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Australian Students Imagine Best

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Brilliant news this week from France (Musée du Louvre to be precise)!

After a week of intense but respectful competition among finalists at the 2008 Imagine Cup, Australia’s Team SOAK was announced the winners of the worldwide Software Design invitational.

The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition

The Australian team’s software solution - SOAK - is an integrated software and hardware platform with the aspiration of helping farmers achieve sustainable use of their land. It does this through the integrated use of environmental sensing, rich visual front ends to display information to the farmer, and a subsystem that controls farm equipment such as sprinkler systems. Put simply it is a smart and efficient water management system for farmers.

The Australian team of David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng were selected from a total of 370 students from 124 teams representing 61 countries and regions who competed in the worldwide Imagine Cup finals in nine categories. The finalists had been chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions.

Making their win even more meritorious was the fact that each member of the Australian team came from a different Australian University (Swinburne University of Technology, University of Melbourne, University of Tasmania, and Monash University).

In addition to winning the Software Design invitational the Australian team is one of six to be selected to explore how their software solution could potentially turn into a business reality. The team will receive intense business and technology training as part of the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program, co-sponsored by Microsoft and British Telecommunications plc (BT).

A big thank you to those teachers, mentors and friends, who have inspired, encouraged, permitted and at times perhaps cajoled these Australians to follow their dreams and apply their talents in the field of information technology.

Registrations for the 2009 Imagine Cup are now open. More information about Imagine Cup can be found at https://www.imaginecup.com.

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