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Team Members Full Names:
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Nathalie Vélez Ponce,
Natalia Fernanda Delgado,
Carolina Zambrano,
Germán Arturo Insuasty
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Mentor:
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Javier Arteaga Romero
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Title of Project:
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Ideorama - Imagination Future
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Project Overview:
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An innovative system that proposes the generation of a Creative Universe filled with optimum solutions for the most significant problems the planet is facing; joining the imaginative potential of all human beings working as a single mind tending to the infinite.
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Technology/Software Used:
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Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5, ASP .Net, Web 2.0, Windows live tools, Popfly, SQL server 2008, LINQ, Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft Expression
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Inspiration: What inspired your team to enter the Microsoft Imagine Cup and why did you choose the Software Design competition?
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We believe this competition is the best way to help the world using technology, it's an invitation to put our minds to work in the search for a better place to live in.
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Team History: How did your team meet?
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Nathalie and Natalia were friends from work at the University, but the whole team met in the Design Management Specialization; we became good friends in a short time because our personalities were very compatible, so, it's great to be toghether now in this amazing experience!
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Team Experience: What experience did your team have with Software Design before competing in the Imagine Cup?
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Our institute has participated in the last 4 Imagine Cups, 2 times we've won the national finals but this is the first time we will be representing our country in the world finals!
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Highlights: What has been the best part of the Imagine Cup competition to date?
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Actually we don't know where to start, this is a great opportunity for students to have a real experience in a professional development; the chance to express to the world how their ideas could become the next step to change for good the way we live.
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Inspiration: How did your team come up with your submission? Include which Millennium Development Goal inspired your solution.
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We were planning on doing something innovative for the last 8 months, and the continous search for this idea added to the beginning of this contest was the way Idoeorama was born. This Software allows you to board any of the millenium goals by proposing a revolutionary idea to solve it.
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Challenges: What personal or technological challenges did your team face while developing your submission?
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We wanted to create a very interactive and attractive user interface, making it at the same time very confortable and easy to use, also, the generation of mental maps was somehow complex because of the dynamic diagrams created during the runtime in the website.
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Future Plans: What does your team plan on doing after the Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt? Do you plan to use your project to launch a new business?
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Yes, actually we think this is a great business idea, we've tought in basically 3 comercial services: Posting publicity for diverse corporations in search of good ideas for projects; subscriptions, to unlock advanced funcionalities of the software for improving the possibilities the user has; and finally, specialized support for Investigation and Development purposes.
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Links to more information (i.e. website, blog):
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http://www.udenar.edu.co - University of Nariño.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40765094959 - Ideorama Facebook Group.