Indian students shine at Microsoft Imagine Cup

Team Kola was represented by Koushik Vaidhinathan,Lalitha Ashok and Kiran Kumar.S,students of Prathyusha Institute of Technology and Management,Chennai. Team Target Locked was represented by Monisha Saggi,Ramya Balasubramaniam and Anwesha Bhattacharjee,students of Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology and University School of Management Studies,GGSIPU,Delhi.

“The Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft is encouraging the brightest young minds to join together and,using technology,take on the toughest problems facing our world today. This year’s competition saw some promising entries from India and then two of them making it to the top three in a category comes as a form of an acknowledgment for the rich talent pool that exists in India” ,states Pratima Amonkar,Director Academia,Microsoft India.

This year 400 students from 70 countries and regions represented for more than 325,000 entrants to this year’s competition. To make it to the finals,the students first had to compete on regional and national levels over the past few months. Every year a theme is identified for the competition keeping in mind the relevant issues affecting the society at large.

This year’s theme was “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems” and the students were required to create technology solutions that combat diseases,improve education,ensure environmental sustainability,and reduce child mortality.