(Photo credit: Microsoft)

After four days of presentations and product demonstrations, the student team from Ukraine emerged on Tuesday as this year’s Imagine Cup Software Design champion, beating Japan and Portugal to the US$25,000 top prize.

The Ukrainian students tackled communication problems for the hearing impaired with their project “EnableTalk”, where a pair of gloves equipped with various sensors and a microcontroller continuously recognises sign language patterns as they are performed by the wearer. …

(The all-girl team from Oman. Photo credit: Microsoft)

In just one day, 73 teams of Imagine Cup hopefuls in the Software Design category have been whittled down to 20. As these students – including Singapore’s team – proceed to Round 2 of the competition, Techgoondu checks out some of the interesting student projects on display in this flagship category. …