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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 judgesdemo their tech, and engage in a question and answer sessionProjects 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


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Team Intelligent Hives, Poland


Project: Intelligent Hives – Bee Monitoring System


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Team ProTag, New Zealand


Project: ProTag


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Team SimplyLCA, Germany


Project: SimplyLCA


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Team Spiffeng, Singapore


Project: IoT Hydroponic System


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Team Virtual Radiologist, Nepal


Project: Pico Sat


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Education category






























Team Agent of Change, Japan


Project: Ujiyan


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Team Cafrilearn, Kenya


Project: Makini


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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?


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Team JAN/A, Czech Republic


Project: KnowledgePicker


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Team Nyansapo AI, United States


Project: Digital Literacy Assessment


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Team ReadAR, United States


Project: TeamAR


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Healthcare category


























































Team Atheia, United States


Project: Atheia


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Team Breathe Mongolia, Mongolia


Project: Sky Watcher


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Team Cepha, United States


Project: Cepha


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Team Cloud Access, Indonesia


Project: CardiWatch


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Team Flourish, Canada


Project: flourish


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Team Intelli-Sense, India


Project: Vision – the Blind Assist


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Team JBAwesome, Singapore


Project: Phychant — Development of Physical Disability and Speech Difficulties Assistant


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Team K-CPR, Korea


Project: K-CPR


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Team Neural Bionics, United States


Project: Neural Bionics


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Team REWEBA, Kenya


Project: REWEBA (Remote Well Baby)


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Team Sentirech, Mexico


Project: Sentirech


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Team Guardian, United States


Project: Guardian: A Novel Deep-Learning Based Fall Detection and Monitoring System for Senior Citizens


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Team Ubo, Tunisia


Project: Ubo


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Lifestyle category 


















































Team Assurance, United States


Project: Assurance – Re(Imagine) Safety


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Team DataMasker, China


Project: WellMask


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Team Detectd, India


Project: Detectd- A sophisticated Artificial Intelligence based online Deepfake Detection platform


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Team EasyGov, United States


Project: EasyGov


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Team En#Plane, Korea


Project: HSG : Hate Speech Guard for Children


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Team INTELLIVOLT, Kenya


Project: Power Monitoring System 


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Team Mimibot, Singapore


Project: Mimibot


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Team Roball Go, China


Project: Intelligent Visual Inspection Spherical Robot with Active Drive and Recovery


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Team Threeotech, Thailand


Project: JustSigns


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Team Virtuoso Music, United States


Project: Virtuoso-Hyper-realistic AI Musician Using a Novel Multi-resolution Approach with deep convolutional neural networks


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Team Zephyr Air, United States


Project: Zephyr Air


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*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.