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EMEA Regional Finalists
Every year, students create inspiring tech projects that tackle some of the world's biggest social, environmental, and health challenges. We’re looking for the next big thing and we know students like you are going to make it. Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s premier international competition for young developers, is your chance to show off your biggest, boldest solution. Here are the EMEA Imagine Cup 2020 finalists who will be all competing for a place in the Imagine Cup World Wide Finals.
Meet the EMEA Finalists
Ukraine
Allez: Allez helps coaches further train their athletes. Allez provides motivation through achievements and goals, performance metrics, and overall progress tracking. At the end of each training session, athletes are asked to evaluate their sessions. Evaluations are important to help express the athlete's feelings with their coach.
ALOIS
Sweden
ALOIS: ALOIS is a social bot designed to treat depression and free the user from negative thought patterns. ALOIS can determine the user's emotional state and assist in finding the cause of their depression.
Casie
Switzerland
Casie: Casie uses emotion tracing to identify the level of understanding of any learning material. Lectures can be emotionally traced to identify which students may need help understanding the topic.
Kenya
WEEDING BOT: WEEDING BOT is an automated robot using artificial intelligence to identify and remove weeds from rows of crops.
meCare
Russia
meCare: meCare is a hardware and software solution designed for doctors and home users to detect skin cancer. It can provide identification of the tumor and make recommendations for further action.
Monica
Poland
Monica: Monica is an assistant designed for visually impaired people. A camera is attached to the user's glasses and paired to a microcontroller and their phone. When the user has a request, they may do so through their voice without the need to physically access their phone or manage apps.
RedWalls
Tunisia
I-Remember: I-Remember is a mobile application designed for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers. The patient interface includes task reminders, live facial recognition, labelled photos, emergency location and call assistance, as well as memory games to help evaluate and train the user's memory. The caregiver interface provides the same, but with supervisor features.
Pakistan finalist
Pakistan
The results of the 2020 Pakistan National Final have not been announced.
Vhysio
United Kingdom
Vhysio: Vhysio is a web application utilizing tensorflow.js, a cutting-edge browser-based Machine Learning library, to enable accessible physiotherapy for the visually impaired. Vhysio provides real-time feedback by speaking through exercises and responding to the user's posture.
Team Wild Eye
Kenya
WildEye_KE: Wild Eye_KE brings technology to the wild by monitoring and tracking animal activities. Wild Eye_KE will notify authorities if animals move away from the wildlife protected areas in an effort to reduce poaching and human interaction.
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