Imagine Cup 2011 Malaysia Finals Results
Apart from the top three winners, there are four additional awards for the participating teams, namely the Innovations Award, the Phone 7 Mobile Development Award, the Azure Cloud Computing Award, and the Presentation Superstars Award. Also not to forget, the Merit Awards for the three teams who didn’t get through the top 6 round.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you the Imagine Cup 2011 Malaysia awards winners.
The Innovations Award: Team Cyber Knightz of UCTI.
The Phone 7 Mobile Development Award: Team V-Real of TAR College.
The Azure Cloud Computing Award: Team RGBY of UKM.
The Presentation Superstars Award: Team Asia Science of UCTI.
Merit Awards (three teams: Excalibur of UTM, KCast of KDU, and RGBY of UKM)
The 2nd Runner-up: Team Asia Science of UCTI
The 1st Runner-up: Team Filius Educata of UCTI.
Last, but not least, the Imagine Cup 2011 Malaysia Finals CHAMPION…
Team Cyber Knightz of UCTI.
They bring home RM 10,000 cash and they will proudly represent Malaysia at the Imagine Cup 2011 world finals in New York this July!
It’s gonna be lagend-wait for it-dary!!
For more updates on the Imagine Cup 2011, do check out the blogs of Samantha, Victoria, Jackie and Wei Wen too! :)
Imagine Cup 2011 Malaysia Day Two
If Day One was interesting, Day Two is awesome!
The second day of the Imagine Cup is the actual competition day. It kicked off as early as 9am with a panel of 9-person judge checking out presentations of all 30 hopeful teams before finalising the top six teams to proceed for the next round.
Augmented Reality Story Book, from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya.
It’s the day the teams were looking forward to – to show the judges what they’ve got and to be the best amongst the rest. The place was crowded and very much alive throughout the presentation session. The judges were divided into three groups as they were presented with different types of ideas and innovations by the participants.
The presentations went quite well as judges were startled by some really amazing imaginations of the lads.
Take for example, the Asia Science team from UCTI,
Asia Science, UCTI.
..who have created the Power Transmission Automation – an enterprise system that manages transmission of power in power substations. The system introduces a different way of power transmission which could simplify and make the management of power substation more affordable.
Sounds really good – so good that I think Japan should TOTALLY check it out. I mean, it works with nuke plants, do they?
Following are some pictures that I’ve taken when other teams were presenting their awesome to-come-true imaginations:
I guess it must be stressful for the contestants – first, you’ve got to come out with an idea (or should I say you gotta imagine big), then you’ll make your imagination (idea) a reality. Hmm.. If I could, I would create a device that produces water through chemical reaction of the sunlight and something. Then, we could mass produce it and distribute them to the people or victims suffering in poorer countries.
That way, they wouldn’t die thirsty, no? Oh no- I think the water should be replaced with some liquid that keeps one full, not hungry. Yeah, but wait, that liquid is more like chemistry or.. I don’t know, nutrition science?
Too complicated, too complicated – guess that’s why I’ll never join the Imagine Cup; cos I think I’ll be better off playing with shutter speed, aperture, and ISO :P
Never mind me, Team RGBY (picture above) of University Kebangsaan Malaysia has got pretty good idea nevertheless. I have no idea if RGBY stands for Red Green Blue and Yellow, but their Project Hive is about a web application that cuts short waiting time for any particular services.
They were inspired by the current queue management systems in hospitals that very often crowd the patients into a common room. It poses more health threat for the already sickened patients. Hmm, that’s no wonder why many don’t like to go the hospital, no?
The system they imagine aims to ‘reduce the number of people waiting in common waiting area and reduce the waiting time of the customers’. Simple idea that could very help us in our daily lives which many have overseen.
Before the presention even ended, the event got noisier (in a good way, of course) with the visits from several secondary schools in Kuching. Throughout the guided tour, the local students had the opportunity to learn more about the Imagine Cup, and more importantly, to see and to acknowledge the awesome ideas of the participating teams.
Who knows one day, they could be in the future Imagine Cup finals!
The results were released during lunch time and the top 6 teams were:
Filius Educata from University College of Technology and Innovation
Excalibur from University Teknologi Malaysia
Asia Science from University College of Technology and Innovation
KCast from Kolej Damansara Utama
Cyber Knightz from University College of Technology and Innovation
RGBY from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (told ya the idea was awesome!)
At the time of posting, the teams have already gone through the second round presentations, which were conducted behind closed-doors since 2.30pm. I had to miss out the fun of watching the suspense and the tenseness of the participants to write this post lol!
Anyway, fingers crossed for the teams as the results of the final six could be announced anytime before the Grand Dinner at the Pullman Hotel with the attendance of Minister of Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), YB Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
The final three teams will be presenting during the Grand Dinner – and the winners will be representing Malaysia at the Imagine Cup 2011 world finals in New York this July.
To wrap up this post, I hereby attach an image of the wall of photos taken during the Imagine Cup 2011. All the images were taken by Jackie and I, and were printed by the Microsoft Student Partners who were there.
For more updates on the Imagine Cup 2011, do check out the blogs of Samantha, Victoria, Jackie and Wei Wen too! :)
If you thirst for live updates, follow me on Twitter or you could search and follow updates of #ImagineCup.
Imagine Cup Malaysia 2011 Finals at Pullman Kuching (Day One)
I’m in Kenny Sia‘s hometown now as the official blogger for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Malaysia finals, which happens from May 4th-6th.
Upon arrival, we (as in the bloggers) were transferred to the Grand Margherita Hotel in the heart of Kuching. Earlier in the morning, we were late for the flight and ran from the departure gate all the way to the plane, which was parked at the end of the corridor.
Ironically, the flight was further delayed because apparently they messed up the cargo or something.
The hotel room is very nice and comfortable, and it even comes with an LCD tele! With ESPN! *grins*
We were given a bag each that contained our tag, a Tourism Sarawak green woven bag, an Imagine Cup polo tee, and the Imagine Cup prospectus.
Anyway, at noon we walked to the Pullman Hotel which is about five minutes walk away to check out the Imagine Cup 2011 preparation works. Of course before that, we had our lunch first.
Lunch was good but not the spaghetti.
Clockwise from top left: Samantha & Victoria, CJ, Samantha, Wei Wen
Team YHA from Multimedia University Cyberjaya.
Today is the day where the participants arrive and set up their booths for their presentation on the following day. There are a total of 30 teams competing in this final and only ONE team will make it to represent Malaysia in the world final this July.
That explains why nothing much happened today as the teams were busy preparing their booths while we toured around taking pictures and watching them work.
Highlight of the day came in the evening – the Welcoming BBQ Dinner, which was at the Grand Margherita Hotel.
The dinner was attended by ‘big guns from upstairs’. Among them were:
Mr Azli Jamil, the GM of Microsoft Malaysia;
Prof Datuk Dr Ahmad Yusoff bin Hassan, the Chairman of Imagine Cup Malaysia 2011 Organising Committee, who’s also the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka;
and last, but certainly not the least,
the Minister At The Sarawak Chief Minister’s Office, YB Datin Hajah Fatimah bt. Abdullah.
All three of the VIPs welcomed all the participants as well as the media representatives in their respective speeches before the BBQ dinner started. YB also wished the teams good luck for the Imagine Cup. Before ending her speech, YB sung a verse of local poem which drew loud applause from the crowd.
Following are some pictures that I’ve taken during the BBQ dinner.
Team IMGS from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia posing with their university’s flag together with (standing from left at the back) Mr Azli Jamil, YB Datin Hajah Fatimah and Prof Datuk Dr Ahmad Yusoff.
Just before the dinner ended, all the teams were given a small trophy each by YB before she was presented with a flower basket as a token of appreciation by the organisers.
That marked the end of Day One. On the following day, the teams will be assessed from both booth presentation and closed-room presentation. At night, there’ll be a grand dinner at Pullman Hotel where the award presentation ceremony will take place.
The ceremony will be officiated by YB Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, the Minister of Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). Do check out Wei Wen, Samantha, Victoria and Jackie‘s blogs too for more updates on the Imagine Cup Malaysia 2011! :)
Hello Kuching!!
Never have I imagined myself stepping on the soils of Sarawak this soon.
However, courtesy of Microsoft Malaysia, here I am in Kuching (for the first time in my life!!) for the Imagine Cup Malaysia 2011 finals.
This is a short post cos I’m just trying out the WordPress app I’ve just installed few days ago. Anyway, I’ll be updating a lot more on the ongoing Malaysia chapter of Imagine Cup 2011 finals alongside with fellow bloggers Jackie, Victoria, Samantha and Wei Wen.