Southeast Asia, 10 March 2022 — For 20 years, student developers have brought their unique technology solutions to life with Imagine Cup to make a difference in the world around them. Starting with just an idea, students form teams of one to three people and leverage Microsoft technology to develop purpose-driven applications from what they’re most passionate about.
The 2022 Imagine Cup is all about global student innovators building together to make a difference with technology and developing their own skills along the way. This competition year, participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Laos, Sri Lanka were eligible to apply for the Southeast Asia New Markets Regional Finals.
From the hundreds of teams who submitted projects, four teams were chosen to advance to the Imagine Cup World Finals in March 2022. Each team submitted a project proposal document and software for an original technology solution developed in one of the 2022 Imagine Cup’s competition categories: earth, education, health, or lifestyle.
Meet the Top 4 Teams
Team Name: The Alter
Country: Sri Lanka
University/Higher Education Institute: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)
Category: Education
Team Name: Nana Shilpa
Country: Sri Lanka
University/Higher Education Institute: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)
Category: Health
Team Name: ESLE
Country: Sri Lanka
University/Higher Education Institute: University of Peradeniya
Category: Lifestyle
Team Name: Alpha Squad LK
Country: Sri Lanka
University/Higher Education Institute: Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)
Category: Earth
These teams will each take home USD $1,000 cash prize and USD $1,000 Azure Grant to continue developing their projects, receive judge feedback, and automatically advance to the Imagine Cup World Finals.
Top 12 teams from the Southeast Asia New Markets Regional Finals will receive access to a pool of mentors to develop their solution further to increase the marketability of their products supporting it to enter to respective industries as a startup. Congratulations to the winners!
Education Category
- The Alter, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka
- Code_Cracker19, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh
- DH Extreme IT, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka
Health Category
- Nana Shilpa, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka
- MeasureMe, Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
- TeamHeimerdinger, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
Lifestyle Category
- Team ELSE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- Team Exogenous, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
- SmartTravellerLK, National School of Business Management, Sri Lanka
Earth Category
- Alpha Squad LK, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka
- Team Code Clan, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka
- SnakePal, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka
More than 2 million competitors from 163 countries have signed up for Microsoft’s global student technology competition to build something that matters to them, make a difference in their communities, and innovate for impact over the past 20 years.
For more information about Imagine Cup, please visit https://www.imaginecup.com/.
