Fashion and design win out at Microsoft's Imagine Cup World Championship

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Published on August 4, 2015

published on August 4, 2015

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The Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship is an annual event where tens of thousands of young technology student teams compete against each other throughout the year. The finals of the thirteenth championships started last week, and if you’ve been following along, you’ll remember we reported which teams made the final on Thursday. On Friday, the winning team was chosen, and Satya Nadella crowned Team eFitFashion from Brazil this year’s champions. EFitFashion happened also to be the same team who won in the Innovation category.

Team eFitFashion’s project is called Clothes For Me and is an online marketplace that sells custom clothes for all body types. Clothes for Me does this by generating individual patterns and bringing together seamstresses, customers and clothing firms into one place. Winners of the Imagine Cup, receive a face to face meeting with Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, $50,000 in cash and a boot camp opportunity to help develop their project further.

Other winners include Team IzHard of Russia in the Games category and Team Virtual Dementia Experience of Australia in the World Citizenship category. These teams also received $50,000 in cash and the boot camp opportunity.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.