Are you a university student in computer science? Do you have ideas for developing programs, apps or projects for the cyber industry? So start already preparing for the contest "Imagine Cup 2013 home final Angola"Which was presented by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) and Microsoft.
In fact the "Imagine Cup 2013 home final Angola”Is like a qualification for Angolan students for the“Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2013”Which is the biggest and most prestigious competition for technology students, bringing innovative students from all corners of the world. This year will be in July in the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Microsoft in official website of the competition announces that for 2013 it will offer more than 300.000 dollars in prizes.
Our qualification will begin on 2 in April, here in Angola and MTC states that it is preparing the announcement of the competition with the objective is to get the largest number of participants at national level, ie students from all other provinces can here come to apply and compete.
Gabriel Luís Miguel, national director of technological development and innovation at MCT, says: "This is the first time in Angola of a local Imagine Cup final, a result of the partnership that MCT has signed with Microsoft and involving several partners, namely institutions of public and private higher education through its areas of information technology ". In turn, António Oliveira, who is the account manager of the largest sponsor, Microsoft, says that "as technological drivers, we decided to involve MCT and universities to take place in Angola this year as well. But the most important thing is to enable young people to spread their technological ideas in a general way and give other people access to these technologies, "he said.
Last year among the various participants we highlighted some African teams such as the Gravity team from Nigeria, which developed a program that facilitates the response time of services during medical, safety or fire emergencies and Egypt's Vivid that even won in the category "Windows Challenge Phone "featuring a Windows Phone app called Health Buzz that gives health care professionals access to medical data and cost-effective cloud-based storage.
Visit the official website of Microsoft's Imagine Cup and see the schedule and prizes for each of the categories.
Via: [Angop e Microsoft's Imagine Cup]
