Team Life Saver emerges winner @ Nigeria Imagine Cup’13

Some of the participants at the Imagine Cup 2013

 A winner has emerged at the Imagine Cup contest organized by the Microsoft West Africa in the city of Lagos, alongside Nokia, Main One and Dell Nigeria, by the name Life Saver Team for 2013.

Imagine cup is student competition which centers on the use of imagination, creativity and technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems. 

Members of the team for 2013 were merely from two Nigeria’s foremost tertiary institutions, namely the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTech).

As part of Microsoft’s YouthSpark initiative, Imagine Cup is a way for young entrepreneurs, innovators and developers to have the opportunity to develop an idea, create a product, set a clear business plan and eventually take their product to market. 

All Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalist teams are eligible to apply for Imagine Cup Grants, a three year USD3-million investment by Microsoft to help students turn their ideas into reality.

Microsoft BizSpark, is another YouthSpark initiative, which enables Imagine Cup participants to launch startup businesses in their communities and across the web.

The emergence of Team Life Saver was from a total of 12 teams which competed in Lagos and made up of Afolabi Olamide, Oluwole Michael, Akinlaja Solomon and Adewale Adeyinka, competed in the category of World Citizenship. 

Their solution titled CardioLife is designed to tackle heart attack by monitoring heart reading on the fly via the Microsoft Windows Phone. The solution also provides a rehabilitation programme for stroke patients using the Kinect sensor.

In addition to winning the ticket to the global finals scheduled for St Petersburg, Russia in July 2013, Nokia would be giving each member of Team Life Saver its innovative smartphones, Nokia Lumia 920 devices, while Dell Nigeria would present them with Dell Vestro laptops, just as MainOne provides the Internet access during the challenge.

“We are speechless! To have won the competition – and to have the opportunity to represent our country at the Worldwide Imagine Cup along some of the brightest young minds – is an honour,” said Team Life Saver’s spokesperson, Oluwole Michael.

He added that “we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to compete with students from around the globe who, like us, are passionate about making a difference in the world.”

 

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