Microsoft Imagine Cup 2016: Team Axe Julius from India makes it to World Finals

Microsoft announced the list of 35 teams that will go to Seattle to compete for the Imagine Cup 2016 after making in the World finals. The world finals for Imagine Cup 2016 will be held from July 26 to July 29, 2016. Microsoft Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft and it is aimed at bringing young thinkers who can conceptualise ideas and code them.

The Imagine Cup consists of five competitions including the software design competition and four challenges. The challenges are updated every year and all competitors have to create projects that go by the theme of the competition “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems”. Every year young developers bring in amazing ideas to the competition and never cease to amaze with their inspiring and creative ideas as they attempt to help the world solve it’s toughest problems.

Axe Julius, a team from India, winners of the Innovation Category at the National Finals held in April 2016 has made it to the World Finals.The team includes Adish Jain,Akshay Kumar Gupta, Akshit Sharma and Garv Jasuja. Their project aims to revolutionise the way eBooks are distributed which benefits both the publishers and the reader.

The competition began with local, regional and online contests followed by a screening of best projects from each country bringing about 150 top teams to World Semifinals.During the World semifinals, they were judged by a global panel of MVPs (Microsoft Valued Partners), industry experts and Microsoft staff. In the finals, each team stands a chance to win $50,000, Imagine Cup and a grand prize of a private mentoring session with Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO.