A group of students from Trinity College Dublin will represent Ireland at the global finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2009, the company’s global student technology competition, with their project ‘Trinity Sight’.
Now in its seventh year, Imagine Cup challenges students to ‘Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today’.
As winners of the Irish finals, ‘Trinity Sight’ will travel to Egypt this summer to compete against students from all over the world at the global finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009.
This is the third year that Ireland has competed in the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. This year the competition has attracted 550 entries from Universities, third level colleges and Institutes of Technology across the country from both north and south of the border.
Trinity College Dublin’s team, ‘Trinity Sight’, project plans to tackle the problem of blindness. They plan to help relieve this problem by designing and building a Simulator for Eye Surgical Training. The currently available system costs €100,000. With this Project, Trinity Sight hopes to create a cheaper, maintainable system for simulating the skills required for use during Cataract Removal surgery, using affordable off the shelf components.
Aidan Lynch, from the winning team said, “We’re delighted to have been chosen from amongst our peers to represent Ireland in such a prestigious competition. We look forward to representing Trinity College Dublin, our fellow students and our country in Egypt this summer and we are grateful to Microsoft for the opportunity. Insert a comment on the project.”
Further information on the Microsoft Imagine Cup can be seen on www.imaginecup.com.
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