'FlashFood' App Wins US Finals in Imagine Cup for Students
VOA News 조회 수 432 추천 수 0 2012.05.29 00:15:57This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish
Students
from Arizona State University won top honors this spring at the Imagine Cup
finals in the United States. Microsoft Corporation organizes the competition
every year. The Imagine Cup asks students to use their imaginations and their
love of technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems. More than one
hundred thousand students in the United States alone registered for the event
this year. Twenty-two teams were chosen to take part in the finals in Seattle,
Washington. Team FlashFood won first place in the Imagine Cup's Software Design
competition.The team developed a computer software application and website to
help speed food donations from restaurants, hotels and farmers markets to needy
families. Eric Lehnhardt is the leader of Team FlashFood. He says food
insecurity affects a lot of people, especially in large population centers. He
notes that some people do not know where their next meal is coming from. His
team's winning mobile application and website is designed for operators of
restaurants. They can enter information about the food they would like to
donate. Then volunteer drivers go to pick up the donations and take them to
those in need. Richard Filley is director of the Engineering Projects in
Community Service program at Arizona State. Team FlashFood is one of the
program's thirty-seven projects. Richard Filley says winning the Imagine Cup's
Software design category is a major honor. But, he says, it is not what
energizes his students. He says they want to change the world and make a
difference. Microsoft is celebrating the tenth year of the Imagine Cup. Mark
Hindsbo is a vice president with the company. He says the competition has
changed a lot since it first began. Years ago, it mainly involved computer
science and almost all of the students had a computer science education. Mark
Hindsbo says the students who compete now have different areas of expertise. For
example, Team FlashFood had a student who studied biomedical engineering.
Another student studied marketing and sustainability. Yet another studied
material science and engineering.For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal.
You can find more stories about the Imagine Cup at voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 30Apr2012)
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