Pengram wins first place at Microsoft Imagine Cup US Finals
On May 5, 2018, twelve student teams from across the nation convened at the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco, CA to compete for the gold in the annual US Imagine Cup Finals. The event started with a keynote address from Microsoft Corporate Vice President Derek Burney, followed by project pitches from the twelve teams representing top schools like Johns Hopkins, UC Davis, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Pengram, the UC Berkeley team made of student from the Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) program, Berkeley VR Club, and Center for Augmented Cognition, won first place. Pengram is an AR/VR platform which allows engineers from around the world to be holographically ‘teleported’ into a workspace when needed. For example, if an operator that is repairing a $100,000 medical device needs help, they will be able to wire into our service, and using a Hololens, they will be able to watch an expert on that device perform the repairs in 3D.
Will Huang, MEng ’18 (EECS), was one of the leading students on the Pengram team. As a double bear, completing his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Will co-founded the Virtual Reality at Berkeley club in February of 2015. He sees his Master of Engineering degree as an extension of his undergraduate career at Berkeley and plans to continue working on Pengram after graduation.
The six winning teams from the US Imagine Cup Finals advance to the 16th annual Imagine Cup World Finals for a chance to win a $100,000 cash prize.
Congratulations Pengram team on placing first! Wishing you luck in the World Cup. 👏
What’s is the Imagine Cup?
For the past 16 years, the Imagine Cup has been the world’s premier student technology competition. Since 2003, Microsoft has provided a global platform for students to turn their dreams into reality. Students from across the globe build amazing teams to bring their biggest, boldest ideas to life. Working with mentors and industry leaders, they get feedback to further hone and develop their project. Read more about the Imagine Cup here: https://imagine.microsoft.com/en-us/Category/11
A earlier version of this blog mentioned that Pengram was using OpenARK software. In fact, Pengram plans to use OpenARK software in the future.
