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Microsoft Launches More Expansive Imagine Cup 2013

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Eleventh year features new categories and bigger cash prizes to inspire more young developers and entrepreneurs around the globe

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 29, 2012 — Students ages 16 and older can now register for Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013, the world’s premier student technology competition, in its 11th year. To inspire more students and encourage a wider variety of aspiring innovators to participate, Microsoft Corp. has redesigned Imagine Cup around three new core competitions — World Citizenship, Games and Innovation — and more than doubled the prize money to US$300,000. (more…)

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Tech Student Projects Already Changing World

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A student team from Russia will take technology that is already monitoring the health of a national park to the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July.

REDMOND, Wash. — Two months ago, fish started dying in the rivers and streams of Russia’s Zyratkyl National Park. Perplexed park officials wanted to know why, so they turned to a new water monitoring system called Polarvision. (more…)

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