{"id":107409,"date":"2020-01-16T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=435915"},"modified":"2020-01-16T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:51:15","slug":"meet-the-2020-imagine-cup-finalists-from-our-europe-middle-east-and-africa-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/meet-the-2020-imagine-cup-finalists-from-our-europe-middle-east-and-africa-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 2020 Imagine Cup finalists from our Europe, Middle East and Africa region"},"content":{"rendered":"

For young developers with a vision for improving our world with technology, the Imagine Cup is the place to be. Students are challenged to form teams of one to three people and leverage innovative tech, like AI, to develop a project proposal and business idea to make a difference. We are consistently inspired by solutions students create to tackle social good issues, and the collaborative and innovative core of the competition is continuing with the selection of our 2020 Europe, Middle East, and Africa Regional Finalists.<\/p>\n

These 10 teams will be traveling to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in March to compete for over USD20,000 total in prizing, Azure credits, plus the top two will win spots to advance to the 2020 Imagine Cup World Championship! During their Regional Final journey, teams will also have the chance to participate in an Entrepreneurship Day from the U.S. Department of Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST<\/a>) to refine their business pitches, receive mentorship from Microsoft experts, and experience cutting-edge technical innovation at Microsoft Ignite the Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Introducing our EMEA finalist teams heading to Amsterdam!<\/p>\n

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Allez<\/a>, <\/strong>Ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n

Allez:<\/strong> Allez support personal development through sports experience. The team’s aim isn\u2019t just to maximize the performance of an athlete, but to help coaches to growth individuals who are mentally ready to fight obstacles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ALOIS<\/strong>, Sweden<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

ALOIS:<\/strong> <\/span>ALOIS aims to revolutionize the treatment of depression worldwide and to free more people from their negative thought patterns. ALOIS is a social bot, which determines the user’s emotional state and finds the actual causes of the depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Casie<\/strong>, Switzerland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Casie:<\/strong> The team’s project is aimed at using facial keypoints as a parameter to track the sequence of emotions displayed by user and using an LSTM RNN in order to infer problems with learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Knights<\/strong><\/a>, Kenya<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

WEEDING BOT:<\/strong> <\/span>Weeding bot is an automated robot that maneuvers between crop rows as it weeds interrow and intra row weeds using artificial intelligence and a camera as a sensor, equipped with a robotic arm coupled with a gripper and plough-like weeding tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

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meCare<\/strong>, Russia <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

meCare:<\/strong> The team are developing a solution for primary screening of malignant skin lesions at home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Monica<\/strong>, Poland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Monica:<\/strong> <\/span>Monica is a visual assistant for blind people that is integrated into smart glasses and responds to users requests via voice commands.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RedWalls<\/strong>, Tunisia<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I-Remember: <\/strong><\/em>I-Remember is a two part mobile application designed for the well being of the both the Alzheimer\u2019s patient and their caregivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vhysio<\/strong>, United Kingdom<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Vhysio:<\/strong> <\/span>Vhysio is a machine learning web app utilising tensorflow.js, a cutting edge browser based Machine Learning library, to enable accessible physiotherapy for the Visually Impaired – talking through exercises by responding to users’ postures in real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Team Wild Eye<\/strong>, Kenya<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

WildEye_KE:<\/strong> <\/span>Wild Eye_KE seeks to bring technology to the wild to monitor & track animal activities & notify authorities in case animals stray away from the wildlife protected areas (WPAs), reducing poaching & human interaction with wild animals away from WPAs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Team to be announced<\/strong>, Pakistan<\/i><\/p>\n

The results of the 2020 Pakistan National Final have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all finalists! Check out our recently announced Asia Regional Finalists<\/a> to learn about more innovative projects in this year\u2019s competition and get inspired. Stay tuned for the announcement of our last group of finalist teams from the Americas next month and follow the competition journey on Instagram<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> as students head to their in-person regional events to compete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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