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Imagine Cup 2009 Croatian Software Design Finals was held at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Split on May 06th 2009. I am very pleased to let you know that it was a great event. We had full classroom, more than 100 students and professors attended, where we held Finals.

 

This year’s competitors have been hard to compare and decide on the best one. Each of the teams had made an excellent application and show for the judges and the attendees. The whole event was remarkable, and I am hoping I can put it to words.

The atmosphere was culminating to the extent of a great show. Each of the teams had prepare themselves to make the best application for the judges to decide they were the best.

 

There was three teams that were competing in the Finals, coming from three faculties, three different cities in Croatia.

Winners

The first prize went to team “Explorer” from Faculty of Organization and Informatics. They presented their application that allows organizations to select some endangered areas and publish this information to all field experts and teams to spend less time organizing and reporting, to allow them better work and greater service quality for those in need. The application rests on Microsoft technologies; .NET Framework 3.5, .NET compact framework 3.5, LINQ, WCF, Deep Earth, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008, Windows Live SDK, Windows based mobile device, etc.

2nd place was reworded to team “Lost in Time” from the Faculty hosting the Finals. They presented their system for preserving cultural heritage. It provides the means to monitor countless cultural monuments and artifacts helping experts in planning the preservation, revitalization and presentation campaigns for material, non-material and language aspects of every culture in the world.

3rd place went to team “Smart Wall” from Faculty Electrical Engineering and Computing. They made a system that helps children from preschool and primary school to adopt essential knowledge from all aspect of education like mathematics, language and art.

Each of the teams were outstanding with their effort to make an application that will help to change and resolve one of the global problems.

I had to thank the judges, who spent the whole day judging and deciding which of the teams was the best. I know it was a hard job to do, especially deciding between this three teams. In no particular order (on the photo from right to left) I wish to thank Anita Petković (T-HT), Maja Ćukušić (EFST), Darko Jovišić (Microsoft Croatia) and Tomislav Tipurić (Microsoft Croatia).

After the award ceremony there was a cocktail where teams networked and had some time to chat with each other, professors and Microsoft employees.

Also a big thank you is going to Croatian Telecom (T-HT) who was the sponsor of rewords to our finalists and making it possible to organize Innovation Accelerator, which will be held from 25th of May to 06th of June 2009 in our Microsoft Innovation Center in Varaždin for all three teams.