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The Microsoft Imagine Cup is back! Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s annual global student competition where you have a chance to get your tech project on the global stage for the chance to win free travel, cash prizes, networking opportunities, and expert mentorship. Find out more here. Submissions are now open until December 1st, 2019! Looking for a team? Want to improve your idea? Need tips and tricks to submit your best? Join the Microsoft Student Partners at the pre-competition bootcamp to get ready. Register today to save your seat! Event details below. ...

The Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform is a very powerful enterprise cloud. It does many things, from running websites to Virtual Machines to Machine Learning. As a student, you get $100 of Azure credits annually – no credit card required. Additionally, get access to over 25 always free services – including hosting up to 10 websites via the Azure App Service or even the Azure Face API to do facial recognition. We’ll start small for now, showing you how to claim your Azure for Students account and get a website running. ...

What’s one event that brings together the best tech founders in the world, and also allows for picking up of tech trends and tips on growth, marketing, revenue, product, and more? Here’s where: Tech in Asia Singapore 2017. Immerse yourself in 2 full days of inspiring keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakouts, and tons of networking. Learn from entrepreneurs and topic experts who have been there, done that across 5 stages - Main Stage, Developer & Product Stage, Startup 101 Stage, Marketing Stage, and Revenue Stage. Headlining the Main Stage this year include Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit; Min-Liang Tan, CEO of Razer; Quek Siu Rui, CEO of Carousell; Grace Yun Xia, Senior Director of Corporate Strategy from Tencent; Adi Tatarko, CEO of Houzz; Nick Nash, Group President at Garena; Maximilian Bittner, CEO of Lazada, and more! They will join more than 80 other inspiring speakers from around the world. Other highlights include: Bootstrap Alley: An exhibition of the region’s 280 startups across various industries, handpicked by Tech in Asia. Startup-Investor Speed Dating: A valuable opportunity for startups to pitch to 70 participating investors. Roundtables: An avenue for discussions with industry veterans over a variety of topics. Arena: Witness one of the most intense 7-way pitch battle, a staple in every Tech in Asia conference. Whether you’re a founder, wantrepreneur, developer, student, or anyone interested in the tech startup scene and looking to connect with over 4,500 ambitious tech geeks, this is one place you’ll feel just at home! ...

NASA is on a mission to foster innovation through a diversity of perspectives and is encouraging global citizens to come together to solve perplexing problems faced by NASA Scientists on a daily basis. The Space Apps Challenge is one of the largest hackathons in the universe and part of the NASA’s Open Innovation Programme. For 48 hours, passionate innovators and problem solvers from all over the world are welcome to join the Space Apps Challenge, and create solutions that will be part of the next generation of space technology! Take part in the Space Apps Challenge this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, 29-30 April. Prototype your solution, consult with expert mentors, pitch to a panel of judges, and stand to win a chance to represent Singapore! ...

 As Singapore embraces a digital economy and looks towards achieving our vision of becoming a Smart Nation by 2025, at the centre of it all is our people. In our continuous effort to nurture a new generation of digitally fluent citizens with a computational thinking mindset through our Code for Change efforts, and aligning this with the newly announced Digital Readiness Programme Office within the Ministry of Communications and Information, Microsoft and the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) inked a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) to launch and collaborate on a 2-year Digital Maker Programme (DMP). The DMP was officially launched by Minister for Communications and Information, Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, during his Ministry’s workplan seminar held at the Furama Riverfront Hotel on April 13, 2017. The DMP aims to increase STEM awareness and uptake in Singapore, nurture a new generation of digitally fluent citizens, imbued with a Computational Thinking mindset and giving people the ability to be digital creators and makers. This will allow Singapore to cultivate a community of innovators with the culture of collaboration, co-creation and empowered real-world problem solving using Microsoft’s technology. Over the next 2 years, the programme will introduce making and creating with technology using an entry-level codable microcontroller known as the micro:bit to inspire students and adults to explore the possibilities of digital making. The micro:bit was first launched in the United Kingdom (UK) to all Year 7/8 and S1 students in March 2016 (News reference here). To find out more about the programme, you can refer to the following featured news articles: ...

Team HeartSound from Nanyang Polytechnic Crowned Champions at the Microsoft Imagine Cup Singapore 2017 Having demonstrated their idea to bring a better and more accurate pre-diagnosis solution to patients who experience abnormal heart rhythms, they will now be flying to Manila, Philippines to compete in the SEA Imagine Cup 2017. SINGAPORE, 10 April 2017 - Microsoft Singapore today crowned Team HeartSound from Nanyang Polytechnic as the Singapore champions of Microsoft Imagine Cup Singapore 2017. This year’s Imagine Cup saw over 65 project entries from the different tertiary institutions with solutions and applications ranging from virtual wardrobes, smart plant indoor growing and medical solutions to aid doctors. 2017 marks the 15th year which Imagine Cup has been running. Imagine Cup is an annual competition which inspires the youths of today to think out of the box and to develop solutions to solve problems on a world scale. As the winners of the Imagine Cup Singapore Finals, the team from Nanyang Polytechnic will be flying to Manila, Philippines at the end of this month to take part in the South East Asian Imagine Cup 2017 in collaboration with the 30th ASEAN Summit. Here are some words from the winning team! Team HeartSound - “Humility and good attitude played a huge part in our team’s success.” ...

[caption id=“attachment_23190” align=“alignnone” width=“3000”] Microsoft Student Partners Singapore[/caption] We are proud to announce the recruitment for Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) Singapore 2017! Join thousands of students all around the world who are passionate for technology and keen to learn new things! Every day, in more than 100 countries around the world, thousands of MSPs share their deep knowledge and passion for technology with their fellow students. They master the latest technical content provided by Microsoft Imagine and share what they learn, building leadership and communication skills along with technical expertise. By being a part of the Microsoft Student Partners, you will be the forefront & ambassador of Microsoft technologies in your campus. If you have what it takes and would like to be a part of the Microsoft Student Partners, please remember to submit your application to us before the deadline! Recruitment for MSP Singapore 2017 opens from 10 12 April 2017, 12:00PM to 30 April 2017, 23:59PM. ...

Inaugural Startup Career Fair held at the jtc LaunchPad@one-north, for startups to source for and hire talents Over 80 startup companies offering 200 full-time, part-time and internship positions More than 1000 participants expected (Entrepreneurs, PMETs, graduates and students) Why Join? A one stop platform for high potential technology-based startups to attract and recruit talent To meet Students and PMETs who are seeking job and internship placements To promote career opportunities in your startup Programme: 4.00pm : Launch of Career Fair 4.30pm - 6.30pm : Series of workshops (20–30 mins each) 5pm : Guided Tour of LaunchPad (Session 1) 6.30pm : Guided Tour of LaunchPad (Session 2) 8.00pm : End of Event Sign Up for Booth at https://www.eventnook.com/event/startupcareerfair2017booth

The Microsoft Student Partners (Singapore) recently collaborated with the National University of Singapore (NUS) in organising the Azurenaut Weekend @ NUS Hackathon, over the weekend of January 13-14, 2017. This hackathon targeted the use of Microsoft Azure as well as to increase awareness about our student initiatives such as the Imagine Cup, Microsoft Imagine as well as the Microsoft Student Partners. We kicked off the two-day event with an inspirational keynote by our special guest, Mr. Justin Garrett (Group Manager, Student Developer Evangelism, Microsoft), on the possibilities of Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Cognitive Services as well as Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK). During Day 1 of the event, we held workshops at The Hangar in NUS Enterprise where Ms. Alyssa Ong (Technical Evangelist, Microsoft APAC), conducted a hands-on session on Microsoft Cognitive Services and Bot Framework. We are proud to be one of the first few countries to demo CNTK on an Azure N-Series virtual machine. During Day 2 of the event, we began the hackathon at Microsoft Singapore where the theme was: “Using your creativity, passion and knowledge of technology, build a solution that uses Microsoft Azure to shape how we live, work and play“. To kick-start the hackathon, Mr. Ujjwal Kumar (Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore), introduced the participants to Microsoft Blockchain-as-a-Service on the Azure Platform. Participants were given the day to utilize Microsoft Azure, and generate fresh and innovative solutions for everyday problems. After an intense day of hackathon, students created great ideas and innovative solutions with four teams standing out from the competition: 1st Prize: Team ScudTasks with their winning chatbot called “Greenbot” which helps individuals to identify recyclable materials via image recognition, and provide tips for recycling and suggestions for recycling centers. 2nd Prize: Team Fokus with their application that monitors user activities and prompts users to focus on their tasks whenever it detects that the users are idling and using non-work related applications such as social media sites. 3rd Prize: Team Dabaobot with a social chatbot that helps students to organize their lunch orders while generating revenue with their takeout services. Special Mention: Azure Holographic Team received a special mention due to their technical brilliance and ambitious idea at using Microsoft HoloLens with the Unity framework to visualize Azure resources. The hackathon and workshops were a huge success with over 88 participants comprising of undergraduates and polytechnic students from a cross section of NUS faculties, other universities as well as polytechnics across Singapore. More importantly, we were able to excite the community about Microsoft Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, with the winning team’s solution being a chat bot built using the Bot Framework. Special thanks to NUS Enterprise and Microsoft Student Partners Singapore for their great support in making this event a huge success!

Dear Institutions, A sincere thank you to all who have submitted their proposals for the Imagine Cup 2017. You have successfully completed your first milestone! The submissions were incredible, and narrowing the field was next to impossible for our judges. But after much discussion and deliberation, we’ve now selected the 16 Semifinalists who’ll advance to the next round. Without further ado, here are the 16 Semifinalists! (in no particular order) Congratulations to those moving on and thanks again to everyone who threw their hat in the ring. You knocked our socks off! Next steps for Semifinalists. An email with the details will be sent to you on the Semifinals. Do keep a look out for it in your mailbox. Do follow us on Spiffy.sg | Spiffy Facebook, or check the Imagine Cup 2017 website news page for updates. Thanks Lilian Quek together with team – Chun Siong Tan | Kyzer Wong