More than 86,000 students from colleges across India registered for the Imagine Cup competition this year. Five finalists came together on April 29-30 to compete in the Indian Software Design regional finals for the chance to represent India in the world Imagine Cup event in July. Below is an overview of some of the top projects to check out. Congratulations to all of the teams for their hard work and great ideas!
Software Design Category: Grand Prize Winner
Team Invisible Ideas, led by Supreeth S, a student of SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, emerged as the winner of the 2010 India Imagine Cup Finals. Supreeth will go on to represent India at the world finals in Warsaw, Poland this year.
Project: FleX (Fun Learning Experience)
The FleX application is a collaborative learning application which consists of entertaining educational games and a couple of fun activities. It enables the use of more than one mouse on a single computer, allowing all students to learn and play simultaneously. The learning process in a collaborative environment is far more enriching and promotes healthy competition among students and helps in teaching them to work as a team.
Second Place Winner
Team RSS from Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Mumbai University, was named first runner-up in the Software Design competition. Team RSS is comprised of three students & a mentor—Roma Kalani, Shailesh Lohia, Sneha Ledwani & Gokhale Jayanthi (mentor).
Project: Aarogya Marg
The application aims to provide immediate, affordable and local medical assistance to the needy and poor, using portable medical devices, a few essential parameters and service virtualization. The “service virtualization” based architecture tries to eliminate the anomalies of existing systems due to unavailability of services.
Third Place Winner
Third place in the Software Design category went to Team Inferno. Team Inferno is comprised of four students and a mentor from University College of Engineering, Punjabi University – Harpreet Singh Sareen, Amanjot Singh, Gursimran Singh Sahota, Shallu Sarvari & Sukhjot Singh (mentor).
Project: Prakash ESP (Educational Software Package)
It consists of software catering to the learning competencies as well as reading, writing and listening skills of primary school children. It includes Guided Writing, eScribe & an ESP MT Module using MultiPoint Mouse SDK.
Be sure to check out the local award winners on the Imagine Cup India blog and a photo slide show of the Imagine Cup India finals.
