Students put tech to good use in Microsoft's Imagine Cup contest

The Seattle Times Tuesday 24th April, 2012

It looked almost like a scene from an old-time video arcade: teenagers and young adults crowded around computer screens and displays, buzzing excitedly. But instead of "Donkey Kong" or "Pac-Man," students played on-screen shooting games that obliterated diseases, or they waved their arms in front of a Kinect sensor to change the slope of a line on a screen and the math equation that generated the line. It was the U.S. finals of the Imagine Cup,...

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