First published on MSDN on May 31, 2013
This year, we offered students around the world the opportunity to submit their projects directly to Imagine Cup headquarters here in Redmond for consideration in our global online finals. This was in parallel with our dozens of local finals events worldwide. We wanted to ensure students in countries without local finals could compete and also give great local finals teams a second chance at becoming a worldwide finalist team and competing at our finals event in St. Petersburg this July.
Here is the complete list of global online finals winners. Thousands of students competed in these contests and we ended up with some really great projects! For each of these, just click the team name to read all about the project in the team's own words.
Games Competition
In this competition we had two teams from France and one team from Austria who made the cut as worldwide finalists:
Seed
by
Team Banzai Lightning
,
Kameon
by
Team Seven Worlds
, and
Schein
by
Team Zeppelin Studio
.
Innovation Competition
Brazil and Slovenia took the top slots in this one:
Callvenient
by
Team Flying Ship
and
DORA
by
Team DORA
.
World Citizenship Competition
China and the United States brought some great projects to this category:
Water Facts
by
Team Combine
and
The Bear Claw System
by
Team Bears Unlimited
.
Windows Azure Challenge
China, India, and Ukraine demonstrated their awesome Azure skills with these projects:
Get & Put
by
Team LetssGo
,
Zoink It!
by
Team Y-Nots
, and
onQuests
by
Team nlife
.
Windows Phone Challenge
Two teams from Poland and one from Singapore did some great things with Windows Phone:
Cope
by
Team Front
,
Modern Drug Test
by
Team WeRule
, and
Speak Reminder
by
Team vSoft Studio
.
Windows 8 Challenge
Germany, Italy, and Thailand stepped up to make full use of Microsoft's latest OS: Wordsapp by
Team Wordsapp
, Ulixes by
Team Exception
, and Vocable World by
Team Clever Mind
.
I'd like to congratulate all of our global online finals winners. They're joining all of our local finals winners in St. Petersburg this July for our Worldwide Finals.
And my profound thanks to all the other teams who entered. You may not have made it to Russia this year, but very few students have accomplished what you have. Your projects were inspiring, fun, moving, and daring. Never, ever give up.
All of you, regardless of whether you won or not, are now eligible to join a very exclusive group: the Imagine Cup Alumni.
Please sign up now
and stay in touch -- because while Russia is right around the corner, it won't be long before we're launching a whole new round of great worldwide contests. We have some great plans for this fall and much more to come.
John Scott Tynes
Imagine Cup Competition Manager
Microsoft Academic Programs
