New Delhi 7, August 2014: Microsoft India announced that CodeBlue, an Indian team, has bagged second place in the Apps for Office Challenge at the Imagine Cup 2014 Worldwide Finals held in Seattle on July 31, 2014. Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s premier competition for student technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the globe and a cornerstone of the Microsoft YouthSpark initiative. CodeBlue was awarded a cash prize worth $3,000 for their innovative app at the VIP Dinner for Microsoft leadership which was hosted by Steven Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President, Developer Experience & Evangelism (DX) & Chief Evangelist, Microsoft. The award was presented to the team by John Case, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office Division.
Team CodeBlue receive their award from John Case, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office Division
August 06, 2014
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Team CodeBlue, comprising Ankur Bhalla, Jehi Jha, Neha Valecha and Saurabh Kanwar, from Manav Rachna College of Engineering, received the second prize for creating Molecule Maker, an app that provides a library of molecule visualizations in World, Excel and Powerpoint, enabling the representation of molecules visually. CodeBlue’s solution is designed to enhance the presentation of scientific and academic research by providing molecule visualization in 2D and 3D models. The representations can be extensively customized in line with the needs of the project topic before being embedded as an image. For 3D representations, models can be rotated and zoomed into to get a perfect image. This can be used to display a chemical formula, molecular weight, and other formulae and units used in scientific and academic writing, greatly improving documents and presentations for students and lecturers worldwide.
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Challenge Name : Apps for Office Challenge
App: Molecule Maker Position: Second Team name: CodeBlue, India Prize: $3,000 |
Commenting on the Indian team’s success, Joseph Landes, Chief Evangelist, Microsoft
India said, “Through the course of this year’s competition, it has been amazing to see the passion and creativity among young technologists and their enthusiasm to make a tangible change through their ideas. I congratulate Team CodeBlue on emerging winners at the global competition.”
The Apps for Office Challenge was part of the Imagine Cup as a platform for developers to create cloud-hosted web apps that work inside Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and SharePoint. These apps work seamlessly within the installed, desktop versions of Office 2013 and in the Office 365 cloud apps, adding new features, tools, and content to the software used by millions worldwide. Teams of up to four students worldwide were invited to submit short written proposals for their idea earlier this year, and the Microsoft Office team picked the best proposals and worked directly with the chosen teams to develop their web apps.
Over its 12-year history, more than 1.7 million students have competed in Microsoft Imagine Cup. In this year’s World Finals, 34 student teams representing 34 countries competed against each other after winning national and online competitions around the globe. Microsoft awarded cash and other prizes to the winning teams, valued at more than $1 million across the year-long Imagine Cup program.
About Microsoft Imagine Cup
In its 12th year, Microsoft Imagine Cup is the company’s premier technology program and competition providing opportunities for student technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs from all academic backgrounds to collaborate, develop a technology application, create a business plan and gain a keen understanding of what is needed to bring a concept to market. Students can learn more about Imagine Cup by visiting http://www.imaginecup.com. A full list of competition categories is available at https://www.imaginecup.com/Custom/Index/Competitions.
Imagine Cup is focused on providing students with the opportunities, resources and experience to become the brightest young minds worldwide. In addition to skills and training that launch incredible careers, students receive unparalleled hands-on experience, guidance and mentorship from industry luminaries, opening doors to a future as an entrepreneur, innovator and technologist. Each of the first place winners in the competition’s three categories — Games, Innovation and World Citizenship — will receive a “boot camp” experience from Microsoft Ventures, Microsoft YouthSpark or PAX during which they will receive hands-on mentorship and project development support from Microsoft and industry experts.
“New technologies are being created every day and at a rapid pace — many of them by student developers, which is why we’ve invested long term in the Imagine Cup program,” Guggenheimer said. “The World Finalists who came to Seattle this year represent the best of student tech minds, and we are incredibly proud and inspired by all they have accomplished — we look forward to bringing them back to Seattle next year.”
More information about Imagine Cup can be found at www.imaginecup.com
About Microsoft India
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 6,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research and development and customer services and support, across nine Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Microsoft is committed to touching and transforming lives and businesses in India through technology.
