Despite good outing, Nigerian students have failed to scale the hurdle to round two of ongoing Imagine Cup 2011 in the software design category.

Eight African countries including Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda are currently flying African flags at the ongoing Microsoft Imagine Cup, the wouldc’s premier students technology competition holding in New York, the Unted States of America.

While most talented global students gather for the 2011 Imagine Cup series in New York, the United States of America, the Chief Executive Officer of the global software giant, Steve Ballmer has challenged over 400 software incubators currently participating in the competition to solve the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) including poverty, education, disease, environmental sustainability among others with technology.

As over 120 software solutions battle to win people choice award through online voting system, Medicare software application designed by four students from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) flying Nigerian flag at the ongoing 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup students technology contest holding in New York, the United States of America, has been ranked 4th position globally.

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