Alix, Dodo Project, and Urban Studio are the Winners of the 2015 Imagine Cup Indonesia Competition

The Imagine Cup Indonesia 2015 competition event has ended. Now the tenth annual event initiated by Microsoft for students and students has officially had three new champions selected from nine finalists who played in the final. Announced on Thursday night (26/3), precisely at 21.00, Alix, Urban Studio, and Dodo Project will assume the name of Indonesia in the competition. online babies Worldwide Semifinals Imagine Cup 2015 which will be held in April 2015.

Imagine Cup is actually a prestigious global competition event initiated by Microsoft this competition, Microsoft tries to find solutions and innovations that are not only based on technology, but also emphasize the principle of benefiting from the technology for the sake of the environment. In this competition, Microsoft is supported by Telkom which facilitates the competition's technology infrastructure and also USAID as the sponsor World Citizenship category.

According to Microsoft, this competition is quite unique because it is not dominated by one particular university. After the finalists went through the entire process of the Imagine Cup 2015 finals at the national level, both presentations and judging, the jury finally decided the winners for this year's Imagine Cup Indonesia event. Who are they? The following is a complete list of winners in each category.

Category World Citizenship

In the World Citizenship category, the team Alix from the Indonesian Computer University (UNIKOM) Bandung managed to become a champion with the application Solidare or also known as the Assistance for Foster Children (BAA) application they. The Windows Phone-based application can make it easy to donate to orphans and also economically disadvantaged children who are at risk of dropping out of school. As the winner, the Alix team has the right to take home the prize money of 100 million Rupiah.

It can be said, this application acts as a new medium to provide donations in the form of education funds to orphans and underprivileged children by involving various parties. The parties involved in this application include, donors, charities that already have legal legality, the social community/movement of out-of-school children, the community, the government, and also the school which is directly related to the children. The Alix team hopes that through this application they can help reduce the number of children who drop out of school in the world, especially in Indonesia.

Innovation Category

The Innovation category was won by the team Dodo Project which is also a representative of UNIKOM Bandung with Dodo Kids Browser. This application is a good innovation because it can help parents in controlling and supervising their children's activities while playing the internet. So that parents no longer need to worry about the dangers of using the internet when their children surf it. As the winner in the Innovation category, the Dodo Project team is entitled to a cash prize of 50 million rupiah.

There are three interesting features provided by this application, namely Savior, Notifier, and Reportior. Savior can filter and provide child-friendly content. Notifier provides notifications when children open inappropriate content and parents can take action wherever they are. While the Reporter is tasked with providing reports on the activities of internet users carried out by children in the form of tables and graphs.

Games Category

The winner who is entitled to take home 50 million Rupiah in cash in this category is the Urban Studio team. Team Urban Studio is a representative of Trunojoyo Madura University (UTM) Bangkalan. They won this category with the Help Me Up game application they made. Basically Help Me Up is a game with gender Adventure Puzzle which tells the story of a spider mother who wants to feed her hungry child.

In this game, the user will be challenged to bring food from a box dropped by a UFO using a web as efficiently as possible so that the spider mother can return to its nest. User will pass at least 12 training with several different obstacles on each training-his. In addition there is also a Shop feature that can be used to buy some dancing costumes and accessories for the spider character using the coins that have been collected in the game.

Even so, there is still one training which is still in progress, namely training Satur Candy, where players will be taken to a planet that is the final destination of the UFO that is boarded on training 2. The Urban Studio team promises to give a different sensation to the training this.