NEIP Grabs First Prize at the World Student Technology Competition
     - NEIP\'s Short Film Won First Prize at the Imagine Cup 2008
     - GOMZ Won Third Prize in the Game Sector  


Korea\'s NEIP team (digital media majors including Ahn Seong-Ran, Jeong Il-Jin, Chu Yeon-Jun, and Yi Seong-Wuk) and the GOMZ team (information and computer engineering major Kim Dong-Hun as a member ) won the first and the third prizes at the "Imagine Cup 2008.   


At the world student technology competition, the "Imagine Cup 2008," held in Paris, France, the Korean NEIP team won the first prize in short film by beating both the Mexican and Canadian teams. The GONZ team, which competed in the game development sector, was ranked third following the Brazilian and Belgian teams.  


While one of the Korean teams advanced to the final and won the second prize last year, four Korean teams competed in the finals in four sections and two of them won prizes this year. With "Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment" as its topic, this year\'s competition selected winners by evaluating  the uniqueness, innovativeness, potential for further development, and presentation of the project of each team.    

 

The team NEIP advanced to the final with "The Red Cloak," a short film about a boy anxiously waiting for a superman who will eliminate air pollution. As the finalists were supposed to shoot, edit, and finish a work on a new topic within 36 hours, the NEIP comically depicted the process of recycling cans and its significance in its work "Can" and won the first prize. According to the judges, the work was "eco-friendly and unique in its idea."   


The GOMZ team, which won the third prize in the game development section that was added this year for the first time, showed off its work, which features a touch of Korean elements.  The film"Cleanup," is an action game in which humans, who left the polluted earth for outer space and purified the environment of a cube, which is as polluted as the earth using clean guns.  


Started on July 3 this year, the "Imagine Cup" is a student technology competition created by Microsoft in 2003. Opened to all 16 year-olds or older students around the world, the competition this year had some 208,000 students participating from 120 countries, among whom some 370 students from 61 countries competed in the finals.


Ajou University