Microsoft has scattered a mill, in dollars, of course!

Microsoft has announced the winners of one of the world’s most prestigious technology student competitions, the 11th Microsoft Imagine Cup. Young developers and future entrepreneurs took part in the competition with their projects.

After national rounds and online qualifiers, 71 student teams from 87 countries competed in the international final. Microsoft awarded the participating winning teams more than $ 1 million in cash and other prizes in the one-year competition.

This year’s spectrum of winning ideas ranged from a portable - and thus life-saving - due to faster intervention - blood type measuring device to a mobile game built on a nightmare to tourist mobile apps running with playful quizzes and puzzles.

This year's Imagine Cup winners:

Innovation

• First place, $ 50,000: Team Colinked, United Kingdom, project: SoundSYNK
• Second place, $ 10,000: Team DORA, Slovenia, project: DORA
• Third place, $ 5,000: Team MYRA, Thailand, project: SkyPACS

• Game

  • First place, $ 50,000: Team Zeppelin Studio, Austria, project: Schein
  • Second place, $ 10,000: Team Solite Studio, Indonesia, project: Save the Hamsters
  • Third place, $ 5,000: Team Banzai Lightning, France, project: Seed

   

  World Citizenship:

  • First place, $ 50,000: Team for a Better World, Portugal, project: For a Better World
  • Second place, $ 10,000: Team Omni-Hearing Solution, Taiwan, project: Omni-Hearing Solution
  • Third place, $ 5,000: Team Confufish Royale, Australia, project: Foodbank Local

   

  Imagine Cup Challenge winners:

  This year, students were also able to enter the Imagine Cup in three categories with online rounds only. To complete the tasks, they had to create learning or application development projects in Windows Azure, Windows Phone, or Windows 8.

  Windows Azure Challenge:

  • First place, $ 10,000: Team Y-Nots, India, project: Zoik It!
  • Second place, $ 5,000: Team nlife, Ukraine, project: onQuests
  • Third place, $ 3,000: Team LetsGo, China, project: Get & Put

  Windows Phone Challenge:

  • First place, $ 10,000: Team vSoft Studio, Singapore, project: Speak Reminder
  • Second place, $ 5,000: Team WeRule, Poland, project: Modern Drug Test
  • Third place, $ 3,000: Team front, Poland, project: Cope

  Windows 8 Apps Challenge:                                                                                             

  • First place, $ 10,000: Team TeamNameException, Italy, project: Ulixes
  • Second place, $ 5,000: Team Wordsapp, Germany, project: Wordsapp
  • Third place, $ 3,000: Team Clever Mind, Thailand, project: Vocable World

  
  

  Imagine Cup 2014

  In 2014, the Imagine Cup will take place at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.