Lora over at WhatIsNew points to a new project category for the Imagine Cup: Tablet PC accessibility:
“This year the Imagine Cup has a Tablet Accessibility Award with first place prize of $8000, a Tablet PC, and a trip to the Imagine Cup finals in Cairo. The competition already started and first round ends in 21 days. So please help spread the word to interested students!”
Oops! The clock has already started. For what? What’s the goal?
“The object of the Tablet Accessibility Award is to create a new education application that uses Tablet technology while expanding the possibilities about how a user interacts with the computer. The application should reflect the Imagine Cup theme, “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today,” as it relates to the United Nations Millennium Goal of Universal Education.”
And what does a team of Tablet developers win for their efforts?
First Place:
$8,000 USD, to be divided equally among each officially registered member of the Team
A Tablet device (Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC) for each officially registered member of the Team. ARV US $ 1,028,00
A trip for each officially registered member of the Team to Cairo, Egypt to attend the Worldwide Finals. Trip includes round trip coach air travel, standard hotel accommodations and select meals.
Second Place:
$4,000 USD, to be divided equally among each officially registered member of the Team
A Tablet device (Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC) for each officially registered member of the Team. ARV US $ 1,028,00
A trip for each officially registered member of the Team to Cairo, Egypt to attend the Worldwide Finals. Trip includes round trip coach air travel, standard hotel accommodations and select meals
Hmmm. I’m thinking I’d like to be a student again. This Imagine Cup competition is cool.
If you know of some enterprising students that might be interested in developing for the Tablet, pass this link along. They might just be winners!
[…] only I was a student again. The things I could do. So many ideas are popping into my head for the Tablet PC accessibility category for this month’s Imagine Cup competition. In college I tried entering a couple of these types of design competitions. They weren’t for […]