 Software Design 
Here's your chance to fuse your creativity with your technology know-how to solve some of the toughest problems on the planet. Using Microsoft® tools and technology, apply your genius toward innovating usable software applications on the Microsoft .NET® Framework and Windows® platform. You - and students like you from all over the globe - will conceive, test, and build your ideas into real applications that can change the world.
The winning team will represent Hong Kong and fly to Delhi, India for the worldwide final to compete for the grand prizes and join the award ceremony.
| General Guidelines | - Teams of up to 4 individuals
- Theme: Imagine a world where "technology helps us to live healthier lives"
- Presentations and documentation at the WW finals must be in English.
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| Required Elements | Optional Elements | - Self created Web service
- Designed on .NET Framework 2.0
- Use of Visual Studio® family (Express, Standard, or Team System) for development
| - Mobile device
- .NET Compact Framework
- ASP .NET
- SQL Server™
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| Eligibility | | All full-time student at an accredited secondary school or tertiary educational institutes with the age of 16 years or older at the time of entry. |
| Deliverables | - Application executables and readme files
- Project specification, no more than 5 pages
- One page executive summary
- Oral presentation – length TBD based on number of qualifying teams
- Visual representation of system architecture
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| Scoring System | | A simple numerical scoring system will be used. Each Judging element will be given a score of 1-10 and weighted according to guidance seen in the percentages associated with each. |
| Requirements to Reach Worldwide Finals | | Participants must have built and presented a running software application that won a national or regional level competition in a country or region that is sponsoring a winning team for the worldwide Imagine Cup finals. |
| Important Date | - Registration Closing date: 10 March 2006
- Project Submission period: 20 February 2006 – 17 March 2006
- Semi- finals announcement: 3 April 2006
- Semi-finalists Presentation: mid-April 2006
- Hong Kong Finalists Announcement: 28 April 2006
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| Delivery of Entry Content / Materials | | Mail or send the entry content/material to the following address by March 17, 2006. | Microsoft Hong Kong Limited,
13/F., Cyberport 2,
100 Cyberport Road,
Attn: Imagine Cup 2006 |
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