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The 2021 Imagine Cup is where passion meets purpose, and student innovators can bring their boldest tech ideas to life to impact our world. This year’s all-digital competition saw thousands of teams developing projects in four categories that aligned with their passions: Earth, Education, Healthcare, or Lifestyle. Students were invited to complete the Microsoft Learn Challenge as the first step in their competition journey and form teams of one to four people to leverage innovative tech, like AI, Power Platform, and Big Data, to develop a project proposal to make a difference.
We are consistently inspired by solutions students create to tackle common issues, and the 2021 competition is advancing with the selection of our World Finalist teams.
2021 prizes
These teams are heading to the next stage of the virtual World Finals to compete for USD10,000, Azure credits, and four spots in the World Championship. Runners-up will win USD2,500 and Azure credits. During the World Finals, teams will pitch their ideas to expert judges, demo their tech, and engage in a question and answer session. Projects will be judged on their innovative use of Azure technology, accessibility and inclusion, and marketability as a business idea.
Meet the World Finalists!
Earth category
Team Green Guru, United States Project: Green Guide | |
Team Intelligent Hives, Poland Project: Intelligent Hives – Bee Monitoring System | |
Team ProTag, New Zealand Project: ProTag | |
Team SimplyLCA, Germany Project: SimplyLCA | |
Team Spiffeng, Singapore Project: IoT Hydroponic System | |
Team Virtual Radiologist, Nepal Project: Pico Sat |
Education category
Team Agent of Change, Japan Project: Ujiyan | |
Team Cafrilearn, Kenya Project: Makini | |
Team Hands-On Labs, United States Project: Hands-On Labs – How can we enable every student to have a truly ‘hands-on’ learning experience’ online? | |
Team JAN/A, Czech Republic Project: KnowledgePicker | |
Team Nyansapo AI, United States Project: Digital Literacy Assessment | |
Team ReadAR, United States Project: TeamAR |
Healthcare category
Team Atheia, United States Project: Atheia | |
Team Breathe Mongolia, Mongolia Project: Sky Watcher | |
Team Cepha, United States Project: Cepha | |
Team Cloud Access, Indonesia Project: CardiWatch | |
Team Flourish, Canada Project: flourish | |
Team Intelli-Sense, India Project: Vision – the Blind Assist | |
Team JBAwesome, Singapore Project: Phychant — Development of Physical Disability and Speech Difficulties Assistant | |
Team K-CPR, Korea Project: K-CPR | |
Team Neural Bionics, United States Project: Neural Bionics | |
Team REWEBA, Kenya Project: REWEBA (Remote Well Baby) | |
Team Sentirech, Mexico Project: Sentirech | |
Team Guardian, United States Project: Guardian: A Novel Deep-Learning Based Fall Detection and Monitoring System for Senior Citizens | |
Team Ubo, Tunisia Project: Ubo |
Lifestyle category
Team Assurance, United States Project: Assurance – Re(Imagine) Safety | |
Team DataMasker, China Project: WellMask | |
Team Detectd, India Project: Detectd- A sophisticated Artificial Intelligence based online Deepfake Detection platform | |
Team EasyGov, United States Project: EasyGov | |
Team En#Plane, Korea Project: HSG : Hate Speech Guard for Children | |
Team INTELLIVOLT, Kenya Project: Power Monitoring System | |
Team Mimibot, Singapore Project: Mimibot | |
Team Roball Go, China Project: Intelligent Visual Inspection Spherical Robot with Active Drive and Recovery | |
Team Threeotech, Thailand Project: JustSigns | |
Team Virtuoso Music, United States Project: Virtuoso-Hyper-realistic AI Musician Using a Novel Multi-resolution Approach with deep convolutional neural networks | |
Team Zephyr Air, United States Project: Zephyr Air |
*Two World Finalist teams from Pakistan still to be announced.
Follow the action
Congratulations to all these incredible young developers for making it this far! Follow their journeys on Instagram and Twitter as they head to the World Finals to pitch their projects.
Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.
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