The winners have been announced after a week of intense competition among finalists chosen from more then 65,000 students from over 100 countries.
Software Design
1st place: Italy. Even .ctor: Giorgio Sardo, Massimo Paternoster, Silvia Perrone and Andrea Sossich
2nd place: Brazil. Team Trivial: Carlos Eduardo Monteiro Rodrigues, Ivan Cordeiro Cardim and Madson Menezes Costa
3rd place: Norway. Team NTNU, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gøran Hansen, Hans Olav Norheim and Jonas Follesø
Algorithm
1st place: Poland. Piotr Marek Mikulski
2nd place: Poland. Przemysław Dębiak
3rd place: Poland. Tomasz Blajek
IT
1st place: Austria. Andreas Tomek
2nd place: Romania. Valerica Greavu-Serban
3rd place: France. Daniel Boteanu
Short Film
1st place: Canada. Team Forest: Sam Chow, Nick Haffie-Emslie, Ryan Marr and Meg Majewski
2nd place: Poland. Team Skylined: Jacek Barcikowski and Julia Górniewicz
3rd place: USA. Team LCL: Scott Lynch, Zach Lynch and Cam Crosson
Interface Design
1st place: Brazil. Team Virtual Dreams: Roberto Sonnino and Eduardo Sonnino
2nd Place: China. Team Frontfree Studio-MISG: Wang Guojing and Sang Yingshuo
3rd place: India. Team Avengers: Mohit Bhargava and Mitushi Jain
Project Hoshimi (Programming Battle)
1st place: France. Team Atomnium: Manon Gaucher and Flavien Charlon
2nd place: Republic of Serbia. Team R.A.F: Igor Kabiljo and Uroš Rajkovic
3rd place: France. Team Lya: Laure Portet and Régis Hanol
The Imagine Cup is inspiring a new generation of technology leaders to apply their imagination and skills to make a difference in the world. The Innovation Accelerator works to make this happen in a very tangible way by providing students with the business training they need to take the first step into entrepreneurship. - Sanjay Parthasarathy, VP of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft.