Details of the Imagine Cup 2012 Student Competition - Student Pack

1. The idea is
everything
Dream it. Build it. Live it.

2. Your Ideas, Visions, Since Imagine Cup began in 2003, more than one million students from
more than 180 countries have signed up. When you join the Imagine
Innovations Can Cup community, you’ll be able to communicate with students from all
over the world to share ideas, have fun, and be there when the ‘Next Big
Change The World Thing’ is unveiled, thats if you arent the one unveiling it!
The Next Game Changing Idea Could Come Imagine Cup:
From You: Can You Be the Next Gates Or Zuck?
With software, the idea is everything. But do you think you have the next big
Students over the years have managed to come up with some of the
idea?
most innovative and ingenious ideas, becoming the necessities in
our lives since the moment they were invented. From a PC on every
Over the last decades, the way we live and work has been changed forever
desk, to one ex-Harvard students now billion dollar business in scoial
by student startups. Without the fancy offices , millions in venture capital, or
networking we’ve seen students re-invent the technology landscape.
thousands of staff, students have still been able to find their way from the halls
Students clearly have always been the pioneers of creativity and
to the board room with nothing but passion, creativity, and that one big idea.
innovation, and here is your chance to follow on in your predecessors
footsteps! The Imagine Cup gives you this change to bring your
With your inspiration, visions, passion, you can be that next talented student
entreprenurial spirit and your great ideas, to create the next big thing,
that brings their ideas to life.
so dont miss out!
Imagine Cup:
If You Can Dream it, They You Can Build it
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is the world’s most prestigious student
technology competition, bringing together student innovators from all
over the world. For students with a big idea, the Imagine Cup is a fun
and rewarding way to show it off. With Microsoft resources and support,
tomorrow’s innovators can bring their ideas to life, and win a wide
range of prizes from up to $50,000, to a trip to St Petersberg!
Sign up at imaginecup.com

3. Games Innovation
Competition Competition
Games Competition Innovation Competition
If you’re all about having fun, and you’ve got game—literally. If you Ready to break some new ground? If your life mantra is ‘why not?’
have an idea for an addictive gaming experience that could transform then come join the Imagine Cup Innovation Competition, and show
how we play, enter Imagine Cup and make it happen! us what you can do!
Be fearless: Use the Microsoft platform to change up an existing Use your entreprenurial charm and dev skills, along with Microsoft
genre, craft a unique play scenario, or deliver a killer UI. Let your skills tools and technologies, to design a totally new app experience. From
in design, artistic direction, and story and character development run the concept to functionality to interface, you run the show. You’ll
wild. architect, design, develop, and test your app—and create something
that could change people’s lives!
Take the first step, and you never know what could happen. For all
you know you could be the creator of the next gaing phenomenon... What can you build that is better, faster, and smarter than anything
The future of gaming is in your hands! else on the market? Let the Imagine cup turn those genious ideas into
a reality!
Sign up at imaginecup.com Sign up at imaginecup.com

4. World Citizenship Windows Azure
Competition Challenge
World Citizenship Competition Azure Challenge
If your goal is to make the world a better place through technology, Get this: Forrester Research says that the global market for cloud
this is the competition for you! The Imagine Cup World Citizenship computing is going to be $241 billion by 2020. With the Windows
Competition recognizes software apps that have the greatest Azure cloud platform, you can build and deploy apps using any
potential to improve the world we live in. operating system, language, or tool. And you can do it fast.
The key to success in the World Citizenship Competition is impact. The sky’s the limit: Use Windows Azure to build a cloud-based
What global challenge can you help solve with technology? Got an app that can turn the market on its ear. It (and you) could be the
idea for an app that will help reduce world hunger, provide better technology industry’s Next Big Thing.
treatment for disease, or raise awareness of environmental issues?
Make it happen!
If you think your big idea has the potential to benefit those in need,
it’s time to get to work. Join the Imagine Cup World Citizenship
Competition and start making an impact right now!
Sign up at imaginecup.com

5. Windows 8 App Windows Phone
Challenge Challenge
Windows 8 App Challenge Windows Phone Challenge
Does your big idea have style? Windows 8 is coming, and with an Windows Phone is way more than just a mobile OS. Giving one-touch
all-new touch interface, it’s going to take computing to a whole new access to the people, entertainment, and information we care about,
place. Apps are the center of the Windows 8 experience, and great Windows Phone has become a lifestyle.
apps start with great ideas like yours.
If your big idea needs to get into the hands of millions of users
When you join Imagine Cup, you can be one of the first to create an worldwide, create a Windows Phone app. You can deliver innovative
app for the new Windows 8 platform. With your creativity, you can functionality that enables new ways to connect, buy, play, and learn—
build an app that delivers an innovative experience that will blow all wrapped in the outstanding Windows Phone user experience.
users away.
Sign up at imaginecup.com Sign up at imaginecup.com

6. Dream it. Build it. The Game Change Starts Here
Live it. Are you ready to take your idea to the next level? Getting involved with
Imagine Cup is easy:
1. Take the challenge
Sign up at ImagineCup.com and select the competitions you want to
take on.
What’s In It For you?
2. Rally a team
1. Looks great on your CV’s- What better way to show you are amongst some of Recruit the smartest classmates you know to participate with you.
the most innovative and clever-minded students in the country than to enter
this competition? 3. Bring your idea to life
Develop a new and innovative way to use technology. Then make it
2. A chance to work with some great Companies, Mentors and Sponsors- This a reality.
competition has the prospects to further your future career. It could turn out
that a mentor from one of our partners or sponsors gives you your next big 4. Compete to win
internship or job! Advance through each round for chances to win travel and cash prizes
3. A chance to work directly with Microsoft- high-potential teams (at Microsoft’s
discretion) will have the opportunity to work with Microsoft for the duration Join the Competition
of the competition to develop your app commercially and technically. You will
gain help in furthering your idea, even if you don’t win! Games Competition
4. A chance to develop your idea into an real business- with the help of the Innovation Competition
Microsoft Team, you’ll have access to free software through Dreamspark, and
even further may get access to BizSpark, enabling you to turn that idea into a
World Citizenship Competition
successful business.
5. Money- a chance to win up to $50,000, enabling you to kick-start a new
Azure Challenge
business and the opportunity, should you make it through to the worldwide
finals in St. Petersburg, Russia, to get an Imagine Cup grant of $100,000 to Windows 8 App Challenge
develop your project further.
Windows Phone Challenge
WIN A TRIP TO THE IMAGINE CUP WORLDWIDE FINALS IN
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA!

7. The World’s Premier Student
Technology Competition
Your Future
Starts Here
imaginecup.com