During his opening remarks at the first annual White House Science Fair, President Obama said, "If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you're a young person and you produce the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement, too." Among those in attendance were some finalists from this year's Imagine Cup and that statement is as true to them as it is for others presenting at the Science Fair.
Earlier this summer, I had the privilege of attending the Imagine Cup finals in Warsaw, Poland. If there were an Olympics for software design, the Imagine Cup is it. And while there, I saw some amazing software and technology developed by high school and college teams from all over the world, including a few teams from the United States.
Two of those teams were represented by individual members at the White House Science Fair and demonstrated their projects. BeastWare, a high school team from Advanced Technology Academy in Las Vegas showed off their Windows Phone 7 game, Droid Assault, which had won the Windows Phone 7 Rockstar Award. Another team, Mobilife, from the University of California, Davis, demonstrated their mobile application which assists in diagnosing vascular diseases in children.
Be sure to check out the entire post at the Imagine Cup blog as well as consider registering your own team to get involved for the 2011 Imagine Cup. You too may find yourself honored at next year's White House Science Fair.
