The Russian finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 took place in Moscow. Ten student projects based on Microsoft technologies participated. I stumbled upon the last one by chance, but this time I registered in advance because it’s both interesting and educational 🙂

001 - Contest for creating tiles for Win Phone from Lego
002 - troll wall
003 - juicy laptop from SONY
004 - final testing of the robo car
005 - Darth Vader sold out for cookies!
006 - Kinect Star Wars. An interesting smash-up. A monster on the screen mimics your movements and destroys enemies and the city. The trick is that it mimics ANY movements!
007 - Chewbacca... or Djigurda?
008 - Giving out gifts to those who are already leaving
009 - scientific toilet at Digital October 🙂
010 - Darth Vader approves
011 - official opening
012 - official opening. Oleg Alekseev, Skolkovo
013 - official opening. Nikolay Komlev, APKIT
014 - official opening
015 - official opening. Alexander Potapov
016 - official opening. Denis Milov
017 - official opening
018 - SPbPU team, optical vision system for the blind
019 - such 'devices' are so nervous nowadays...
020 - Using Kinect, the system detects obstacles and warns the person with a voice
021 - The device tried to recognize a familiar girl but failed 🙂
022 - But it recognized the pedestrian crossing sign perfectly, even with a partial image
023 - Cheburator from the MIPT-MSU team
023 - This is how the Cheburator sees a child
025 - Child Monitor project. Emotion recognition through facial expressions
026 - ISU team, Kiwi project
027 - Kiwi project improves mood
028 - LaserCraft from MIEM-HSE and MAI, playing war games on stage
029 - LaserCraft - an alternative to Q-Zar
030 - trollface during breaks between presentations
031 - Workshops on creating apps for Windows Phone were held in adjacent rooms
032 - Workshops were well-attended
033 - Explaining the device and principles of Microsoft Kinect
034 - Tiles for the contest, who will win?
035 - SSTU team, mobile robot-sapper system
036 - Bonjour Development team (composed of TUSUR and IPPI RAS)
037 - Bonjour presented a project for diagnosing laryngeal diseases via Windows Phone 7 client and cloud service.
038 - SUSU team (Chelyabinsk), Mother Health project
039 - Another team from Chelyabinsk is getting ready
040 - SmartPipes project reduces water loss from leaks
041 - Waterman team with the Smart Pipes project
042 - The prototype system allows flexible control of water pressure in the supply system
043 - TPU and TSU team presented a Kinect project to help children learn the alphabet in an interactive way
044 - Using hand movements, you need to draw the letter A
045 - Opening speech before the awards ceremony
046 - First prizes for those who played Kinect Star Wars best
047 - More prizes from Nokia for playing one of their games
048 - MARIO!!! won the tile contest
049 - Prize for 'Spiders,' the best game on Windows Phone
050 - This year there were unexpectedly many prizes
051 - Even Soshnikov received a certificate 🙂
052 - Everyone got antivirus software from Kaspersky Lab
053 - Tomsk team was awarded phones based on online voting results
054 - Sony rewarded LaserCraft with players
055 - Denis Milov from AskCap hands out a certificate
056 - The certificate went to Bomjour Development
057 - Alexey Nikolaev from Intel highlighted the optical vision work for the blind
058 - Prizes from ABBYY
059 - Awarded to Kiwi
060 - Waterman received NOKIA phones for the gaming aspect of their project
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063 - Stars were awarded again
064 - Prize for the creative contest among the online audience - a trip to Australia
065 - The most intense moment, Dmitry Soshnikov announces the third place
066 - And third place goes to...
067 - Third place goes to Tomsk for their Kinect-based children's literacy project
068 - Second place goes to Cheburator (Child Monitor) from MSU and MIPT
069 - The winner will be announced now!
070 - First place and a trip to the international finals in Australia goes to Bonjour Development
071 - Happy winners