Brazil won on Thursday (28) 3rd place in the category “Games” Imagine Cup 2016 international student technology competition held by Microsoft in Seattle, in the United States. The Brazilian team, named “Tower Up”, competed with nine other teams and takes $ 5000 as prize.
Alessandra Castro, Daniel Sanabria, Erico Grasso and Ramon de Souza presented to jurors the game digital “the dream of Jequi” which has as its backdrop the drought in the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais.
“the feeling is very good. Stick with the 3rd best game in the world is amazing. now the ‘Dream Jequi’ can not die. This step can open doors for the project, “Grasso said, just graduated in digital games from PUC-MG (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais).
even before the winning teams were announced, the Brazilian team already attracted curious glances. Dressed in green and yellow, the members sang the battle cry “Jequi, Jequi, Jequi.”
“The data have been released. Now it’s time to have fun,” joked Daniel Sanabria minutes before knowing that his team had won one of the prizes. Despite the animation, nervousness and anxiety were visible on the faces of each member.
In the end, came the relief and sense of accomplishment.
“This is an opportunity to all have a real impact in the world, “said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “Look within you and find your passions, which make them up in the morning and think about how it can help solve problems [local, society, the world].”
Game
This is a race in which the character Jequi aims to collect as much water as possible to the Valley. As the player can pick up the drops of water, the nature of the region is transformed.
In addition to entertaining, another goal of the project, according to its creators, is to encourage players to donate money for the purchase of tanks the region.
“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 the backcountry, “said Souza, 34, pedagogue and also newly formed digital games from PUC-MG.
” Our game brings something more than just fun. the game takes the virtual to the world real, “said Souza.
Imagine Cup 2016
This is the 14th edition of the” World Cup of Technology “company. In all, 35 teams competed for three awards:. Innovation, World Citizenship and Games
The event began on Wednesday (27) and ends on Friday (29). The winners of each category received $ 50,000. The runners-up won US $ 10,000 and third were at US $ 5000.
To get to the international edition, the Brazilian team had to overcome more than 1,600 students in the national phase, held earlier this year in Belo Horizonte (MG).
One of the rules of the Imagine Cup 2016 is that participants were enrolled in an educational institution between January 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016. in the case of team Brazil, 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 to Microsoft’s invitation
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