About the Innovation Accelerator

  • The Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator takes place between 5th and 19th February.

    Six student teams will compete to produce innovative technologies in the field of education. Each team was a finalist at the 2007 Imagine Cup and has been invited to the Accelerator to build new functionality into their winning designs.

    Teams will be encouraged to think about commercial application of their solutions and include BT's next generation telecom services into their software.

    Subscribe to our feed and check back in over the next two and a half weeks to see what we get up to!

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Welcome

February 05, 2008

Getting The Basics

We received the official welcome from the personnel from Microsoft and BT. The innovative accelerator program in the eyes of this Jamaican team sparks new energy, geared at facilitating the energizing of the technological steam engine that has changed all our lives. We were debriefed about the events for the upcoming weeks and we are already steaming with anxiety.

Our expectations are great, between the expert business strategies and wealth of technical experienced being proposed for this event I am sure that the metamorphosis of our software is eminent. We now sit in awe but with great delight as we contemplate this fight. The stage is set, the rules are clear; the winner is anyone’s bet yet with every passing moment victory is near. The intent is clear, these weeks will be filled with exciting innovations and all parties present will have amiable opportunity to make the best of it. We imagined it now we are going to bring it to live. Wish us luck.

February 04, 2008

Welcome to the Imagine Cup Accelerator Blog

Over the next two and a half weeks, 6 student teams will compete at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View to produce innovative technologies in the field of education. Each team was a finalist at the 2007 Imagine Cup in Seoul, South Korea and has been invited to the Accelerator as an opportunity to build new functionality into their winning Imagine Cup entry.

British Telecom is cosponsoring the event with Microsoft and the teams will be encouraged to include BT's next generation telecom services into their solutions.

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and check back in over the next two and a half weeks to see what we get up to!