El Imag­ine Cup se realizará ahora en Egipto y esta­mos seguros que en las fase pre­vias los chicos de la UNI volverán a arrasar en el Perú y a ganar en la región and­ina. Así que tomen nota y aní­mense a participar:

• ¿Quieres con­tribuir tus tal­en­tos para hacer frente a algunos de los prob­le­mas más difí­ciles que nos enfrenta­mos hoy en día, y tal vez incluso con­ver­tir sus ideas en un nego­cio un día?
• ¿Quieres apren­der nuevas habil­i­dades y la tec­nolo­gia de prueba con­tra los estu­di­antes más bril­lantes del planeta?
• ¿Quieres hacer ami­gos de todo el mundo?
• ¿Quieres la opor­tu­nidad de ganar pre­mios en efec­tivo, pas­an­tías en Microsoft, e incluso un viaje gratis a El Cairo, Egipto el próx­imo verano?

Your First Steps

Get­ting started can some­times be the hard­est step. Fol­low these instruc­tions to get stated com­pet­ing in the Imag­ine Cup!

• Reg­is­ter to sign up to com­pete in one of the cat­e­gories and to gain access our forums e-learning resources. Start here!
• Decide on Which Invi­ta­tion fits your tal­ents and moti­va­tions: Explore the 2009 invi­ta­tion­als and decide on which ones you want to com­pete in!
• Be the best com­peti­tor (and add some new lines to your resume): Microsoft Learn­ing is proud to part­ner with this year’s Imag­ine Cup to help you pre­pare for the 2009 com­pe­ti­tion. With over 25 years of tech­ni­cal train­ing exper­tise, Microsoft Learn­ing pro­vides tools and ser­vices to mas­ter the lat­est prod­ucts and tech­nolo­gies. With our broad range of train­ing prod­ucts and ser­vices, we’re excited to help make your expe­ri­ence with Imag­ine Cup 2009 a great suc­cess — and learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Start learn­ing now!
• Think about the theme! If you are choos­ing a com­pe­ti­tion that requires you to cre­ate a theme-based project (all except for IT Chal­lenge and Robot­ics & Algo­rithms), read about the eight United Nation Mil­len­nium goals and start think­ing about which goal(s) you want to make an impact on.
• Stay con­nected: Sub­scribe to our e-mail newslet­ter when you reg­is­ter. You can also con­fig­ure your Pro­file to accept newsletters.
• Read about what we’re up to and meet our past win­ners in our News and Explore pages.
• Expe­ri­ence the excite­ment of the 2008 World Finals in Paris on Chan­nel 8.
• Visit our forums to start meet­ing other stu­dents like you right away.

Wel­come to the global Imag­ine Cup com­mu­nity. We look for­ward to work­ing hard and play­ing hard–and most of all, to mak­ing the world a bet­ter place!