Sydney: Three Indian teams are among the 12 finalists competing for the top slot in the 'Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia Regional Semifinals'. This has brought them one step closer to winning the grand prize of $100,000 at the World Championship to be held in US. The team bagging first place in the Asia competition will secure $15000 and also a spot in the World Championship to be held later this year at Microsoft Redmond-based headquarters.
The team from Manav Rachna Institute of Research and Studies from Faridabad has developed ‘Caeli’ which is a smartly automated anti pollution and drug delivery mask and is specifically designed for asthmatic and chronic respiratory patients. The team from Vellore Institute of Technology has designed ‘Spot’ which allows you to recognise packaged food and helps in checking whether it contains a certain ingredient or exhibits a certain character. The third team which is from Bengaluru based R.V. College of Engineering has designed ‘RVSAFE’, a one-stop solution for effectively handling any kind of disaster be it natural or manmade.
Over the past 10 years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the “Imagine Cup”.