Imagine Cup rings in its 15th anniversary Microsoft

One of the best parts of my job as Microsoft’s chief evangelist is the opportunity it affords me to interact with students. They Support.Microsoft.Com/Help represent the next generation of innovators, makers and builders, Microsoft Support Phone Number and it is their creativity and hunger to drive change that will help shape what our tomorrow will look like.With that in mind, I am excited to announce  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  the launch of the 2017 Imagine Cup – now celebrating its 15th year as Microsoft’s marquee global student technology Microsoft Support Phone Number competition. This is a big milestone for Imagine Microsoft Customer Service Cup, and I’m proud of how we’ve positively impacted the lives of young developers all over the world.

To celebrate this special anniversary Microsoft Customer Service and match the passion student developers have shown us over the last 15 years, we’ve decided to up Support.Microsoft.Com/Help the ante and double the top prize to $100,000 for the team that is crowned the next Imagine Cup Champion  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help . Student commitment Microsoft Support Phone Number to Imagine Cup has been nothing short of amazing over the years Microsoft Support Phone Number, and we want to reward that commitment with an equally incredible prize experience.

Since the first year of Imagine Cup in 2003, the competition Microsoft Customer Service has provided an international stage for students to show us Microsoft Support Phone Number the power of their technological innovations. Some, such as CliniCloud of Australia, which built an easy-to-use diagnostic  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  device to help parents decide when to take their Support.Microsoft.Com/Help children to the doctor Microsoft Support Phone Number, have gone on to achieve commercial success. Last year,  nabbed $5 million in seed funding and a distribution partnership with mega-electronics retailer Best Buy

Other teams have taken their Microsoft Support Phone Number Imagine Cup projects to the next level by collaborating with globa l partners. Team Virtual Dementia, which created a high-tech way to help caregivers better understand the perspective of people living with dementia  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help , is now bringing its technology to a whole new frontier – outer space – through a partnership with NASA. Earlier this year, the team Microsoft Customer Service – now called Opaque Media Group –  that combines Microsoft’s Kinect technology and a virtual reality headset Microsoft Support Phone Number to allow users Support.Microsoft.Com/Help to experience the feeling of being an astronaut on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Then there’s Team Tactile – a group of six female student developers from MIT – that built a device that will allow people with low or no vision  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  to read everything from textbooks to menus by converting Microsoft Support Phone Number words into Braille on a display roughly Microsoft Customer Service the size of a candy bar. made it all the way to the Imagine Cup U.S. Finals in the spring of 2016, and was Microsoft Support Phone Number one of just four groups of innovators that  Support.Microsoft.Com/Help were accepted into the new Microsoft #MakeWhatsNext Patent Program. Team AMANDA of Greece, which created a gamified virtual reality app to combat bullying and made it all the way to the 2016 Imagine Cup Championship round, was also accepted into the Patent Program.