Alpha Sphere team to represent Armenia in international finals of
Imagine Cup

2008-05-05 20:11:00

ArmInfo. The Alpha Sphere team will represent Armenia in the finals of
the international students’ competition Imagine Cup 2008, which will
take place in Paris in June 2008. Armenian Economy Minister Nerses
Yeritsyan handed a certificate to this team consisting of 5 young
specialists who passed the third stage of the contest and worked out a
project on recovery of waste by means of innovations.

Grigor Barseghyan, Microsoft RA Country Manager, expressed content with
the work of all the teams and noted that Imagine Cup is a wonderful
chance for Armenia to present its serious potential in IT sphere. "This
is a good opportunity for young people to present their ideas, projects
to large international companies", he stressed. Barseghyan promised
that from now on Armenia will annually participate in Imagine Cup.
"Though it is a new aspect of life for Armenia, we’ll exert every type
of effort to turn our participation in the competition into a pleasant
tradition, annually involving more and more young people", he said.

The director of the Enterprises Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan
said that the main selection criteria were innovativeness and technical
potential. "All the works were excellent and deserved victory. We were
amazed that the guys had managed to prepare so serious products in just
six months," Yengibaryan said. Besides the trip to Paris, the winners
have been granted 450,000 AMD. The second and third place winners have
got certificates and 450,000 AMD each. To recall, the subject of the
competition is "Imagine a world where technologies help improve the
environment". The local contests were held in Armenia in three stages,
starting from December 20, 2007. At that time a total of 9 teams were
formed, with four members in each of them.

To note, this project is implemented in Armenia with the support of Bi
Line, Synopsis Armenia, Unicomp and the Union of Informational
Technology Enterprises. The competition Imagine CUP supported and
organized in Armenia by the Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project
(CAPS) is a large international technology competition for students. It
gives them a chance to present their ideas and works in IT sphere. The
project demonstrates the capabilities of the software in settlement of
real problems.