It was a matter of great jubilation for the students and mentors at the Manav Rachna College of Engineering as the Institute bagged the First, Second and Third positions at the National Finale of the Microsoft Imagine Cup for the Innovations Category held at the Microsoft Innovation Centre, Greater Noida.
The first position was bagged by Team Dexters who innovated RespirON.
RespirON provides a great and personalized tool to better understand asthma and help the Asthma Patient and his physician to come up with the best plan on how to manage it thus helping the patient to live a healthy and active life.
Team Pathfinders, scored the second position with MovAid, "MovAid" is world's first personalized solution to measure and monitor the recovery or rehabilitation of any individual after undergoing any orthopedic trauma, surgery, injury or joint replacements.
Team Technoplanet stood at the Third position with Smart Skull which is an automatic alert system that provides alerts for the victim's relatives & emergency numbers in case of accident so that the victim receives emergency medical care in time. Nikhil Dalmia, Saurabh Kanwar, Ankit Sachdeva, Vimish Madaan belong to Team Technoplanet. It also features an audio navigation system as well as wireless calling.
It is noteworthy that of the 10 teams competing in the national finals for the innovation category at The Microsoft Imagine Cup, Five Were from MRCE, out of which Three teams which stood first, second and third at the national finale have made it further to the Semi- Finals to be held in the first week of May 2014.The International Finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup will be held in the last week of July in Seattle.
Microsoft Imagine Cup, which is referred to as the Olympics of Technology, is a platform for young entrepreneurs, developers and innovators to develop and showcase their technology-based new business ideas, create products, put together business plans and even take their products to the markets. This year 60,000 student innovators participated in the competition from 25 Indian states. The three categories wherein innovations are done are The Innovations Category, The World Citizenship Category and The Gaming Category.
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