Archive for July, 2009

România wins 2 Oscars @ Imagine Cup 2009 in Egypt

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

After years of participation, Romania finally marks the first prize in Software Design. It’s a great day for Sytech team from Iasi and for their mentor. Cosmin Ilie won the IT section with the highest score ever.

Congratulations to the team members, their mentors and the Microsoft Romania people who put their hearts and minds into it.

I hope this will be an impulse for others, I hope Sytech and Cosmin will share their winning tips and I want to see many others asking them how they did it. It must be repeatable!

More details on:

Imagine Cup official site
Valy Greavu’s Live Text Transmission :)
Dan Iancu’s blog

Imagine Cup 2009, Egypt – Romania is in the game

Monday, July 6th, 2009

A while ago I blogged about the experience of being a member of the jury for the Software Design section of Imagine Cup in Romania. Sytech, the team that represents Romania in the Egypt finals prepared for us a nice present during last weekend. They qualified in the top 6, world wide. That’s the best result all-time for a Romanian team in this (section of the) competition. Congratulations!

Of course, as always, Valy Greavu has deep coverage, so follow his blog for details: http://itboard.ro/blogs/valys_blog/archive/2009/07/04/finala-imagine-cup-2009-it-challenge-live-text.aspx (Valy, thank you for being there and sharing)

Also, vote for the Romanian team here: http://peopleschoice.imaginecup.com/default.aspx (ignore the runtime error and come back later if you really want to vote).