Imagine Cup: Where Students Use Tech To Solve Real World Problems

Saving the world from hunger, preventing drought, creating speech where there was none; all sound like far-off solutions to existing problems. For the students competing in the Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup, a sort of high tech, geeky science fair, these are issued to be solved right now.

More than 350 students from 75 countries are in Sydney, Australia competing in the Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finals. They're charged with solving some of the worlds most pressing social problems -- hunger, the environment, disease and energy use, among others.

Now in its 10th year, the students use Microsoft's latest technologies as their tools, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Kinect for…
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