How we did: we are national champs! That's how we did...
VCU Wins the National Finals in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design Competition
After an hour or so wait, the judges came back with the results of the National Finals...
1st Place: Team PocketDoc (Virginia Commonwealth University)
2nd Place: Emergency Stick (University of Nebraska)
3rd Place: GenkiNet (East Tennessee State University)
WE WON!!! WE WON!!! WE WON!!!
I was beside myself! We (VCU) had gone to the national competition and won the right to compete internationally 2 YEARS IN A ROW!!! My goodness!!! Our students beat out at least 415 other students in the United States (150 total teams) since last Fall to come in first place this year.
To give some perspective on what this will mean internationally in India, look at this table:
Number of students entered from each country
There are tens of thousands of students going for top honors internationally. All of them will know, for the second year in a row, that Virginia Commonwealth University is a force to be reckoned with - full stop!
Of course, Team PocketDoc was ecstatic about their win. These students won $8,000 and the right to represent the United States in August in New Delhi India!
Team PocketDoc receives their check. How will that fit on the airplane?
Our Winners!!!
What a Tremendous Victory!
Moving Forward...
The real work actually starts now. I will continue to work with this team through the summer until their departure to India. I will also continue to keep readers of this blog up-to-date on how the team progresses towards India. Please keep reading and please stay tuned. Also, reflect on just how much of an accomplishment this is for our students and our school. I think it goes without saying that Microsoft is an innovative and influential force in the world of information technology. That we are consistently excelling in their competition - a competition that is exponentially growing outside the United States - speaks volumes concerning the credibility of our students' skills and of the quality of our University.
Thank you for your support.
posted by J.B. at 1:01 AM
5 Comments:
Awesome!!!! So glad I was able to be a part of this as well - Congratulations to the winners and excellent job on all our team's efforts :)
Great Job Teams!
Great job, Jeff!
AWESOME
Thanks for the updates all weekend! We have been plastered to the computer looking for more information while we waited for Will to get home... and our current burning question is: Now that we know how many US teams there were, where were they all from? We want to know who you compteted against!
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