If any of you wanted to look at
the Microsoft office in Moscow , there was a good reason to do it! Next Saturday,
March 20, 2010, starting at
12:00, there will be a regional final
of the Imagine Cup program projects competition in the central federal district and a preliminary qualifying round of the embedded systems competition. We invite active students of metropolitan universities to take part in the event as spectators - you will have a chance to see presentations of six student program projects from teams of MSU / UNN, MIPT / MAI, MGUPI, SU HSE, Ryazan University and VGNA MF RF and
8 projects from all over Russia (MEPhI, MGPU, SUSU, UNN, NSU / NGTU / SIBGUTI, KubGTU, MSU, MIPT), based on embedded systems.
To participate in the event, you must leave your name and university in the comments to this note , so that we have at least an approximate list of participants (you can also “register” friends there).
Here is scheduled live broadcast of the event.


Office address: st. Krylatskaya, 17, Bldg. 1 - Krylatsky Hills Business Park. You can get there by a special free bus, which will run between the metro station Krylatskaya and the office from 11:30 to 12:00. From the subway you will have to exit the first car from the center, turn right twice, and look for a bus with a Microsoft sign. If you want to arrive at another time - it can be done by public transport, from metro station Krylatskoe by bus 829, or from metro Molodezhnaya by bus 229, to the stop "Polyclinic". Updates on possible changes in the schedule or place of parking of the bus -
on Twitter .
Event Schedule:
- 12:00 - opening of the competition
- 12:00 - 16:00 - performances of the teams of the competition of software projects (with a break for competitions)
- 16:00 - 16:30 - lunch break
- 16:30 - 18:30 - performance of teams in the Embedded Development competition
- 18:30 - 19:00 - break, jury meeting, audience award
- 19:00 - announcement of the winners
We recommend that all viewers take a
camera with them (for participation in the competition) and a
twitter client (on a computer or phone) in order to be able to comment on what is happening in real time and follow the announcements. Hash tag of the competition Imagine Cup - #imcup, all entries with this tag will be shown on the broadcast page of the event. We will also try to organize a live broadcast of events on
Imagine Cup TV . The official Imagine Cup twitter is
@imcup , a lot of interesting news will also be on
Dmitry Soshnikov’s twitter .