mLab Team Won the First Place at Imagine Cup Armenia 2012!
04.05.2012
Imagine Cup Armenia 2012 announced the national winners at the Awards Ceremony in Golden Tulip Hotel on May 2, 2012. Mr. Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Science, as well as a number of ICT, private sector, educational and non-government organizations’ representatives were present at the event.
Seven finalist teams pitched their innovative technology ideas to the grand jury comprised of leading technology and business professionals in Armenia. In result of deliberation, the jury selected the three winners of the competition, respectively:
1st award: mLab team with its drinking water quality test project, which allows every mobile user to check the quality of drinking water, retrive statistical data on the level of pollution, and make the data available to other users worldwide.
2nd award: The Insanely Great Team for its anti-counterfeit system suggesting that producers include a secret code in the label of the product to allow a two-step verification of the product by the buyer.
3rd award: RAU team offering a Windows phone application which will identify the dangerous additives in food products and provide information to the buyer.
All winners received significant monetary and prize awards from organizers and sponsors of the competition. The first award winner mLab team will represent Armenia in the international Imagine Cup Contest which will take place in Sydney, Australia, in July 2012.
Imagine Cup is the largest annual technology competition in the world focused around Microsoft technology. The competition covers 183 countries and regions in the world and brings together talented and innovative youth to identify new approaches in IT, and to develop new programming solutions and packages to tackle the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, diseases, pollution, hunger, etc.
Imagine Cup Armenia is held since 2006. This year the competition reported the highest number of applications standing out for innovative, creative and high-quality solutions. Imagine Cup Armenia 2012 is implemented through collaborative efforts of Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia, Microsoft RA, USAID EDMC and EIF.
