Imagine Cup – MyMouseGames (1st Place National)

MyMouseGames placed First place in the Imagine Cup US Nation final. The imagine Cup is a worldwide software design competition sponsored by Microsoft. Our team – Jimmy, Mark, and Luke Dickinson (brothers) advanced from first round to semi-finals to national finals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our prizes was $8,000 to split among us and to continue on to the Imagine Cup World Finals in Cairo, Egypt.

Our Entry

The theme of the Imagine Cup in 2009 was the 10 world goals of the UN, mostly helping developing countries. Therefore, we chose to focus on education and to build it in Silverlight and ASP.NET. Essentially, our entry was composed of several mini educational games that allow you to have multiple mice on one computer to play. The idea is that one computer can work for many students. In addition, the teachers can change the lesson data that is being used in each game. On top of that, this can be functioned completely through a simple web site. The purpose was to help every student have access to a computer in ill funded schools.

Website: http://mymousegames.com/

Videos: http://mymousegames.com/Videos.aspx

Press Coverage: http://mymousegames.com/press_coverage.aspx

Press Coverage

News – Winning US Imagine Cup

Microsoft Research Center -Cambridge, MA
May 10th, 2009

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