Brazilians compete in the US final international tournament … – UOL

• Bruna Souza Cruz / UOL

  

  Brazilians participating in the final of the Imagine Cup 2016 international student technology competition hosted by Microsoft in Seatlle in the uS

Four Brazilians participate during this week end of Imagine Cup 2016, international student technology competition hosted by Microsoft in Seatlle, in the United States.

competing in the “games”, Alessandra Castro, Daniel Sanabria, Erico Grasso and Ramon de Souza will present the digital game “the dream of Jequi” which has as drought background in the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais.

the goal of the team game “Tower Up” is to help the character Jequi to join much water as possible to the Valley.

“I wanted to show the reality of the people of which I am part. Usually, the games require the player to collect gold coins. Our proposed that the player get water, which is the wealth of the backcountry, “said Souza, 34, pedagogue and newly formed digital games from PUC-MG (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais).

Other important point of the project is that in addition to entertain, it has a social concern for encouraging players to donate money for the purchase of tanks for the region.

“the team worked hard [about a year and middle], and the expectation is very high, because our game brings something more than just fun. The game takes the virtual to the real world, “he said.

Imagine Cup 2016

This is the 14th edition of the” World Cup of Technology “company. In all, 35 teams compete for the Innovation awards, world Citizenship and Games.

the competition began on Wednesday (28) and ends on Friday (30). the winners of each category will receive US $ 50,000.

for Kurt Steck, audience and marketing manager platform, the competition is the opportunity students show creativity. “Let your passion guide your ideas,” advised the lovers of technology.

the executive also said that one of the main characteristics of the projects carried out in Latin America is that most of the students try to solve local problems with their solutions. – as is the case of the Brazilian team

To get the issue international, young people had to overcome more than 1,600 students in the Brazilian stage, held earlier this year in Belo Horizonte (MG).

One of the rules of the Imagine Cup 2016 is that participants were enrolled in a educational institution between January 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016. in the case of the Brazilian team, three of the members completed their graduation recently in the course of digital games and one of them is in the final year of information systems.

* the journalist traveled at the invitation Microsoft