The winners of Microsoft’s U.S. 2010 Imagine Cup competition, which centers on the use of technology to help solve the world’s toughest problems, have been announced.
This year’s grand prize winner in the Game Design category, as detailed by The Chronicle of Higher Education, was a team from Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC)—which also had one member from the University of North Carolina— that developed a game called Sixth. The title involves a “child in a developing country who must go through obstacles to meet a need, such as finding clean water.”
The name Sixth “refers to the one-sixth of the population in developing countries that live in slums.”
First Prize went to a Yale University team Coffee Powered Altruism, who developed a strategy game which “seeks to show the power of applying humanitarian intervention by tasking participants with tackling development issues of a country or region.”
Second prize was awarded to team Ifrit Salsa from the University of Houston. Their game, Robo Recycler, “revolves around a series of robots whose purpose is to help reduce the earth's pollution problem by recycling.”
Third prize also went to a team from the University of Houston, one named Team LeveL13. No information on their project was given or found.
The Grand Prize winner received $8,000 to split among team members, while First Prize was awarded $4,000 and Second Prize $3,000.
