March 26th, 2010 | 
Author: Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup software and game development contest is gearing up, and the company has selected 20 U.S. finalists. The teams were selected from a pool of 14,000 high school and college students who entered the competition. Students across America are competing in the Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition hosted annually by Microsoft Corp. The public is invited to learn more about the U.S. finalist teams, view videos about their innovations, and vote for their favorite Software Design idea at http://www.imaginecup.us/peopleschoice.aspx.
More than 14,000 high-school and college students throughout the country registered for the competition, and 20 student teams were chosen to participate in the Imagine Cup 2010 U.S.
The U.S. Imagine Cup finalists include the following:
Software Design U.S. Finalists
| • | CDSS-AI, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| • | Coders Inc., Illinois Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| • | Extraplaid, Utah State University |
| • | LifeCode, Wayne State University |
| • | MangoBunnies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, DePauw University |
| • | MedRx, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| • | Mobilife, University of California, Davis |
| • | Mogollar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| • | Team Blob, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
| • | Tesla Project, San Jose State University |
Game Design U.S. Finalists
| • | AwesomeSauce, Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts |
| • | Coffee Powered Altruism, Yale University |
| • | Cosmopolis, University of Southern California |
| • | Darkwing Duck, Golden West College |
| • | Fortran and C, University of California, Los Angeles |
| • | Ifrit Salsa, University of Houston |
| • | LeveL13, University of Houston |
| • | Red Team, Springbrook High School, Maryland |
| • | Team Name Not Found, Arizona State University, Tempe |
| • | To Be Announced, Central Piedmont Community College |
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