Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier 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. Now in its seventh year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition with more than 300,000 students from over 100 countries and regions entering this year’s competition. Students will bring their ideas to life in a multifaceted competition that comprises nine categories and six special awards each catering to a different technological or artistic affinity.

The Imagine Cup National Finals for the software-design category will be held on 7th May 2009 at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore

If you’d like to attend the National Finals to watch the project demos and cheer the teams , please write to icindia@microsoft.com 

Meet the finalists

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...