ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN IMAGINE CUP IN 2007 FOR THE FIRST TIME
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2007-12-20 18:10:00
ArmInfo. Armenia will participate in the IV annual International
Student IT competition "Imagine Cup 2008", the final of which will
be held in Paris.
As Director of Armenian representation of MICROSOFT corporation
Grikor Barseghyan told journalists, Thursday, the competition, which
is turning to global technological competition, helps students from
different countries of the world to fulfill their potential and to
turn their ideas into viable projects. "Annually MICROSOFT announces
a certain topic, for which young people must find solutions and
afterwards participate in Imagine Cup", G. Barseghyan said. At the
same time, ha said that taking into consideration global warming in
the recent years, the topic of the 2008 competition will be "Imagine
the world in which technologies help improve the environment".
According to him, 9 nominations are represented in the Imagine Cup
2008 including software design, creation of programming algorithm,
programming interfaces, computer games, photo contest, short
film contest, simplified apparatus, in which hardware, etc. are
used. Moreover, G. Barseghyan emphasized, 8 out of 9 nominations
are organized on- line, i.e students may participate in 8 contests
via Internet and the software development nomination will be held
locally. "This competition is attractive because successful IT
-solutions may become business-cases, i.e. a base for creating new
companies", he said and added that this competition provides a good
opportunity for Armenian students and young people to show the level
of IT sphere in Armenia.
For his part, Chairman of Enterprise Incubator Foundation Bagrat
Yengibarian said that the competitions will be held in three
phases. Thus, in the first phase, which started December 20 and will
last till February 15, potential participants must register on site
of Imagine Cup and to describe the software, developed for solving
the problem proposed, to form teams of 3-4 people. "These teams
must identify the problem for themselves, then find IT -solutions,
which will be assessed by the jury, which includes not only local
MICROSOFT representatives, but also other authoritative people from
different fields of activity", B. Yengibaryan explained. He said that
in the second phase, which will last February 15- April 20, 2008,
the teams must present software application. "After it the jury
will chose IT-solutions of 10-15 teams to participate in the next
phase. And since this event is held among Armenian students for the
first time, the organizers intend to render them technical support",
B. Yengibaryan emphasized. In the third phase, which is to end on
April 25, the best programming solutions will be presented and the
winning team will be declared. The latter will participate in Imagine
Cup in Paris in June 2008.
Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project (CAPS) is also organizer of
the competition in Armenia. Bi Line, Synopsis Armenia, Unicomp and the
Union of IT Enterprises of Armenia promote the program implementation
in Armenia.
Thus Imagine Cup competition is the largest international technological
competition for students. It gives the students an opportunity to
present their most courageous ideas and creations in IT sphere. The
projects demonstrate software capabilities in the solution of real
problems. The final of Imagine Cup 2007 was held in Seoul.