Competitors in the Imagine Cup have never ceased to amaze with their innovative solutions, and the 20th anniversary of our global student technology competition is no exception.
Out of the tens of thousands of students from over 160 countries who registered for the 2022 Imagine Cup, 48 teams advanced to the World Finals. Last week, they had the opportunity to showcase their original tech innovations to World Finalist judges through a 3-minute pitch and a question and answer session. Each of the solutions tackled a local or global issue in its competition category--Earth, Education, Healthcare, or Lifestyle--and was assessed based on its use of Azure technology, accessibility and inclusion, marketability as a business idea, and its potential for making an impact.
The expert judges had the unenviable task of determining 12 winners from these 48 worthy competitors. They reviewed and evaluated all of the diverse, innovative solutions and identified a winning team in each of the four categories within each region—Americas, Asia, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). These 12 teams are each awarded USD2500 and USD2500 in Azure credits and are undeniably winners in their own right given their accomplishments in the 2022 Imagine Cup. Congratulations to these incredible students for making it this far!
The top scoring team in each of the three regions wins an additional USD2500 cash and USD2500 in Azure credits and will now advance to the 2022 World Championship in May for the chance to win the grand prize of USD100,000 and a mentoring session with Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella!
Meet the teams and find out more about their amazing projects below.
Top 3 winners advancing to the World Championship
These remarkable teams will be moving on to compete at the highest level of the 2022 Imagine Cup:
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AMERICAS WINNER
Melodic, United States Project: Melodic
Melodic is an integrated system providing speech therapy service via hardware and software. By leveraging the system-oriented hardware and Microsoft Azure cloud-native application, it helps children with hearing impairments receive professional speech therapy at a low cost.
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ASIA WINNER
Nana Shilpa, Sri Lanka Project: Nana Shilpa
Nana Shilpa is a mobile application system developed for screening and refinement of dyscalculia and dysgraphia learning disabilities in primary school students using the Sinhala language. |
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EMEA WINNER
V Bionic, Saudi Arabia Project: ExoHeal
ExoHeal combines robotics and neuroscience to help hand paralyzed patients recover 30% faster. The affordable device and app utilize neuroplasticity and Azure technology to retrain the brain by providing adaptive and gamified rehabilitation exercises.
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Congratulations, and good luck preparing for the World Championship :trophy: next month!
Meet the 12 category winners
Here are the remarkable teams who won their categories within their regions.
Americas winners
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Earth category
Maji, United States Project: Maji—Water Security
Maji is a novel mobile application combined with an optional sensor that determines the real-time water quality in one’s home by using Azure machine learning and building a big database of water quality data to decrease adverse health consequences. |
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Education category
KAPI, United States Project: KAPI
The purpose of KAPI is to translate sign language into Python code, specifically for Machine Learning applications. It aims to remove the need for keyboards and allows people to sign their code using only a webcam.
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Health category
Melodic, United States Project: Melodic
Melodic is an integrated system providing speech therapy service via hardware and software. By leveraging the system-oriented hardware and Microsoft Azure cloud-native application, helps children with hearing impairments receive professional speech therapy at a low cost.
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Lifestyle category
Waveform, United States Project: SoundScape
SoundScape is the first assistive listening device to separate, localize, and classify multiple sound sources simultaneously. It has the potential to protect 466 million people with hearing loss worldwide.
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Asia winners
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Earth category
Three Stooges and One Master, China Project: Broiler Health Monitoring Method Based on Sound Signal and Machine Learning
This system monitors the health of chickens by collecting audio sound signals then analyzing and filtering them. It then forms a data set and creates a visualization platform to display the health monitoring. The prediction accuracy for detection of illnesses is 98.97%.
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Education category
Laze Project Team, Japan Project: Laze - A New Way to Learn Programming
Laze is a programming language that can be written in any language and executed effortlessly, making the early stages of learning programming easier for students, especially in non-English speaking countries.
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Health category
Nana Shilpa, Sri Lanka Project: Nana Shilpa Nana Shilpa is a mobile application system developed for screening and refinement of dyscalculia and dysgraphia learning disabilities in primary school students using the Sinhala language. |
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Lifestyle category
Sign2Sign, Singapore Project: Sign2Sign
This is a hands-on and interactive sign language learning app for people to learn signing vocabularies and practice them in conversations.
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Europe, Middle East, and Africa winners:
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Earth category
Sayari, Kenya Project: Ideal Monitoring System
In order to reduce post-harvest losses and maximize yields for farmers, the Ideal Monitoring System aims to ensure ideal conditions for the safe storage and transportation of produce in transit and in stores.
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Education category
Manuscrito, Romania Project: Manuscrito
This is a mobile app for tablets where kids can learn how to write in an interactive way.
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Health category
V Bionic, Saudi Arabia Project: ExoHeal
ExoHeal combines robotics and neuroscience to help hand paralyzed patients recover 30% faster. The affordable device and app utilize neuroplasticity and Azure technology to retrain the brain by providing adaptive and gamified rehabilitation exercises.
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Lifestyle category
Omega GIKI, Pakistan Project: Mind Braille
Mind Braille is a complete and inclusive brain-computer interface (BCI) package that allows differently-abled individuals to use the power of their minds to perform routine smartphone activities and connect to the Internet.
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Follow the action
Congratulations to all these incredible young developers, and thank you, all Imagine Cup competitors, for your passion, dedication, and innovation!
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