Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Competition  (Software Design Category)

It was the best of technology and science that saw this year’s Team AlphaWaves garnering the CHAMPIONS in the local finals of the Imagine Cup 2012 – Software Design category.  Their winning project - ‘Dementia Assistance and Recall Engine (DARE)’, utilises Windows 8 and Windows Azure, to create a mobile digital scrapbook that will be used as part of Reminiscence Therapy (RT) to help stimulate recall of memories for dementia patients.  Their innovative application will stimulate recall of past memories through photographs and other media (e.g. sound, video) that can be presented on a PC or tablet to remind the elderly and persons with dementia of their past and who they are.  DARE even deploys an active link to user’s brainwaves to analyze and make sense of their cognitive and mental abilities to help in stimulating their recall capabilities.

This project caught the eyes of many judges during the competition as it had a direct and huge impact on the increasing number of dementia patients in our aging society. 

The team emerged triumphant out from over 85 entries, judged by a panel that includes Managing Director of Microsoft Singapore Jessica Tan, Jeffrey Paine of Golden Gate Ventures (and an adviser to Young Upstarts), Gwendolyn Tan of fellow Singapore-based entrepreneurship site SGEntrepreneurs, and Bernice Ang, founder of Syinc.

As the CHAMPIONS, Team AlphaWaves will travel to Sydney, Australia, this July to represent Singapore in the worldwide finals and showcase their innovation alongside hundreds of other students from around the world. 

The team comprised of the following students from the School of Information Technology and the School of Health Sciences :

• Dip in Information Security - Mong Yunheng
• Dip in Information Security - Koh Kai Wei
• Dip in Engineering Informatics - Zheng Xiang Wen Eustace
• Dip in Occupational Therapy - Nur Nadiah Binte Zailani

Garnering 3rd Runner-Up in the Singapore leg of the Imagine Cup 2012 was also Team Kinecteract from NYP/SIT comprising of (from right) Tan Dai Zhen Joyce, Muhammad Farhan Bin Othman and Ferozd Raisyad B Razhif R. Absent from picture is Kenneth Lee Bozheng.

CONGRATULATIONS to Team AlphaWaves and Team Kinecteract on doing NYP proud again!

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Competition   (IT Challenge Category)

For the second time in a row, SIT students did Singapore and NYP proud at this leading international student technology competition.

Third-year Diploma in Information Security student Mong Yunheng emerged as the second runner-up in the IT Challenge category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Competition. Selected from among the thousands of students who participated in two qualifying rounds, Yunheng represented Singapore in the worldwide finals against five other participants from China, France, Germany, Poland and Romania.

"This year, I took part in the IT Challenge category which allowed me to make use of my knowledge attained in my studies as a final year student in the Diploma in Information Security in NYP. The real-life IT and infrastructure scenarios which we had to solve and develop during the competition spurred my interest as this would eventually be something I would look forward to in my future academic pursuits and career," said Yunheng, 1 of 4 Microsoft Student Partners in NYP.

The finals, held in New York City in July 2011, saw the participants competing in a 24-hour hands-on lab challenge, in which they had to design, set up and implement certain IT infrastructure and systems, utilising the various Microsoft technologies.

Congratulations Yunheng!

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Competition  (Software Design Category)

SIT students have excelled again in Microsoft Imagine Cup (Software Design) 2011 competition. Team Strides Analysts II presented their solution in front of a 400 strong live audience in the final. The innovative and practical solution aims to prevent falls and is targeted for the silver industry.

The team went through two rounds of judging before emerging as the top 4 teams in Singapore. During the final, Team Strides Analysts II clinched the 1st Runner-Up beating teams from NTU, NUS , other Polytechnics and ITE.

Congratulations to our team Strides Analysts II – Adam and Kelvin Tan from Diploma in Engineering Informatics and Diploma in Business Enterprise IT respectively.

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 Competition  (IT Challenge Category)

Competing against 3384 competitors from 84 countries in designing and implementation of IT infrastructure, SIT student Hu Zhengbin from Diploma in Engineering Informatics advanced into the final round of 6 finalists worldwide – the other five from Bolivia, China, Egypt, France and Poland.

Zhengbin pitted against the five competitors in a non-stop 24-hour competition to design, set up and implement Microsoft infrastructure, database, directory, security and collaboration services on “servers in the cloud” on 25 April 2010.

Zhengbin emerged as 2nd runner up world-wide and receive his prize in the Final Awards Ceremony held on 8 July in Warsaw/Poland.

Well Done ZhengBin!

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 Competition

It is with great pleasure that our very own SIT Team EPOCH has clinched the 2nd-Runner Up in this year's Microsoft ImagineCup, a national competition that saw a total of 997 registrations, just in Singapore alone.

From 997 registrations, the team's project was shortlisted into the Semi-Finals and became one of the Top 16. After making 2 stellar presentations, they emerged as one of the Top 4 teams in Singapore.

During final, Team EPOCH has clinched 2nd-Runner Up in all of Singapore AND also became the Singapore's Peoples' Choice Award team, beating all teams from NUS, NTU, the 4 other polytechnics and ITE.

Congratulations to our team EPOCH - Ow Kok Yang, Soh Yida, Ong Rong Hui & Tan Jun Kai from Dip in Business Informatics.

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