Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalists

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Of all the environmental- and sustainability-themed finalist projects, 35% included Bing Maps to assist users in making the world a more environmentally friendly place

% of all healthcare-related finalist projects used Windows Phone, providing healthcare tools and resources for people in remote areas across the globe

Nearly half of all finalist projects (45%) employ Windows Azure, taking advantage of the cloud to help solve the world’s toughest problems, from tracking pollutions levels in the environment to diagnosing diseases

Nearly half (49%) of all projects, and 85% of Game Design projects specifically, address environmental issues such as recycling, energy consumption and pollution monitoring

Of all the teams that utilized Windows Phone, more than half (58%) also deployed Windows Azure

Nearly 20% of Worldwide Finalists are women with three all-women teams competing in the Software Design category (from the countries of Qatar, Oman and Ecuador)

66% of all education-focused projects made education more interactive with Kinect for Xbox 360

23% of projects were created to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities, such as visual and hearing impairments, and diseases that limit a human’s physical mobility

65% of all projects addressed health topics, such as diagnosis of diseases, via mobile applications and proactive accessibility of medical information

% of finalist projects used Windows 8

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62% of all finalist teams (64 projects) incorporated Windows Phone technology into their projects

Of the 24 projects designed to increase accessibility for the disabled, such as those suffering from blindness or paralysis, two-thirds (66%) utilize Kinect for Xbox 360 technology

Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalist ProjectsCountry Teams Country Teams Country Teams Country Teams Country TeamsAlgeria 2 Czech Republic 2 Italy 1 Oman 1 Slovenia 1Argentina 1 Dominica Republic 1 Ivory Coast 1 Pakistan 1 South Africa 1Armenia 1 Ecuador 1 Japan 3 Palestinian Authorities 1 Spain 1Australia 1 Egypt 3 Jordan 1 Peru 1 Sri Lanka 1Bahrain 1 Finland 2 Kazakhstan 1 Philippines 1 Taiwan 1Bangladesh 1 France 4 Korea 3 Poland 3 Thailand 2Belgium 2 Georgia 1 Kuwait 1 Portugal 2 Tunisia 1Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Germany 1 Lebanon 1 Puerto Rico 1 Turkey 1

Brazil 5 Greece 1 Lithuania 1 Qatar 1 Uganda 1Bulgaria 1 Hungary 1 Malaysia 1 Romania 4 Ukraine 3Canada 1 Iceland 1 Malta 1 Russia 1 United Arab Emirates 1Chile 1 India 1 Mexico 1 Senegal 1 United Kingdom 1China 2 Indonesia 2 Morocco 1 Serbia 1 United States 3Croatia 1 Iraq 1 New Zealand 1 Singapore 1 Venezuela 1Cyprus 1 Ireland 1 Nigeria 1 Slovakia 1 Vietnam 1

Software Design FinalistsCountry Team Name School(s) Project Description Technologies

Algeria Team Nakama

Ecole Nationale Superieure En Informatique (Esi), Ensm and USTHB

Brainiac is a hardware and software application that helps simplify technology use for individuals who are physically disabled and unable to use a computer without assistance.

Visual Studio 2010,Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio

Argentina Team BoddyMusic

Santa Teresa de Jesús, Instituto San Alberto

BoddyMusic is a virtual classroom application that specializes in music education for people with disabilities, enabling users to play various musical instruments with body movements via Kinect for Xbox 360.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows Phone

Armenia Team mLabState Engineering University of Armenia, YSLU

CleanH2O is an app that allows mobile users to assess the quality of drinking water via a water-testing device attached to a smartphone. The software provides statistical data on pollution levels and makes the data available to others worldwide.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing

Australia Team StethoCloud

University of Melbourne

StethoCloud is a cloud-powered, mobile-hybrid stethoscope for early detection of pneumonia. By connecting a custom stethoscope to a Windows Phone, the user is able to transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service, reproducing the diagnostic capability of a trained medical doctor.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure

Bahrain Team FutureTorch

AMA International University

LED Intensity Grid Highway Tracking and Surveillance System (L.I.G.H.T.S.) is a sensor system to allow streetlights to turn on when motion is detected and turn off accordingly.

.NET Platform, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010

Bangladesh Team EngineBUET, American International University — Bangladesh and NSU

Annapurna is an agricultural resource platform that can increase land productivity and improve cultivation planning with intelligent natural resource management. With the help of database technologies, this system provides personalized cultivation guidelines through data mining, as well as GIS-based satellite imaging.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7, Windows Live

Belgium Team Make A Sign

Haute Ecole Rennequin Sualem, Inpres

Make a Sign is a sign language database for all languages, based on Kinect technology, enabling students of many different languages to learn to sign.

Kinect for Xbox 360,Windows Phone, Windows Azure

Bosnia and Herzegovina SPU Team

Slobomir P University and Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad

ICU is a software application designed to aid the blind by projecting images and distances of objects onto one's forearm through a matrix of vibrating electro motors. The sense of touch provides a “picture” that can be used as a map.

Windows 7, Kinect for Xbox 360

Brazil Team Digital Mangue

Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, POLI - UPE

First Care System monitors patients in real time, which can enhance the work of medical teams by using devices that capture and process the vital signs immediately and send the information through a common wireless network.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 7

Bulgaria Team K-Vision

American University in Bulgaria, Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridski

C-Path helps the visually impaired to navigate more easily in their surroundings by safely avoiding obstacles through a Kinect and smartphone navigation system.

Windows Phone, Kinect for Xbox 360

Canada Team Greeni Centennial College, George Brown College

Using a Kinect sensor, light sensors, CO2 sensors and code running on Azure, this team created Green Project, a sensor system that will determine when to turn fans and lights on and off. It can also be controlled by voice.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Azure

Chile Team Lifeware Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

IntegraKinect is a tool for people with cerebral palsy that enables them to interact with a computer through a Kinect sensor and microphones to capture sound and movement.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7

China Team Xight Wuhan UniversityGlazIO is a low-cost system that captures the direction of an individual’s optical focus based on pattern recognition with Kinect, so individuals who are paralyzed or have missing limbs can use a computer.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7

Croatia Team Spectrum

PMF - Fizički odsjek, University of Zagreb, Edukacijsko Rehabilitacijski Fakultet

Team Spectrum created a navigation system for visually impaired individuals in indoor environments. Through "wall markers," a Windows Phone detects objects in the environment and provides voice directions to aid navigation.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8

Cyprus Team BrightSight University of Cyprus BrightSight is a Braille messenger app for the Windows Phone that enables an

eyes-free method for texting. Windows Phone

Czech Republic Team JoyMind

Masaryk University, Mendelova University v Brne, Univerzita Hradec

The JoyMind application is a system for teaching English vocabulary based on three pillars: Learn, Speak and Move. Via Web, phone and Kinect-based applications, users have a low-cost and interactive way to learn a new language.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7

Dominican Republic

Team Fellowship of the Ring

Universidad Acción Pro-Educación y Cultura

The Statistics of Health and Economy by Location project is an application that provides a way to measure air quality at a given site.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7

Ecuador Team Kany Escuela Superior Team Kany Warmys has created a mobile phone app called Cyclops. Users tell the Windows Phone, .Net

Warmys Politécnica de Chimborazo

phone where they would like to go via a voice command, and then the Cyclops app provides voice directions to the location with route details for the visually impaired.

and Bing Maps

Egypt Team Level Up Mansoura UniversityLevel Up allows disabled persons who cannot use their hands to control their PC to receive the benefits of computer services such as writing, reading, learning and working.

Windows 7, Kinect for Xbox 360

Finland Team Matalapaine

Turku University of applied sciences, Turun Yliopisto

Pregnancy 2 Baby is a system for pregnant mothers called a Mobile Maternity Card. It’s an application to track and store data relating to a pregnancy. The program allows the user to take notes each day on the status of the pregnancy, including weight, status and health checks.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone

France Team CapStreetISCOM Toulouse, Ingesup, SUPINFO Toulouse

CapStreet consists of a website and application designed to map out accessible routes for people with disabilities. CapStreet will suggest differing routes for those in wheelchairs and on crutches, all according to the profile the user creates. It also allows user-generated updates to routes.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone

Georgia Team Green Bytes

Tbilisi State University, International Black Sea University, Georgian Technical University

Green Bytes’ project focuses on environmental protection by helping users manage large volumes of garbage and waste.

Windows 8, Windows Phone, Bing Maps

Germany Team Greenway

Universität Bielefeld, FH Hannover, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Greenway is a navigation system with the potential to reduce the CO2 emissions of cars by preventing traffic congestion. The system proactively routes city traffic by calculating the best route for each car and communicating that information to each driver.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows 8

Greece Team Symbiosis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Symbiosis provides therapy for Alzheimer’s patients through augmented reality (AR) and provides support to all people affected by Alzheimer’s, such as caregivers and doctors.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows 8

India Team D Labs BIT Mesra Ranchi

D Labs allows tutors to understand the behavioral patterns of children with dyslexia by using games to assist them in alphabet identification and movement recognition.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Azure, XNA Game Studio, Windows 8

Indonesia Team Malabar Institut Teknologi Telkom

BrainStat is an application used to monitor the condition of drivers on the road, including levels of fatigue and loss of concentration and stress. BrainStat will give an early warning to the driver to prevent car accidents that may occur because of driver error.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7

Iraq Team Mirage Tech

American University of Iraq - Sulaimani

EasyRoute is a traffic reporting system designed to prevent car accidents and traffic jams. This system can be leveraged in a variety of ways, such as allowing companies to track their deliveries and giving city officials useful data on traffic congestion.

Windows Phone, Bing, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010

Ireland Team docTek National University of Ireland Maynooth

docTek Systems is a cloud-based healthcare management system designed for patients with multiple sclerosis. The application allows patients to manage their medication and symptoms using their mobile phones or the Internet and gives doctors access to patient data.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows 8

Italy Team Italian Seconda Università di The Fifth Element Project gives autistic children the opportunity to learn and Kinect for Xbox 360,

Ingenium

Napoli Ingegneria, Università del Salento, Università di Roma Tre, Politecnico di Milano

develop their intellectual skills through play and movement. It features voice recognition and motion detection and can be used in rehabilitation centers or remotely.

Windows Azure, Windows 7, Windows 8

Ivory Coast Team E-Soft

Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny de Yamoussoukro

Evolve Safely enables real-time monitoring of the environmental settings in industrial areas to help maintain an adequate living environment for local populations and help administrative authorities address environmental threats.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows 7, Bing, .NET Platform, Visual Studio 2010

Japan Team Coccolo Tokyo National College of Technology

All Lights is a system that enables LED lamps to communicate with each other and automatically dim if there is more light in the room than needed, which allows the user to save on energy costs.

Windows Azure, Windows 7

Jordan Team Dancing Pillow

Yarmouk University, Jordan University of Science and Technology

The dancing pillow is an electronic pillow that wakes hearing-impaired individuals and those with sleep disorders by employing multiple methods such as light, vibration, sound and smell.

Windows Phone

Kazakhstan Team Etzoockee

Kazakh-British Technical University

Archangel is a cloud-based management system designed for people who are in emergency situations. It’s an extensible software-hardware system consisting of mobile and desktop applications and a drone, which can be used to deliver first-aid kits, medicines or other necessities.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7

Korea Team Let IT Bee

Kookmin University, Sangmyung University, Sungkonghoe University, 이화여자대학교

Let IT Bee is designed to support the bee farming business by aiding farmers and local companies. This app records inspections, treatments and feedings; tracks colony temperament; and records honey harvest, using cloud, Web and mobile platforms.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 8

Kuwait Team Code Breakers

American University of Kuwait

Universal Sign System recognizes sign language and synthesizes it into a human voice, allowing hearing- and speaking-impaired individuals to engage in spoken conversations. It also allows users to capture and translate new sign words into their dictionary.

.NET Platform, Windows 7, Windows 8, Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET Platform, Visual Studio 2010

Lebanon Team Cake American University of Beirut

Turn on the Light (TOTL) is a 2-D video game that challenges players to use renewable energy resources to solve puzzles. Throughout the game, players gain knowledge that they use to win and improve the environment.

.NET Platform, Visual Studio 2010

Malaysia Team RhapsodyAsia Pacific University College of Technology & Innovation,

WizBoard is an application that can be used across multiple locations by students who speak different languages and individuals with disabilities to make lessons more accessible in school districts that may have teacher shortages.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing, .NET Platform, Microsoft Silverlight

Malta Team TDGS University of Malta The Digital Guide System (TDGS) gives visually impaired individuals an alternative to using guide dogs for mobility. Instead, this solutions uses stereovision cameras

Windows 7, .NET Platform, Visual Studio

to capture the world in front of them and audio cues to detect obstacles in their environment.

2010, Microsoft SQL Server

Mexico Team ReImagine

Universidad Panamericana

KIWI is a platform that helps to both diagnose and treat attention deficit disorder. It consists of educational software and exercises, along with software that helps developers, doctors and teachers create and personalize applications that will enhance the treatment for these students.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7, Windows 8

Morocco Team Golden Drop

Supinfo International University, Institut polytechnique privé de Casablanca

This team created a prototype that gives individuals with HIV and AIDS increased access to treatment. The solution can test blood samples and, if positive, direct the individual to the nearest health center via an interactive map.

Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows 8, Windows Phone

New Zealand Team MobileEye

Auckland University of Technology, University of Auckland

Mobile Eye enables visually impaired people to be more independent. The solution enables a phone to verbally describe an individual’s surroundings and take guided pictures of the area. It uses a mixture of human intelligence and artificial intelligence to provide vital information about what is being “seen.”

Windows Azure, Windows Phone, .NET, Visual Studio

Nigeria Team Gravity Obafemi Awolowo University

SwiftER is an application designed to improve the response time of medical, security and other emergency service providers. It will save lives and ensure that emergency help reaches those in need as soon as possible.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Oman Team Grawesome

Sultan Qaboos University

Blood It monitors blood bank levels and sends alerts to eligible donors via SMS when there are shortages. The mobile-based application uses a GPS system to locate the nearest donors of the particular blood group affected, helping encourage donations and make blood banks more efficient.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7, Visual Studio

Pakistan Team CeloksNUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

SEED is a mobile-based application that helps streamline food donations to those who are hungry. Individuals who see an area with hungry people can register it on the mobile application and note where a surplus of food is available. Volunteers can then collect the food from one place and deliver it to the other.

Bing, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, .NET Platform, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010

Palestinian Authorities Team flyKIT An-Najah National

University

Blind Guidance System (BGS) helps the visually impaired to independently complete daily tasks and move freely in their environment by using live voice feedback and a moving mechanical stack with wheels.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect .NET, .Net Framework 4.0, WCF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows 8

Peru Team Wake Up Universidad de San Martin de Porres

Project Wake Up allows children with Down syndrome to improve their attention, memory, communication, motor skills and perception by using Kinect and Natural User Interface. Additional components of Wake Up include gesture recognition, color tracking and artificial intelligence.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Azure

Philippines Team Divided By Zero

De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde

KidCAMP gives teachers and families of autistic children affordable education tools designed to monitor student performance, improve communication and augment

Kinect for Xbox 360,

existing special education curriculum by using the Internet and a mobile application.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone , Windows 7

Poland Team ARMED Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna

Sensor Amplified Perception for Explosives Recognition identifies hidden explosive devices and land mines using magnetic field distortion, which provides civilians in third-world countries a cost-effective way to detect remnant explosives by using a Windows Phone app.

Windows Phone

Portugal Team wi-GO Universidade da Beira Interior

wi-GO is a robotic cart designed to improve the mobility of people with special needs by using motors and sensors powered by Kinect. The device is programmed to follow mobility-challenged people in everyday settings, including public places, home and work.

Kinect for Xbox 360, .NET, Windows 8

Puerto Rico Team Think Universidad Metropolitana

Think! gives children the tools they need to improve their memory and enhance hand-eye coordination by using Kinect to play games. For example, one game instructs children to connect dots to create a drawing, which helps to sharpen their coordination.

Kinect for Xbox 360

QatarTeam Technology Lanterns

Qatar University3D-KINDIO helps the blind and visually impaired navigate the world around them independently by using a helmet-mounted Kinect camera, 3-D audio and AR technologies.

Kinect for Xbox 360, 3-D audio, augmented reality (AR)

Romania Team IQube Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara

LiveX gives elementary school students across the globe access to affordable science curriculum by using wireless interactive digital cubes connected directly to the cloud.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone, .NET

Russia Team Bonjour Development

Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics

M.D.Voice is a system for early diagnosis of throat diseases through use of voice analysis using Windows Phone and the cloud. Patients can identify diseases such as throat cancer in the early stages simply by speaking into their phones.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure

Senegal Team Sen Section

Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de DAKAR and Université Cheikh Anta Diop FST Section Informatique

Tataane is a system for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that send investigators into areas of isolation; it allows investigators to use mobile phones rather than paper for their surveys in the field and sends the data automatically to a system administrator who can collect and use it for business intelligence purposes.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7, Windows 8

Serbia Team CatchCake VTS Subotica

Digital Radar Aided Care is used by blind and visually impaired people, assisting them in their travels and during daily activities. By using Windows Phone, users are alerted to objects that may block their way by the use of sounds.

Windows Phone

Singapore Team AlphaWaves

Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT

Dementia Assistance and Recall Engine is a Web-based scrapbook designed to capture memories for the elderly and those suffering from dementia. The goal is

Windows Azure, Windows 8

to stimulate recall of past memories through photographs and other media that can be presented on a PC or tablet.

Slovakia Team OwNetSlovak University of Technology in Bratislava

OwNet addresses the negative impact that poor Internet connectivity can have on schools, offering teachers and students a faster and more efficient way to use the Web for educational purposes, including collaboration tools.

Windows 7, .NET, Visual Studio

Slovenia Team Osmosis

Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana

Osmosis is a charity-based Web platform designed to efficiently transfer funds and knowledge between the developed and developing worlds. The first phase of the project will focus on building infrastructure such as roads, schools, medical facilities and water sources.

Windows Phone, Windows 8, Internet Explorer, Windows Azure, .NET Platform, Bing, Skype

South Africa Team Asclepius University of Johannesburg

This project assists in early detection of tuberculosis by helping radiologists analyze large volumes of chest radiographs and highlighting potential problem areas through an automated process.

Windows 7, C++, OpenGL, GLSL (OpenGL Shader Language), GLee (OpenGL Easy Extension Library), wxWidgets GUI toolkit

Spain Team HealthConnect

Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Universidad de Alcalá, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática

Highway to Health gives medical volunteers and doctors a simple and efficient way to collect information from patients, perform remote consultations with specialists, monitor vital signs of patients and promote healthy habits. It also allows for remote consultations via videoconference with specialists for patients from disadvantaged areas.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight

Sri Lanka Team V360

University of Moratuwa-Faculty of Information Technology-Sri Lanka

Back2Earth is a mobile application designed to monitor pollution through crowd sourcing while transmitting the data to public authorities. It also incorporates gaming to connect with social media users through Facebook, to elevate awareness around pollution monitoring and prevention.

Bing, Windows Phone, Microsoft Silverlight

Taiwan Team uCHAMPsys

National Cheng Kung University

uCHAMPsys provides users with Web-based tools to assess their personal health and help them lead better lifestyles. Using a body sensor, the cloud-based solution offers suggestions on exercises and activities based on users’ age and weight.

Windows Phone

Thailand Team Novitat

Mahidol University, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

The Smart House provides assistance to aging adults who may require extra care or monitoring so they can safely live independently. It focuses on reusing existing technology they are already familiar with; hence, they can easily live in an intelligent environment without having to understand new or sophisticated tools.

Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows 8, .NET

Tunisia Team Heroes Come Back

Mediterranean School of Business, Facule de Medecine Monastir

Call U allows disabled individuals, amputees and those suffering from Parkinson’s disease to use their smartphones without touching them by using voice commands. In addition, by using Kinect, users can independently operate their smartphones remotely through gesture-driven commands.

Kinect for Xbox 360

Turkey Team Repharmers

Eskisehir Osmangazi University

By using Repharm, users can create a recycling center to recycle their unused and unexpired medicines. As a result, less medicine is wasted and expired medicine can be disposed of properly by collection centers.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET

Uganda TeamCipher256

Makerere University This team created a mobile application called WIN-SENGA that aids midwives as they assist expectant mothers. The algorithm does a conversion of frequency

Windows Azure, Windows Phone,

(hertz) to beats per minute of the fetus, analyzes its position in the uterus, approximates the age of the fetus and records these readings to the cloud.

Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio

Ukraine Team quadSquad

Computer Academy "Step" Donetsk

Enable Talk was created to give disabled individuals with limited communication abilities a better way to communicate. It transforms sign language into a form of verbal communication by creating a mobile device that continuously recognizes sign language phonemes.

Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7, Windows 8

United Arab Emirates

Team RevolUtion

University of Wollongong Dubai

Reutilizer features a mobile application and website for the food industry to tackle waste management. Through coordination on the app and website, a collection of waste is gathered and sold in bulk to biofuels plants, which allows the users to receive cash rewards.

.NET Platform, Microsoft Silverlight, Bing Maps, Windows Azure, Visual Studio 2010

United Kingdom Team EyeWorks

Northumbria University, Newcastle College, University of Northumbria

Mobile Intelligent Retinal Analysis is a cloud-based platform that utilizes smartphone technology coupled with a specialist lens attachment used to identify early-stage sight loss in the developing world. It also allows medical experts to check the automated diagnosis and give remote verification.

Windows Phone, Windows Azure

United States

Team FlashFood

Arizona State University

The FlashFood mobile app and website is a food recovery network, powered by text messaging, that reduces waste and feeds the hungry by collecting excess food from restaurants, caterers and conventions and delivering it to nearby community centers.

Windows Phone, Visual Studio 2010

Venezuela Team Arbel Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

Arbel is an interactive virtual whiteboard created to support education. It is operated through a computer, projector, Wii video game controller and an LED pointer and has a corresponding mobile application for students and teachers.

Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows 7, Microsoft Expression, Windows Phone

Vietnam Team GP3S Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry

GP3S is a public warning system that citizens can use to alert authorities to threats and potential environmental risks. Through the smartphone and Web-based applications, authorities receive the information and can address the problem while also giving feedback to the community.

Windows Phone

Game Design: Phone FinalistsCountry Team Name School(s) Project Description Technologies

BrazilTeam Monkey Pepper

Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Bauru

This game tells the story of the Littles, a family that returns from their perfect vacation to be surprised by their careless hometown. As a result, they decide to get their hands dirty and turn the city into a more sustainable place to live.

XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Expression Studio 4, Windows Azure, Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Phone

Czech Republic

Team Wicked Games

Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Information Technology

“Yggdrasil: The Tree of Life” is a real-time strategy simulation that takes place on a small planet with a tall tree called Yggdrasil. On their quest to build a sustainable ecosystem, players learn the principles of natural resources conservation and environmental protection.

XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK, Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010

France Team Ecosia École Supérieur en Informatique Électronique et Infographie

“Ecosia” is a 2-D platform-puzzle game set in the future about environmental topics.

.NET Platform, XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Artistique Bordeaux, Ingésup

France Swifteam Ingésup“Swifty Ball” takes place in a world where waste gathers in landfills without being reused. The waste decides to gather into a ball and to go to the recycling factory, and players have to help this ball get there.

XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Hungary Team Turtle Games

Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Informatikai Kar, Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem

“Rum Run” is an action puzzle game that promotes global partnership and addresses world hunger and poverty through fair trading.

Visual Studio 2010, XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

IndonesiaTeam Org.com Mobile

Bandung Institute of Technology

“Cronus” is a game that tells the story of a man who can travel through time to fix humanity's past mistakes, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The player is given a limited amount of resources and time to complete the mission.

Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Korea Team Gaon Nuri

Soongsil University, Hanyang University, Dongguk University

“Knocking Hope” is an action game tasking the user to build a village around the Millennium Development Goals, which gives the villagers a happier state of life.

Visual Studio 2010, XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Lithuania Team LevelUp Kaunas University of Technology

“Never Future” is a Steampunk-themed, open-world, adventure game about defeating trash monsters and unifying people. The game shows that only together can we achieve what seems to be impossible and that we can do anything with the help of technology.

XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Romania Team AVe Universitatea Al Ioan Cuza Lasi“CITYQUEST” is an action game about raising awareness of osteogenesis imperfecta (a bone disorder) through player actions and social media interaction on Twitter.

XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK, .NET Platform

United States

Team Drexel Dragons

Drexel University

“MathDash” provides a fast-paced, rewarding gameplay experience that reinforces math skills taught to elementary school students. It encourages players to approach problems from a different perspective, giving them an intellectual advantage by teaching them to think outside the box.

Visual Studio 2010, XNA Game Studio, Windows Phone SDK

Game Design: Xbox/Windows Finalists

Country Team Name School Project Description Technologies

Belgium Team Hotfix_Windows

PIH Howest, Howest DAE, Howest Kortrijk, HoWest departement PIH

“Influence” introduces adolescents and young adults to the power of positive action. One little improvement, a helping hand or planting a flower, grows exponentially into a positive wave if people start copying one another's behavior.

XNA Game Studio

Brazil Team Doers Universidade Positivo

The objective of “Do More” is to make players aware that through teamwork, every problem can be solved. This game encourages players to participate in changing the world by giving donations, volunteering their time or even by changing their mindsets.

XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio 2010

China Team Xidianembed_6

Xidian University, 西安电子科技大学

“TaiJi” is a Kinect-based Taiji game that can ease loneliness and enhance wellness for the elderly. It also has components that are reminiscent of Chinese culture, which promotes cultural development and exchange.

Visual Studio 2010, Kinect for Xbox 360

France Team Nano Supinfogame

“Nano” is a game about health in which the player controls a minuscule nanomachine to collect genetic data, symbolized by geometric shapes, on the surface of various pathogens. Players completing a sequence of data receive a medicine, which will destroy pathogens.

XNA Game Studio

Iceland Team RadiantReykjavík University, Reykjavik Multimedia School

Robert's Quest is a side-scrolling platform game about cleaning up the environment. It’s set in the future in which society has lost its connection to nature and relies on an environmentally conscious squirrel, which helps provide cleaner, alternate energy sources.

XNA Game Studio, Microsoft Office 2010

Japan Team Esperanza Vantan Game Academy

Hoping to confront the stark reality that many areas of Japan are still left with scars from the tsunami disaster, this team created “Blue Field,” a real-time strategy game about rebuilding a city after a natural disaster hits.

XNA Game Studio

Japan Team BlossomTrident College of Information Technology

“Bloom*Block” is a 3-D puzzle game about the environment. Players attempt to change the wasteland into a beautiful land filled with flowers and vegetation. XNA Game Studio

Portugal Team Red Phoenix Studios

Universidade da Beira Interior

In “Clean World,” players travel to the future and take on the role of a small robot with the mission of cleaning a polluted world to save Earth. During the game, the player completes several quests and mini-games with an education focus.

XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio 2010

Thailand Team TANG Thai Mahidol University Verdant Fantasy is a multiplayer action game about saving the environment and addressing deforestation.

Windows Azure, XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio 2010

Ukraine Team HammerBird

STEP Computer Academy

InBalance is an isometric strategy game about health and the environment. Players start the game in an area where the environmental balance between man and nature is violated. By completing proposed missions, the players restore the balance between civilization and nature, bit by bit.

XNA Game Studio

IT Challenge Finalists

In the IT Challenge, students were tasked to develop, deploy and maintain IT systems that are efficient, functional, robust and secure. Each competitor needs to demonstrate proficiency in the science of networks, databases and servers, as well as an intimate understanding of how it must all fit together, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Country Participant SchoolEgypt Sherif Talaat Modern Academy — Computer ScienceRomania Alexandru Ticlea Universitatea Romano-Americana BucurestiSingapore Joshua Sim Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT

Kinect Fun Labs Challenge – Sponsored by Microsoft StudiosCountry Team Name School Project Description Technologies

Brazil Team Interlab

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo

Fusion4D is an innovative 3-D user interface that lets users interact with 3-D objects by moving, rotating and scaling models. It also allows users to “explode” objects into smaller parts and navigate to see what they would look like in different stages of evolution.

Kinect Gadget Accelerator Kit, Kinect for Windows SDK, Microsoft Speech Platform SDK

Poland Team Flexify Adam Mickiewicz University

“Reh the Dragon” is a game created with the goal to transform tedious rehabilitation exercises into an interactive adventure for children. Using the Kinect sensor allows children to take part in interesting and simple training exercises and games.

XNA Game Studio, Kinect for Windows SDK

United States

Team Whiteboard Pirates

Clemson University

“Duck Duck Punch” is a low-cost virtual reality rehabilitation game system for upper arm stroke therapy using the Kinect sensor. The game scales to the participant's level of impairment and has been designed with usability in mind, based on feedback from stroke therapists and stroke survivors.

Kinect for Windows SDK, Kinect Gadget Accelerator Kit

Windows Azure Challenge

Country Team Name School Project Description Technologies

Algeria Klein Team

The Higher School of Computer Science, Chlef University, IGEE Mohammed Bouguerra, Hassiba Ben Bouali - Chlef University

DiaLife is a healthcare platform that helps make diabetic patients and their families’ lives easier and simpler by combining the elements of diabetes management into a software solution.

Windows Azure

Brazil Team Virtual Dreams Azure

Escola Politécnica da Universidade of Sal Paulo & Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Eureka! consists of several client apps, a presenter app and a Web service that enables teachers to share interactive lesson plans with other teachers and students.

Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 8, Windows Phone, .NET

Romania Team ComplexUniversitatea Babes-Bolyai, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Seedbit is a Web application stored in the cloud that unites individuals, companies and NGOs in a fun, social way to get them involved in social causes they are passionate about.

Windows Azure, .NET Platform, HTML5, Windows Phone, Windows 7

Windows Metro Style App Challenge – Sponsored by WindowsCountry Team Name School Project Description Technologies

BrazilTeam Virtual Dreams Metro

Escola Politécnica da Universidade of Sal Paulo & Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Eureka! consists of several client apps, a presenter app and a Web service that enables teachers to share interactive lesson plans with other teachers and students.

Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Phone, .NET

Korea Team TokTok

Dongduk Womens University, Sung Kyun Kwan University, KyungHee University, Inha University

Hapeanut is an application that teaches people around the world to grow peanuts more easily to address global hunger.

Visual Studio 11, Express Beta for Windows 8, Bing Maps SDK

Ukraine Team nLife Taurida National V.I.Vernadsky University

By using the application, Solvee, people can rid the world of garbage and keep it clean, thereby improving quality of life. Users can also communicate with one another, access disease statistics and ask for help.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Azure, Windows Phone SDK, Microsoft Expression Studio 4

Windows Phone Challenge – Sponsored by Nokia

Country Team Name School Project Description Technologies

Egypt Team Vivid University of Ain Shams

Health Buzz consists of two main parts: a mobile application that physicians can use to access a patient’s electronic medical records, and a cloud-based storage system that is inexpensive and doesn’t require additional hardware.

Windows Phone SDK, Windows Live SDK, Microsoft Silverlight SDK, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Expression Encoder 4

Finland Team Aaltovation

Aalto University School of Science, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

The Mother Care application helps expectant mothers monitor and care for their child throughout their pregnancy by minimizing risks and cultivating a hub of resources that they can utilize during the various stages of their pregnancy.

Microsoft Expression Encoder 4, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone SDK, Windows Azure

Poland Team Stack Gdansk University of Technology

The ZZ Braille Reader application allows visually handicapped people to read text written in Braille alphabet by using a smartphone.

Windows Phone SDK, Windows Live SDK