Microsoft has announced the Content Holmes team from BITS Pilani as the India winners of the 15th edition of the Imagine Cup. The cup is aimed at fostering innovation among students in the country. The Content Holmes team created a one-click AI-based parenting solution that helps keep children secure from cyber-bullying. The team will now represent India at the upcoming worldwide finals to be held in Seattle, USA in July. The winners of the final stand to win $100,000.
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Microsoft India today announced the India winners of Imagine Cup 2017, after concluding the national finals held in New Delhi. Now in its 15th edition, Imagine Cup continues to foster innovation among students in the country and enables them to transform their ambitions into reality. With the vision of a one-click AI-based online parenting solution that helps to keep children secure from cyber-bullying, Content Holmes (BITS Pilani) emerged as the winner among 27 finalist teams from across the country. The team will now represent India at the upcoming worldwide finals in July in Seattle, USA, to compete among global teams for a USD 100,000 prize.
Microsoft Imagine Cup continues to witness strong participation from India, as well as world over. This year, more than 15000 students registered from 1600 schools and colleges across the country. The winning teams showcased their innovative thinking, technical skills and ground-breaking solutions to address everyday challenges.
Imagine Cup 2017 – India Winners
Winner: Content Holmes (BITS Pilani)
This is a one-click AI based online parenting solution that will help keep children secure from cyber bullying and adult content online.
First Runner-up: Mi-amigos (Chameli Group of Institutes)
The application assists and diagnoses the patients of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases. The app hopes to reduce medical expenses and man hours.
Second Runner-up: PocketConfident AI (IIT, Hyderabad)
This team is developing the first ever virtual coach powered by Artifical Intelligence.
Second Runner-up: White Cane (IIT, Kharagpur)
White Cane is a personal assistant for the visually impaired that can help understand and discover the environment to relay information about the surroundings to the user.
Congratulating the winners of this year’s national finals, Narendra Bhandari, General Manager, Developer Experience and Evangelism, Microsoft India, said, “Imagine Cup is all about innovation, transformation and what comes next. This year, we complete 15 years of Imagine Cup and we continue to cultivate a spirit of social and technological entrepreneurship, empowering students to use their creativity to address real societal problems through technology. Participants have shown remarkable effort and enthusiasm to develop cutting-edge technology solutions to help resolve some of the world’s issues and challenges. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering student community and young developers build their skills to realize their true potential and transform their ideas into reality.”
Imagine Cup is one of Microsoft’s many efforts to transform skill development, nurture budding technologists and foster collaborative and innovative spirit. This global technology competition boasts of several success stories emerging from the competition. Last year, Team KudaPehchano developed a real-time garbage management system using machine learning and vision techniques, while Team DIGIY developed an interesting game of suspense and Team AxeJulius built an app to publish ebooks and shared them with the public. After competing and winning the Imagine Cup India 2015 under the World Citizenship Category, Sanket Ghorpade launched his project into a company, Manage Code Cultivate. Based in Mumbai, the company is providing a solution called “Brain Board”, Windows desktop application which helps users to communicate even if he is not able to physically move and verbally challenged.