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Microsoft Switzerland is giving away up to 200 free LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT to enable full-time students of Swiss educational institutions under public law to get hands-on experience on embedded development with Microsoft® Robotics Development Studio and robotics hardware (maximum of one robot per person). Additional 100 robots are awarded to faculty members of Swiss educational institutions, making a total distribution of 300 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT! This is how you can win your own robot:

Microsoft Robotics Expo Winners Announced
Microsoft Robotics Expo was organized in Holiday Inn Bern on Friday 8th May 2009 parallel to Swiss Imagine`09 Cup Finals. Idea of the Expo was to give students a chance to show what kind of innovative ideas they have been able to realize with their selected hardware and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. Read results of the Robotics Expo competition.

Imagine Cup is an annual worldwide student competition with categories ranging from digital arts to software design. As in the Olympics, Imagine Cup finalists compete at the world finals, which are held in Cairo, Egypt in July 2009. For Imagine Cup 2009, programmers, artists and technologists of 16 years of age or older are invited to submit innovative projects with the topic: "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.”

Imagine Cup 2009 is not only a global competition. Microsoft Switzerlandl provided prizes for all Swiss Imagine Cup 2009 competitors and organized the local Imagine Cup 2009 finals in May 2009 in Bern.

Read more about local Imagine Cup activities: www.microsoft.ch/imaginecup

Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDN AA) is an annual membership program for technical departments in the area of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Design or a similar field. If your institution is an MSDN AA program member, the MSDN AA subscription provides you access to Microsoft platform, servers and developer tools software. You can download and install the software to your personal computer, please note that the software must be used for educational and research purposes only as defined in the license terms.

Swiss DreamSpark gives you direct access to basic development software titles free of charge. To be able to download software from DreamSpark, you must be studying at an accredited academic organization that is connected with the Swiss Authentication and Authentication Infrastructure from SWITCH.

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**Microsoft Switzerland has no obligation to disclose any results, reasons, names or any other information connected with the competition (no correspondence). Competitors have no entitlement to reimbursement of any expenses they may have taken in order to take part in the competition or to any remuneration whatsoever against Microsoft.

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