Microsoft Korea held the ‘2012 Imagine Cup Korean national team pre-match’, then they selected the team named Let IT Be as the Korean representative team in the area of software design.

The Imagine Cup, which is the largest software competition in the world, marked its 10th anniversary. It has been held by Microsoft every year for students over 16 years old around the world since 2003.

350,000 students from 183 countries participated in last year’s competition. The match for the Korean national team took place on the 29th and 30th of last month at Incheon University, Songdo Campus with 1,000 participants.

Let IT Be, selected as the representative of the Korean national team has 5 students: Han Dae-yong (KMU), Kim Myeong-hoe (KMU), Lee Hae-kwang (Sangmyeong University), Kwon Heok-jung (Sungkonghoe University), Kwon Hye-jin (Ehwa Woman’s University). They showed a project entitled 'Colony Collapse Disorder' which comes to the fore with the environment problem.

The Let IT Be team made a system which allows people to monitor in real time by taking advantage of cloud computing, smartphone apps and webs to help make private beekeeping easy for monitoring disappearing bees. They will advance to the final competition held in Sydney in July and will get various types of mentoring session support, including Kinect sensors for research and development as well.

 
▲ 2012 ‘Let IT Be’ team selected as the Korean representative
for Microsoft Imagine Cup

The team named Noriter was awarded the grand prize with its entry 'Linkle', which is a program to prevent missing children by tracking a child's location.

In addition, many students who took part were given benefits such as a world union prize from the UN, CJ O’shopping talent award, a future talent award and so on.
Korean MS officials said that Korean students will represent the potential of young IT developers in the final competition held in Sydney, Australia because they did well this year as they usually do every year.

A Korean team has participated every year since the first competition. It was runner up for a software design in the 2007 Seoul competition, then ranked 1st for a short film in 2008, ranked 3rd for game development in 2009, ranked 1st for next generation web in 2010 and ranked 1st and 2nd for 7 window phone parts in 2011.