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MSFT Imagine Cup 2010 Winners Announced

By pete_gallagher

The winners of Microsoft's U.S. 2010 Imagine Cup competition, which centers on the use of technology to help solve the world's toughest problems, have been announced.

 This year's grand prize winner in the Game Design category, as detailed by The Chronicle of Higher Education, was a team from Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC)—which also had one member from the University of North Carolina— that developed a game called Sixth. The title involves a 'child in a developing country who must go through obstacles to meet a need, such as finding clean water.'

The name Sixth 'refers to the one-sixth of the population in developing countries that live in slums.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).