Nigeria: 2013 Imagine Cup - We Will Do Country Proud, Arulogun Assures

After a good presentation and outing Tuesday before panel of international judges at the ongoing 2013 Imagine Cup software students competition, the world's premier student technology competition holding in St. Petersburg, Russia, the mentor of team Nigeria, 'Team LifeSaver from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Dr. O.T. Arulogun has said with optimism that the students were prepared to do Nigeria proud and bring the Cup home.

Already, more than $1million in cash and prices are available to student competitors. Over the past ten years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the Microsoft Imagine Cup annual competition.

This year, there will no elimination in rounds at the ongoing worldwide finals as all finalist teams will remain in the competition until winners are announced on the last day of the event this week.

With their amazing solution and great supports from National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Dell, Nokia and MainOne, Dr. Arulogun, who is a lecture in the department of Computer Science and Engineering of the university having witnessed the brilliant presentation of the four best software incubators from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilefe, (OAU) and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech) Ogbomoso, Oyo respectively said that, "that was a good beginning.

"The students are well equipped. That was a good outing. Iam very optimistic that Team Nigeria will fly Nigeria flag well by coming out as the best team in the national finals in the category of World Citizenship. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso is among the best school of Technology in Nigeria with a strong IT resources"

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