Welcome to Imagine Cup 2015!

Artigo
09/08/2014

I can't believe it's here already! This is the thirteenth season of Imagine Cup but it's only been a few weeks since the 2014 season ended spectacularly with Team Eyenaemia from Australia taking home the Imagine Cup and teams Brainy Studio and Estimeet placing first in Games and Innovation respectively.

Since the end of our 2014 World Finals, we've already flown Brainy Studio back to Seattle so they could attend the PAX Dev game developer's conference and showcase their game for all four days of the PAX Prime game festival.

And later this week, Eyenaemia is returning to Seattle for a private meeting with Bill Gates followed by a week at Microsoft hosted by the YouthSpark team so they can meet with engineers, businesspeople, and other experts to help them move their project forward.

Of course, Team Estimeet has their time coming, too: as the winner of our Innovation competition, they'll be spending four weeks at a Microsoft Ventures accelerator early next year. And I'm sure all three teams are working on how to best use the $50,000 prize each one took home.

Twelve months from now, that could be your team! But there's only one way that's going to happen: you've got to get started on your own amazing Imagine Cup project.

Choose Your Path

The first step is the most important: will you choose the Games Competition, the Innovation Competition, or the World Citizenship Competition? Each one is a very different path including multiple contests. Here's how you choose:

Games: If it's a game, it belongs on the Games Path. If you're hoping to entertain your users, give them a fun interactive experience, or even challenge their assumptions about what a game could be, the Games Path is your home.

Innovation: The Innovation Path is the place for the next big thing. Are you looking to change the way people use technology? Are you planning something that will disrupt the current paradigm? Do you see your app in everyone's hands, all over the world? If that sounds like you, you're in the right place.

World Citizenship: Do you want to make the world a better place? The World Citizenship Path is for projects that want to address an important social problem such as disease, natural disasters, civil rights, poverty, access to vital information, gender equality, and so on. It's about solving real problems for real people.

Take the Challenges

Within each path, we have four contests: the Pitch Video Challenge, the Project Blueprint Challenge, the User Experience Challenge, and finally the main competition itself. You don't have to compete in all the contests for a given path -- you can do one, skip one, whatever you like. But we can tell you from experience that students who compete in one or more of the Challenges do better when they reach the main competition. Last year, of the 171 teams who reached the World Semifinals round, almost half had previously competed in one of our Challenges.

For this year's Challenges, we have changed the rules and the submission requirements for each one so they are tightly integrated into their Path. For example, that means the User Experience Challenge for the Games Path has different materials and different judging criteria than the one for the World Citizenship path.

Introducing Code Hunt

We also have one entirely new contest to share with you, and it's a great one. In partnership with Microsoft Research, we are very excited to bring you the Code Hunt Challenge! Code Hunt is an online coding puzzle game created by Microsoft Research. It's fast, fun, and really cool. Anyone with basic programming skills can try Code Hunt right now on their website to learn what it's like, but every month from now through April we'll have a special 48-hour Code Hunt Challenge! Register right here at the Imagine Cup site and on the third weekend of each month, you'll have access to a special Code Hunt puzzle just for Imagine Cup students. The top scoring student each month will win $1,000 and every student who competes will be eligible for our $5,000 grand-prize sweepstakes!

Can You Imagine?

The 2014 season of Imagine Cup was incredible, and I know many of the teams who competed will go on to launch great projects this year, next year, and beyond. But I also know that there is a whole new wave of students who will do amazing work and surprise us all over again. Will you be one of them? Imagine that!

John Scott Tynes
Microsoft Student Developers Program Lead

Comments

Anonymous
September 11, 2014
When is the next competition commencing?
- Anonymous
  October 16, 2014
  18 of september
Anonymous
September 11, 2014
I really want to join a teamOr anyone else wants to form a new one?
- Anonymous
  November 07, 2014
  me too .My Team welcomes you.
- Anonymous
  April 20, 2015
  Hey can we form a team
Anonymous
September 11, 2014
I want to join a team
- Anonymous
  September 12, 2014
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  - Anonymous
    September 20, 2014
    yup
- Anonymous
  September 13, 2014
  I am from Vietnam, I want to join a new team :)
- Anonymous
  September 13, 2014
  Should we for a new team?
  - Anonymous
    September 13, 2014
    Hey add me in your team. I am from India.
    - Anonymous
      September 14, 2014
      Now we have four people here :D
      - Anonymous
        September 14, 2014
        Anybody with a team and a task? I am from Kenya
        
        Anonymous
        September 15, 2014
        Does anyone know how to create a team and add us in?
        
        Anonymous
        September 18, 2014
        Alvis.. Can I add you in my second team?
        
        Anonymous
        September 18, 2014
        Nice! Thank you
        
        Anonymous
        April 20, 2015
        can we form a team
        
        Anonymous
        April 20, 2015
        lets form a team
    - Anonymous
      September 26, 2014
      I hail from Malaysia, could I join your team?
  - Anonymous
    September 20, 2014
    Venezuela here
- Anonymous
  September 25, 2014
  ya u can joinn mine Sam Developers
- Anonymous
  November 04, 2014
  From New York. I would like to form a new team with you
- Anonymous
  February 13, 2015
  I'm from Mexico searching for a team ;D
Anonymous
September 13, 2014
The comment has been removed
- Anonymous
  September 15, 2014
  The comment has been removed
- Anonymous
  December 09, 2014
  You from Philippines? Do you have a team already? I would like to join in.
Anonymous
September 14, 2014
I need a bangladeshi member in my team . my fb :https://www.facebook.com/imran.c.emi
Anonymous
September 15, 2014
When is the Imagine Cup 2015 start date?
Anonymous
September 15, 2014
wow amazing competition,i never have seen this kind of contest ever before awaiting to participate ......
Anonymous
September 16, 2014
Is there a community where we can meet new friends?
Anonymous
September 16, 2014
I am going to make a team..........who is interested to join
- Anonymous
  September 16, 2014
  Me
  - Anonymous
    September 16, 2014
    Do u want to be in my team
    - Anonymous
      September 16, 2014
      Can I be in your team?
      - Anonymous
        September 26, 2014
        YES U CAN
        
        Anonymous
        September 26, 2014
        What's your email
        
        Anonymous
        September 27, 2014
        My email ID: rishikeshpaul69@live.com
- Anonymous
  September 29, 2014
  me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
September 16, 2014
Hey guys I've created a new team named SCORPIO for innovation challenge any Indians want to be in the team
Anonymous
September 17, 2014
Happy to join this group of enthusiasts like me
Anonymous
September 19, 2014
whhoop!!.. much excited :)
Anonymous
September 19, 2014
is there anyone interested in being my team member?
- Anonymous
  September 19, 2014
  Hi may I join your team?
- Anonymous
  September 19, 2014
  Yes. I'd appreciate if I could join you. I'm from California
  - Anonymous
    October 02, 2014
    Me too, if you have from space.
Anonymous
September 19, 2014
I really want to join in some team. I'm from California.
- Anonymous
  December 09, 2014
  Add me if there is place in your team my fb id is syedyaseenuddin@rocketmail.com
Anonymous
September 19, 2014
Hi, I'm from Tempe, Arizona. I am looking to join a team. If anybody is looking for a teammate, ping me at https://www.facebook.com/ganirudh.
Anonymous
September 20, 2014
Hey , Everyone , I'm Developer(B/S ,Web) , from china mainland , I have a passion for technology, In third years of Website&business, And I Participated in many speech (Thousands of spectators), Now back to the College from the Society, I want to find some friends to do something together , If you've got interests in this , please contact me, Email: internet0574@163.com & super-giraffe@qq.com . Let your story becomes our story , Thanks :)
- Anonymous
  December 28, 2014
  i am interested
Anonymous
September 21, 2014
I am having a problem while i clicked a link to Play the codehunt chaallenge in code hunt website. The error Said : "LOCKED"and i have 4 options to select for 01Earth02Moon03Sun04StarsWhat should i do ?
Anonymous
September 21, 2014
Hi I'm from Oklahoma and I'm really excited to join a team. Is there any team left that can add me message me www.facebook.com/prashannaaryal.
Anonymous
September 23, 2014
i was among top 9 teams in pitch video contest 2k14 but they had not shipped my certificates and package yet....and the frustrating part is that ...they even not answering to my mail. shamefull :(
- Anonymous
  September 23, 2014
  Really Man can your whatsapp me on my number *** and email id is surajhinge@hotmail.com
Anonymous
September 23, 2014
whatsapp me on my number *** and email id is surajhinge@hotmail.com join me internationally
- Anonymous
  September 26, 2014
  HEY why don't u join my team.Just think and reply me as early as possiblke
Anonymous
September 29, 2014
can anyone join me in imagine cup ??
- Anonymous
  November 17, 2014
  Which competition are you joining, game, innovation or world citizenship?
Anonymous
September 29, 2014
Hello,I am a student accountant and computer engineer from NZ. This is my 1st time here :DAnyone keen to take me onboard? :P
- Anonymous
  October 02, 2014
  Hey, I'm Developer(B/S ,Web) , from china mainland , I have a passion for technology, In third years of Website&business, And I Participated in many speech (Thousands of spectators), Now back to the College from the Society, I want to find some friends to do something together , If you've got interests in this , please contact me, Email: internet0574@163.com & super-giraffe@qq.com . Let your story becomes our story , Thanks
  - Anonymous
    November 20, 2014
    is your team made?
Anonymous
September 30, 2014
Hello Guys, I am from India and Want to be a part of any team
Anonymous
September 30, 2014
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Anonymous
October 02, 2014
Can I join anyone's team? Let me know!
Anonymous
October 03, 2014
Imagine since I lost for 2014's registrations. This time I have registered 1yrs earlier (_) to compete and win ($_$)Dream It! Build It! Live It!
Anonymous
October 04, 2014
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Anonymous
October 10, 2014
Im from zimbabwe want to join a team
- Anonymous
  November 06, 2014
  Have you found a team Rumbie?
Anonymous
October 15, 2014
Lets do this!
Anonymous
October 26, 2014
I want to jion a team
Anonymous
November 02, 2014
is the competition of imagine cup start ?
Anonymous
November 04, 2014
I will surprise the whole world... Can you imagine
Anonymous
November 04, 2014
I wanna join a team.
Anonymous
November 18, 2014
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Anonymous
November 22, 2014
i am from India and i want to join a team.
Anonymous
November 22, 2014
我电脑技术不高，可以报名吗？
Anonymous
November 22, 2014
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Anonymous
November 22, 2014
I want to present my technology idea, which could change the way people use technology. But it doesn't primarily use any software, its a device. I wanna know is it a valid entry for imagine cup, if so then under which category does this comes under. Thanks in advance.
- Anonymous
  December 17, 2014
  Hello , I'm from Brazil , and I am interested in getting into a team. And the next ImagineCup , will be here in my parents .. uhuuinterested: willwcw@gmail.com
Anonymous
November 25, 2014
I want to join a team
Anonymous
December 03, 2014
Amazing
Anonymous
December 05, 2014
i want to join
Anonymous
December 05, 2014
i want to join
Anonymous
December 09, 2014
Hi everyone I am from india and need to join a team so can anyone add me. Message me on fb my id is syedyaseenuddin@rocketmail.com
- Anonymous
  July 26, 2015
  The comment has been removed
Anonymous
December 09, 2014
I am from INDIA. I want to join a team . if anyone forming a new team n intrested for members . mail me at . sanjana.pattnaik1995@gmail.com.
- Anonymous
  December 17, 2014
  Hello , I'm from Brazil , and I am interested in getting into a team. And the next ImagineCup , will be here in my parents .. uhuuinterested: willwcw@gmail.com
- Anonymous
  February 12, 2015
  I build a team so you intrast to join team send conformation message to my mailmy mail malleshnm9@gmail.com
- Anonymous
  July 26, 2015
  The comment has been removed
Anonymous
December 18, 2014
I am interested in joining a team from India(Telangana) Region..Please do ping me!!!!
- Anonymous
  February 12, 2015
  I build a team so you intersat to join my team send conformation message to mailmy mail malleshnm9@gmail.com
Anonymous
December 21, 2014
Hi I'm from China, can one team have more then 4 members?In the web,one team can only accept 4 members.Thank you~
Anonymous
December 25, 2014
am toooooooo excited to participate
Anonymous
December 28, 2014
who has a team? Can i ?
Anonymous
December 28, 2014
is there anyone want to build up a team together?
Anonymous
December 28, 2014
how do I get in the first round
Anonymous
December 30, 2014
can i participate in imagine cup alone.or how can i get a random team
Anonymous
January 05, 2015
is there any special rule for World Citizenship category?
Anonymous
January 06, 2015
i really want to join a team
Anonymous
January 09, 2015
Hi everyone I am from cameroon and need to join a team so can anyone add me. Message me on fb my id is fotsogaston@yahoo.fr
Anonymous
January 14, 2015
I got it!
Anonymous
February 01, 2015
How may I expect a job at Microsoft through ImagineCup
Anonymous
February 01, 2015
I want to join a team. Please contact me at mailtobasu.7@gmail.com
Anonymous
February 13, 2015
Am in. Ready to Compete.
Anonymous
February 13, 2015
I'm from Mexico searching for a team ;D
Anonymous
February 14, 2015
I want to join in a team... anyone interested??
Anonymous
February 23, 2015
I am really excited.........for this event or competition
Anonymous
February 24, 2015
Hi, just wondering how you enter this competition and submit your application? I've found this page but there's no email or submission link. I'm looking to enter the World Citizenship comp. Thanks
Anonymous
March 01, 2015
Where can I find the deadlines of competition ?
Anonymous
March 31, 2015
who can tell me how to submit my projiect
Anonymous
April 01, 2015
i live in Saudi Arabia , i have a lot of good ideas and i need a good team
Anonymous
April 03, 2015
When will be the result of video submission be declaring #Imaginecup2015
Anonymous
April 13, 2015
any one wants to join my team?
Anonymous
April 14, 2015
I have little more than a concept i have been searching to complete graphene nanobots using lasers to etch artificial diamonds ti use impurities as the diodes for circuitry to assemble diamond graphene exoskeleton better than ironman as well as instant hardware emulation of all machines and electonic devices by programmed replication... i nead a team as i have none of the resources or skills to complete this alone.... reach me at firobug@gmail or facebook.com/grapheneexoskeleton to form a team
Anonymous
April 20, 2015
Hi am from Kenya and am looking forward to this Competition
Anonymous
December 05, 2015
I have formed a team and registered for 'Hello Cloud' contest. Someone please tell me whether we can participate in it or not, as it initiated in September.If we can, why isn't there any option for submitting an entry?Please reply asap.

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