UET wins Microsoft Imagine Cup 2022

UET team was awarded Rs150,000 and $10,000 from Global Microsoft Corporation as seed capital for their startup

PESHAWAR:

The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar team Thursday won the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2022 held on March 29, 2022, last.

For the very first time UET Peshawar has brought this accolade home. The Imagine Cup 2022 was jointly organized by Microsoft and the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad. Microsoft Imagine Cup, regarded as the Olympics of Technology is the world’s premier technology hackathon aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry.

More than 700 teams participated in various competitions. The UET team Reliance with their project Healthcare 360 which is a final year project at Department of Computer Systems Engineering, headed by Raja Ahmed along with team members Ashley Alex Jacob, Syeda Fatima Ashoor and Affifa Zainab Ahmad supervised by Dr Laiq Hassan and Naina Said of DCSE under the leadership of Chairman DCSE Dr Nasir Ahmed competed and got the accolade of Pakistan National winners.

The team represented Pakistan at Global grounds and grabbed 9th position worldwide from regions of Americas, Asia Pacific and India, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The UET team was awarded a prize of Rs150,000 and $10,000 from Global Microsoft Corporation as seed capital for their startup. The closing ceremony was held virtually at HEC auditorium where the winners and runners-up were announced yesterday. Professor Dr Iftikhar Hussain, Vice Chancellor UET Peshawar joined the ceremony via video conferencing and gave a speech on behalf of UET Peshawar fraternity.

He appreciated the effort of the DCES team that led students to bridge the gap between academia and industry.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 8^th, 2022.