The 2010 Imagine Cup Worldwide final is held in Poland from July 3rd to 8th, with more than 400 students from over 70 countries invited to compete in the Worldwide final.

For the embedded development competition, team from Taiwan captured first prize with their SmaterMeter project, team from Russia captured second prize with their Robonanny project and team from France captured third prize with their GERAS project.  For more information about the winning teams, visit the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/jul10/07-09Taiwan.mspx

During the Worldwide final closing ceremony, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a video message to the Imagine Cup finalists:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/imaginecup/videoGallery.aspx?contentID=wwimaginecup10_obama 

 eBox-33xxA family of eBoxe are revolutionary compact computing devices built with integrated I/O peripherals common to the desktop PC.  The compact and fanless design is ideal for use in application with limited space and requires wider operating temperature ranges, such as low-cost Point-of-Sale, Thin-Clients, Signage, Industrial-controller, networked appliances and etc.  Due to it's compact size and minimal cost, these eBoxes are ideal hardware platform used by application/device developer to develop Proof-of-Concept application that runs on actual hardware.

The eBox-3310A-MSJK Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 Jump Start kit is developed to help developer ease the learning curve to engage in Windows Embedded CE development.  This jump start kit is designed to work right out of the box with preconfigured software and step-by-step how-to guide to work through different learning exercises.