The Chief Mentor of the Team LifeWatch,
representing Nigeria at the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition currently holding
in Seattle, Washington, Adebayo Ogundipe, has boasted that the team will bring
the cup home, ITRealms reports.
“We will win. We will advance to the
final stage tomorrow.The team’s presentation was convincing enough for them to
win. There were positive signals during their session”, hesaid.
Microsoft
Imagine Cup, ITRealms learnt, has been dubbed the world’s premier
technology competition that provides opportunities for students across all
disciplines to team up and use their creativity, passion, and knowledge of
technology to create applications, games and integrated solutions that can
change the way we live, work and play.
In
the press release made available to ITRealms, the team was quoted as saying
that health and gaming solutions topped inventions on showcase at the event
saying there are positive signals that Team LifeWatch would advance to the next
phase of the competition, having taken their turn in presenting their solution
to the panel of judges, ITRealms reports.
The spokesperson of Team LifeWatch,
Raymond Obinaju, said “We are really optimistic about this. And the judge’s
comments seem to be really promising. With AsthmaVisor, Team LifeWatch seeks to
save an estimated 25million people living with asthma in Nigeria, and about
334million people globally. So I think we have a good case.”
The Team LifeWatch, ITRealms learnt, comprised four
students from the AfeBabalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD); AdeyemoOluwaseun,
Kevin Ahwin, Sobola David and Raymond Obinaju.
Speaking after their presentation,
Communications Lead, Microsoft Nigeria, YemiOrimolade stated that the team’s
session was apt, informative, educative, and mind blowing, “I think their
solution is definitely a contender for the converted title.”
Nigeria, China, South Korea,, Nepal,
Netherlands, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Tunisia, Brazil, Canada, Hungary,
Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Cyprus, Germany, Indonesia,
Italy, Mexico, Romania Taiwan, ITRealms reports, are the
countries participating in the global competition in Seattle, Washington
this year.
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