VESIT  Students First Runners at

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 National Finals

amongst 85000 students across India

From Left To Right -Team Inferno in Blue, Team RSS in White,Mr Moorthy Uppaluri GM, DPE, Microsoft India, G Mahadhavan Nair former chairman ISRO

The National Level finals of one of the best technology competition amongst students, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010, held at Bengaluru  just got concluded. The competition showcased some amazing & innovative solutions by 20 years old from across India.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now in its eighth year, Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 saw more than 85,000 Indian students from colleges across the country register for the competition this year. Microsoft Imagine Cup is a technology competition to encourage young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Open to students around the world, Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense.Imagine Cup is a year-long activity open to students across the globe. The competition begins with local, regional and online contests,
followed by screening of best projects.  The contest spans a year where winners go on to attend the global finals held in a different location every year.  The intensity of the work brings students together, and motivates the competitors to give it their all. The bonds formed here often last well beyond the competition itself. More than 85,000 students from colleges across India registered for the competition this year, of which five teams competed in the India finals. They had to provide solutions to problems identified by the United Nations in its Millennium Development Goals. Out of these, after a series of shortlists, the top five teams remained to compete for the first prize and the honor of representing the country. These five teams showcased their software solutions using the latest Microsoft Technologies in front of an eminent panel of judges, a mix of academicians and industry representatives, with Team Invisible Ideas finally being chosen as the best. Team RSS, comprising of Sailesh L, Roma K and Sneha L from VES Institute of Technology, Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra with their innovative projects were judged as the first runners-up.

 

 

First Runner-Up Team RSS from VESIT Chembur, at the Imagine Cup 2010 National Finals

 

 

What TEAM RSS Showcased – With 70% Indian population residing in the rural areas and parallel statistics in other developing and underdeveloped nations, current health services leave the village population helpless with their troubles owing to their availability at longer distances from homes, slow nature, improper management and unaffordable costs. Team RSS, Roma Kalani, Shailesh Lohia, Sneha Ledwani from VESIT, Chembur, Mumbai University have come up with a unique application. The application aims to provide immediate, affordable and local medical assistance to the needy and poor, using portable medical devices, a few essential parameters and service virtualization. They have tried to build an Integrated and Interconnected Primary Health Services Units’ (PHSU) System for a nation, flanked by the concept of Service Virtualization – a new paradigm in the offering of domain specific services seamlessly. These PHSUs are basically kiosks bearing portable/wearable planned medical equipments and provided with strong communication services to ensure medical information is transmitted effectively wherever needed. The solution envisages providing primary health services to the people of a country, especially living in the interiors, with effective delivery of assistance, standard diagnostic facilities and timely delivery of treatment using technology. Primary health centers can be setup across the state, each of such unit equipped with basic health facilities and manned by trained manpower (paramedical personnel). These units will offer a few basic facilities (like primary medicine, diagnostics etc.) to patients in need. The complex collection of software services ensures a seamless offering of a host of services from affiliate members to ensure that  medical attention is catered to the needy in an end-to-end manner.

 

 

Felicitating the winners, G Madhavan Nair, former ISRO Chairman, said, “Youngsters have a high level of competence and are ready to take up challenges of any level.”  Congratulating all the finalists on having made it to the shortlist from the thousands that registered, Moorthy Uppaluri, General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India, said, "The participants this year came up with path-breaking innovative technological solutions to help solve world's toughest problem. This is truly a celebration of great minds producing great work. The winning technological solutions aims at simplifying solutions to the real requirements and .is reflective of innovative thoughts, minds and action. Commenting on the initiative, Dr B K Shukla, Scientist G, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, said, "I strongly feel that this is a very useful mechanism to tap imaginative talent of young minds. To fuel innovations we must inspire and attract more and more young students to participate in events like Imagine Cup." Supreeth S of Team Invisible Ideas, Chennai, Tamil Nadu emerged as a winner at the India finals of Imagine Cup 2010, and their team will now represent India at the world finals in Warsaw, Poland, in July this year.