The Imagine Cup team announced an update for Round 2 of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Touch and Tablet Accessibility Award.
The Accessibility Award is designed to challenge teams to create a new education application that uses touch and tablet technology while expanding the possibilities about how a user interacts with the computer. The application should implement accessible technology to empower people with disabilities, temporary difficulties, or anyone with the desire to personalize their user experience. Teams must develop a solution that effectively integrates the use of touch and tablet technology to enable students with disabilities to improve their learning results.
Congratulations to U.S. teams from SUNY-Buffalo, Arizona State University, and University of Washington for ranking among the top ten in worldwide competition.
Award Finalists receive a trip to the Worldwide Finals in Warsaw, Poland from July 3-8, 2010 plus…
•First Prize: $8,000 USD and a Lenovo tablet (ARV $1879 USD)
•Second Prize: $4,000 USD and a Lenovo laptop (ARV $569 USD)
Microsoft Imagine Cup Touch and Tablet Accessibility Award (This is a great source for tips to share with those interested in education software development and competition.)
Thanks, Lora for pointing to this update and for listing the top ten teams in Round 2! Kudos, All, including the MS team organizing this great competition.