Microsoft’s Imagine Cup World Finalists Announced – List Includes Ugandan Team

Microsoft last week announced the 35 Finalists teams who will travel to Seattle, Washington, USA to compete at the Imagine Cup World Finals, July 29 through August 2. These students will compete in three categories, Innovation, Games, and World Citizenship for a chance to win $50,000 USD plus a boot camp-style experience designed to really move their projects forward.Innovation, Games, and World Citizenship winning teams will receive hands-on mentorship and project development support from Microsoft and industry experts within Microsoft Ventures, Microsoft YouthSpark and PAX.

This marks the 12^th year of Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology program and competition! Now under a global spotlight, students participating in the World Finals have proven they are the best of the best, beating out at least 150 teams from around the globe. While proving their project has what it takes to be the ultimate winner, students will have the opportunity to network with their peers and the judges, and learn valuable technical and business skills to help prepare them for their future careers, all while getting the chance to win cash and prizes totaling more than $1 million.

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At the World Finals Championship Ceremony on August 1, finalists will face judges including, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, Code.org Co-Founder, Hadi Partovi, and Reddit General Manager, Erik Martin.

Representing Uganda, this year is AfriGal Tech from Makerere University . The all-girls team developed mDex –  a mobile sickle cell diagnosis tool comprising a windows phone app and external compound lens.

mDex uses computer vision and pattern recognition to diagnose the disease. Diagnosis is done locally on the phone and results stored in the cloud.

Here’s the full list of the 2014 World finalists:

Games

Innovation

World Citizenship