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Blog Post: Technology Skills Helping Youth Make the World a Better Place

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Editor’s Note: Today’s young people are tomorrow’s leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators. The continuing acceleration of technology and innovation creates incredible opportunities but it also challenges us to keep up by getting the right skills, education and experiences in order to be prepared for these...

on16 May 2012
Blog Post: Students are creating opportunities for all of us

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Lori Harnick, General Manager, Citizenship & Public Affairs, Microsoft At just 26 years old, Wilson To has a plan to defeat malaria. And he’ll do it with a Windows Phone. It’s an unlikely device for such a feat but it can be done. A student at University of California Davis, To is the team leader...

on23 Apr 2012
Blog Post: Microsoft Imagine Cup and Kodu Cup winners go to the White House

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Earlier today, three outstanding students, David Hayden, Hannah Wyman, and Jacen Sherman – winners of the Microsoft Imagine Cup and Kodu Cup student competitions – participated in the second annual White House Science Fair , hosted by President Barack Obama. David, Hannah and Jacen were among...

on7 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Microsoft Vision Center in Davos

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. The event attracts government, business, academic and nonprofit leaders from around the world who come together to learn, share ideas and engage in debates on the pressing economic and social issues facing countries...

on25 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Announcing the Imagine Cup social entrepreneurs short list

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Today we’re announcing the 15 teams that have made the shortlist for the inaugural Imagine Cup grants program. The program, which is a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program, aims to help Imagine Cup participants take their projects to market as the next step in solving the world’s toughest...

on13 Dec 2011
Blog Post: Supporting social innovation that addresses the world’s toughest problems

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Citizenship and Public Affairs, Microsoft Every year at the Imagine Cup , over 300,000 students from around the world come together to solve some of the world’s toughest problems using technology. The array of issues being addressed at the Imagine Cup each...

on18 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Team Oasys Presents Project Horizon at the United Nations Headquarters

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Team Oasys, a team made up of Mohammad Azzam , Monir Abu-Hilal , Hani Abu-Huwaij from the German Jordanian University , in Jordan, also the third place winners in the Software Design category at Imagine Cup 2011 , recently presented their technology solution at the United Nations headquarters in New...

on12 Oct 2011
Blog Post: What do parents and students think of STEM education?

Microsoft Citizenship Team

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education is vital to solving the world’s toughest social problems; to helping companies create the next breakthrough innovation and to keeping local economies competitive. So how do we encourage more students to study STEM projects? To find out...

on7 Sep 2011
Blog Post: What is STEM and why is it important? #STEMtember

Microsoft Citizenship Team

STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering and math. STEM education is not only critical for preparing our future doctors, researchers, rocket scientists and game designers, it’s becoming more important for every type of job in the workforce. The problem is that most countries in the...

on7 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Fiery dragons and social entrepreneurs tackle asthma

Nathan J Peterson

Kodu Cup grand prize winner Hannah Wyman, 10, meets with winning Imagine Cup team, Team Dragon, at the Student Showcase event at Lincoln Center on July 13, 2011. If you ever get the chance to meet the young Hannah Wyman of Leominster, Massachusetts, you’ll be struck by her shining upbeat personality...

on18 Aug 2011
Blog Post: How we can help students’ social innovation have real world impact?

Akhtar Badshah

Yesterday in New York student teams from over 70 countries celebrated the winners of the 2011 Imagine Cup – a competition that challenges students to use technology to solve the world’s toughest problems . This is the ninth year of the Imagine Cup and the innovation, ingenuity and creativity...

on14 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Students seek to change the world in Time Square

Nathan J Peterson

This morning I walked out of my hotel and headed towards the glistening heart of New York City, Time Square. Upon my arrival at the Marriot Marquis, the first thing that hit me was the bustling atmosphere inside. Students from over 70 countries have come to New York to win this year’s Imagine Cup...

on12 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Imagine students helping schools and nonprofits

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Andrea L. Taylor, director of North America community affairs at Microsoft A unique Community Service Day was held in New York’s Central Park today when nearly 125 Microsoft Imagine Cup finalists from around the world gathered to build and paint bookshelves, signage and planters to benefit local...

on11 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Social entrepreneurs create to help refugees

Nathan J Peterson

Author’s Note: Reporting from the U.S. Imagine Cup finals in April we asked- are social entrepreneurs the new hero es ? The response was overwhelmingly positive so we thought we’d share some more stories of the students preparing for the Imagine Cup worldwide finals in New York this July...

on20 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Ideas – Unleashing Creativity through Competitions

Akhtar Badshah

On May 2 nd as part of MIT's 150 year anniversary celebrations I will be speaking to students who have entered the MIT IDEAS Competition and Global Challenge - which support innovation and entrepreneurship as a public service. This year more than 80 teams have entered ideas that address barriers to well...

on20 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Social Entrepreneurship is the New Hero

Nathan J Peterson

If you were to bing social entrepreneurship what would you find? The first result gives you a definition from Wikipedia "a social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to achieve social change" while the second result...

on19 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Imagining the Possibilities: next generation of innovators visit Redmond

Nathan J Peterson

Earlier this week I decided to skip the usual lunch routine to check out the innovative ideas of some of the nation's brightest students who are looking to change the world at the U.S. finals of the 2011 Imagine Cup which took place this year on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Bill...

on14 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Passion is Overrated: Focus on the 5 Cs for Social Impact instead – Conviction, Capability, Capacity, Commitment and Compassion

Akhtar Badshah

Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with an incredible group of smart, creative students who are here in Redmond competing at the U.S. finals of the Imagine Cup . I shared with them my view that passion is simply not enough to succeed. Every day at least one person tells me about their passion...

on10 Apr 2011
Blog Post: Helping NGOs Crowd-Source Solutions from Students

Akhtar Badshah

The I magine C up is Microsoft’s annual student technology competition that asks students from around the world to combine their creativity and passion for technology to help solve the toughest problems. Personally, it’s one of my favorite events that Microsoft puts on for students. Every...

on22 Nov 2010
Blog Post: Imagine a world…

Tom_Murphy

As I write this post, over 400 students from every corner of the world are competing in Warsaw, Poland at the finals of the 2010 Imagine Cup . Every single one of these students is a winner. Over 325,000 students registered for this year’s competition and through local and regional competitions...

on5 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Vote now to help students solve the world’s toughest problems

Tom_Murphy

Each year hundreds of thousands of students from around the world come together to compete in the Imagine Cup . The competition, which is part of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential initiative, challenges students to use technology and their imagination to solve the world’s toughest problems...

on8 Jun 2010
Blog Post: First Place Imagine Cup Design for Development Award goes to COSMIC!

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This just in from Cairo...a big congratulations to team COSMIC from Universiti Sains Malaysia! At tonight’s Imagine Cup closing ceremony staged in front of the Pyramids, Jasy Liew Suet Yan, Loo Wan Koe, Mathew Phiong Yoon Kheong, Ooi Keng Siang were awarded the 1st place Unlimited Potential...

on7 Jul 2009
Blog Post: Imagine Cup Students Travel to Redmond

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Last week, students participating in the Imagine Cup traveled to Microsoft’s Redmond campus to meet with various Microsoft teams as they prepare for the 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt. Team SKAN from India and Team MultiPoint WEB from the U.S. used the opportunity to network with developers...

on15 Jun 2009
Blog Post: Social Entrepreneurs in the Making

Microsoft Citizenship Team

It is Imagine Cup season! Known as the “Olympics of Technology,” Microsoft Imagine Cup is the preeminent student technology competition in the world. This year, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Finals in Cairo and all trying to solve...

on12 May 2009
Blog Post: Imagine Cup US Finals - People’s Choice (that means YOU!)

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Next week some of the brightest – and youngest – minds in America will compete in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup , Microsoft’s worldwide student technology competition. Fifteen student teams were chosen out of thousands to showcase the technology applications they designed to help...

on27 Apr 2009