We thank the following 2009 sponsors for their generosity and dedication to helping the world's brightest students achieve their potential.

 

 

 

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. 

 

Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) is a division of Paramount Pictures Corp. PDE develops and distributes filmed entertainment across worldwide digital distribution platforms, including online, mobile and portable devices, videogames, virtual worlds, and technologies. Paramount Pictures Corp. (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom, a content company with film, television, and digital entertainment brands. For more information, visit Paramount Pictures.

 

Mesh Services are building blocks that bring software and internet services together to put you in control of your digital world. They allow you to interact with applications, files, people, and devices that matter the most and make sure you are in sync with them wherever you are and whenever you need them. The Live Framework provides one place to program against Mesh Services and other exciting Live Services like Live Contacts, Live Profile, and much more. These are the same things that power the Windows Live and Mesh experiences now you have their power at your disposal! Experience Mesh and earn about developing on Mesh Services.
 

 

XNA Game Studio enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create videogames for Windows and Xbox 360 using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on .NET. Combined with an active membership in the XNA Creators Club (available from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace), you can also create, debug, and play games on your Xbox 360 console.

 

 

Windows Embedded is a family of operating systems that offer familiar tools and technologies for developers to quickly bring the next generation of smart, connected, service-oriented devices to market.

 

Microsoft Interoperability enables innovation and opportunity. Job market success comes easily to those who can recognize the opportunity for a mixed-technology solution and effectively leverage the interoperability of Microsoft products. Bright minds are constantly developing solutions that enable new interoperability scenarios, such as playing MP3, AAC, and WMA music together, or mashing up new cross-platform applications and services on the Internet. 

 

Microsoft Accessibility makes it easier for anyone to see, hear, and use a computer, and to customize their computing environment according to their own preferences, needs, and abilities. For many people, accessibility is what makes computer use possible. At Microsoft, our mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. We consider our mission statement a promise to our customers. We deliver on that promise by striving to create technology that is accessible to everyoneincluding people who experience the world in different ways because of impairments and disabilities.
 

Microsoft Unlimited Potential combines advanced technologies and strong partnerships with governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and technology and service partners. Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world's economic pyramid-the next 5 billion people. Unlimited Potential aims to reach 1 billion people by 2015 by exploring solutions in three key interrelated areas: transforming education, fostering local innovation, and enabling jobs and opportunities. In these three areas, Microsoft Unlimited Potential can create the greatest possible impact in building a virtuous cycle of sustained social and economic development. Sustainability is a key indicator of effective programs and activities, and is our long-term measure of success.

 

Microsoft Learning builds innovative training products that enable you to make the most of your investment in Microsoft products and technologies. Microsoft Learning offers a diverse range of programs that includes Microsoft training and certification, Microsoft Press books, instructor-led training, skills assessments, and e-learning solutions. From utilizing cutting edge technology to advancing world-class training, Microsoft Learning provides the tools to help you stand out in whatever field you choose.
 

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MSRDS) is a Windows based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.  MSRDS provides an end-to-end robotics development environment which includes: Visual Programming Language, Visual Simulation Environment, lightweight services-orientated runtime, and sample code/services/documentation to help get you started. 

 

 

Meet Windows Mobile. The day you bring home a Windows Mobile phone, you can quickly have it working with your Windows PC and use it to access the same e-mail accounts you've had for years. Stay in touch with the people in your life no matter how they like to chat. Don't miss another anniversary or birthday. Take your music to the gym. Stay entertained while you wait for your kids. Take the picture that would have slipped away. Get it all done with a Windows Mobile phone.

 

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Bradesco has a tradition of carrying out social responsibility initiatives throughout its 64 years of existence. Over this period it has provided top quality education for 2.1 million pupils through the Bradesco Foundation. It also takes part in a diversified cycle of social and environmental responsibility initiatives which bring together culture, environmental activities, sports, Information Technology, and citizenship.