine Cup: Student-Built Technology Tackles the World’s Most Pressing Problems	This is the ninth year for the Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s student technology competition. Teams from all over the world, representing 70 countries, have gathered this week in New York City for the Imagine Cup finals. It’s down to the final ro...
Jul 9, 2010	No beta yet, no launch: Windows Phone 7 still months away	reader comments 48 with 36 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Microsoft has consistently maintained that Windows Phone 7 will launch in time for the "holiday season" later thi...
	Belo Horizonte irá sediar uma das mais importantes competições de tecnologia	O estado de Minas Gerais assinou um acordo de cooperação entre a Secretária do Estado de Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior e a Microsoft, que prevê a realização da Imagine Cup, pela primeira vez, no estado. O evento, realizado anualment...
	At 1776, a global journey in digital health and diagnostics	Several med tech start-ups pitched their business plan in pursuit of up to $1 million in investments at the Challenge Cup Global Finals week in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by technology incubator and seed fund 1776, the ongoing competition f...
	Brasileiros são os que mais levam prêmios na Imagine Cup	Imagine um mundo em que a tecnologia ajude a resolver os problemas mais difíceis. Este foi o tema da competição mundial de estudantes de tecnologia Imagine Cup 2009. Imagine também que, entre 300 mil inscritos de 142 países, 5 equipes brasi...
	Brasileiros destacam-se em outra copa: a da imaginação tecnológica	A competição tecnológica estudantil Imagine Cup, da Microsoft, já chegou às finais desta edição – que acontecem na Polônia. Parecido com o que aconteceu no ano passado, equipes brasileiras foram destacadas em 4 categorias e 3 prêmios especi...
	Imagine Cup: US$ 300 mil para estudantes que querem resolver os problemas do mundo	(Foto: Facebook oficial da Imagine Cup) A Microsoft abriu inscrições para que estudantes participem da Imagine Cup e usem sua imaginação para “criar soluções tecnológicas” e resolver problemas do mundo. A companhia promete US$ 300 mil em pr...
	Microsoft anuncia finalistas da Imagine Cup, competição de softwares	Há 11 anos a Microsoft promove a Imagine Cup, competição mundial anual de softwares desenvolvidos por estudantes. Esse ano a final acontecerá em Seattle em 29 de julho e contará com 35 equipes disputando a final. A competição é tão importan...
	Наши студенты взяли «бронзу» на Imagine Cup	Наши студенты взяли «бронзу» на Imagine Cup 13 Июля, 2009, 17:30 Архив 1387 Свыше 300 000 студентов со всего мира первоначально замахнулись на призы Imagine Cup 2009 – международного студенческого конкурса инновационных проектов в сфере инф...
	Imagine Cup: US$ 300 mil para estudantes que querem resolver os problemas do mundo	(Foto: Facebook oficial da Imagine Cup) A Microsoft abriu inscrições para que estudantes participem da Imagine Cup e usem sua imaginação para “criar soluções tecnológicas” e resolver problemas do mundo. A companhia promete US$ 300 mil em pr...

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Parsers VC has collected 46 articles mentioning Microsoft Imagine Cup, among them “11 крупнейших международных соревнований по программированию на 2022 год” (Jan 17, 2022) and “Higher education commission (HEC) and Microsoft sign an Education Transformation Agreement (ETA) geared towards education advancement in Pakistan” (Dec 20, 2021).

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Yes, Microsoft Imagine Cup is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 7, 2022.