Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011 Winners Declared

Redmond based Microsoft Corp. has declared the winners of the Imagine Cup Grants program which in substance is a three year long $3 million competitive grant program for student innovation as so then as social entrepreneurs.

The software giant made this announcement at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting held at Davos, Switzerland. By offering help to the Imagine Cup competitors the grant program focuses on giving possibility to young innovative minds to create any business or non-profit organisation to shape up as then as share their ideas with the world.

These teams developed various solutions for issues related to health and education, accessibility as so then as already used technologies like Windows Phone, Kinect for Xbox 360, Bing Maps and many more.

The grant offers US $75,000 for each of the above teams along with cloud computing services, software, solution provider support, accessibility to various local resources like Microsoft Research Centers and as well premium Microsoft BizSpark account benefits, reported Daily Disruption.