Now in its seventh year, the Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. The competition encourages the world's most talented software designers, programmers, game developers, photographers and filmmakers to tackle the toughest problems facing the world today.

If you want to contribute your talents to tackling some of the toughest problems facing us today-and maybe even turn your ideas into a business one day. Learn new technology skills and test yourself against the brightest students on the planet. To make friends around the world. In case you would like a chance to win cash prizes, internships at Microsoft and even a free trip to Cairo, Egypt next summer. Here is your chance, the Imagine Cup has been challenging the world's brightest technology students to step up and make a difference, since 2002.
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The winners of Imagine Cup 2008 have been announced. The finalists were chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions. Celebrating first place, Australia's Team SOAK won the worldwide Software Design invitational, Singapore's Team Trail Blazers won the Embedded Development invitational, and Brazil's Mother Gaia Studio won the Game Development challenge. Imagine Cup, the world's premier competition for technology students, gives students the chance to unlock their creative genius and build solutions that tackle real-world issues facing society today.

"Imagine Cup provides a forum for students around the world to explore new ways to use the power of software to help address some of the world's toughest challenges," said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "The high caliber of the students and their projects is evidence of the high level of innovation seen in the student community today, with a clear potential for real-world impact."

The software design, embedded development and game development finalist teams created applications, devices and games using the Microsoft platform and Microsoft tools based on the Imagine Cup competition theme "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment." Know more...