Team Lifewatch, after presenting their innovative solution alongside seven other teams from the Nigerian Universities and Polytechnics, in the World Citizenship category from the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAB) in Lagos won the national finals of the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition.

Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier technology competition for smart students all over the world.

Though every solution presented can perform their designed duty in solving problems, the panel of judges after severe scrutiny and review of the eight projects presented by the respective teams announced team Lifewatch as winner of the Nigerian national finals.

Team Lifewatch success was as a result of the their created solutions ability to address clear local issues, success in its appropriate market given the team’s existing plan and easy to use among other unique features

Accordingly, each team had pitched their project and answered questions from judging panel comprised of highly respected Nigerian IT experts and entrepreneurs.

By wining the national finals, the team made up of four smart technology students from ABUAB, Raymond Obinaju, Adeyemo Oluwaseum Kayode, Ahion Kevin and Sobola Timilehin David has qualified for semi-finals enabling them to compete for a spot in the World finals if they scale through in the semi-finals.

Other competing teams will include, Teamx-Dev, Team Inspre, Teamx-, Team Yurix, Team Lifewatch, Team FlairTech, Team Paradigm, among others. The wining team from ABUAB had presented a health solution called AsthmaVisor.

The solution is a phone app,synthesized with an external hardware to provide real-time monitoring of asthmatic patients.

According to the team leader, Raymond Obianuju who was full of excitement after the announcement of the result said that the product is configured to monitor the patient’s environment and give early warning signals if a threat to the patient’s health exists.

If the patient eventually has an attack, he explained that that it would send emergency messages as well as the patient’s pre-defined emergency contacts, alerting them of the situation and providing the location where the patient was last seen.

“I am happy that my team won the national finals.The journey to semi-finals has just begun. We will make it to the global stage by the time we win semi-finals. There are positive signals that we will make it to the global finals given the innovative solution we have”, he said.

Addressing the students after the panel of judges had announced the result at the Idea Hub, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos, where the competition was held, Shina Oyetosho, Developer and Platform Evangelism Lead, Microsoft Nigeria told the gathering that everybody was a winner. You have just started the journey to the global stage, he said.

“It does not end here. You all have amazing solutions but there has to be one winner. It is not about what happens here but what happens after this. The fact that you did not win does not mean that your solution is not good. Use it to change the world. Use it to solve world toughest problems”, Oyetosho who is passionate about start-ups said.

As Microsoft enters the final code hunt challenge for the 2015 edition of the software competition, for the second year in a row, there appears to anxiety among the semi-finalists students struggling to make it the World Finals that will be held in Microsoft’s home of Seattle, from July 27 to July 31, 2015


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