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Microsoft crowns the 2016 Imagine Cup World Champion, Team ENTy of Romania took home the trophy
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Published onJuly 29, 2016
published onJuly 29, 2016
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The annual Imagine Cup World Championship was hosted earlier today where the three remaining student teams competed for the grand prize title. The global technology competition was created to embrace and encourage innovative thinkers and developers. After yesterday’sFinals Awards Ceremony, the three remaining teams held their breath for this morning’s announcement. Team AMANDA’s virtual environment to build empathy against bullying and PH21’s stealth cooperative puzzle game were at the top of their respective categories. Each of them earned $50,000 as a cash prize for the achievement. However, it was Team ENTy’s application for monitoring balance and posture that took thegrand prize.
Flavia Oprea, Iulian-Razvan Matesica, and Cristian Alexandrescu from Romania created a wearable device that would track the posture for users. This was made possible by the use of an accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope that all worked together to record movements in real time. With that information, doctors could determine if the individual was having difficulties in the way that they held themselves or walked due to an inner ear or spinal issue. According toGeekwire, Team ENTy tested with four doctors and approximately 375 patients to with the device.
The team’s commitment to the healthcare field is an admirable one. As team member Oprea stated:
“The medical industry is based on old technology and very expensive, so we said ‘OK, maybe we can make a cheaper technology, an affordable technology,’”
This was theImagine Cup‘s fourteenth event and is still going strong. Over 150 student teams attended the national finals, but that number was narrowed down to the thirty-five that met in the global competition. With Team ENTy’s victory over those odds, they will be rewarded not only with their prize money but awarded a private mentoring session with the CEO Satya Nadella of Microsoft himself.
For the rest of the teams, it’s back to hitting the books and plotting new innovations that just might be next year’s Imagine Cup Championship winner.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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