The Imagine Cup award ceremony is the most exciting event, where the winning teams from each category of competition are announced. This year, the award ceremony was held at the Lincoln Center not far from Time Square. There were interesting guests delivered speech and help handing out the awards, including New York city mayor, Michael Bloomberg, Eva Longoria, a famous celebrity and Halo master chief.

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New York city mayor, Michael Bloomberg
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Famous celebrity, Eva Longoria
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Halo Master Chief

During the award ceremony, Microsoft announced that all 2011 Imagine Cup worldwide final competitors will get a Windows Phone 7 and an Xbox Kinect.  In addition, all 1st place winners are invited to attend the Build conference in Anaheim, California which will take place during September this year.

Here are the winning teams for the Embedded Development competition:

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1st prize was captured by team NTHUCS from Taiwan
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2nd prize was captured by team Harmonicare from China
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3rd prize was captured by team Endeavour_Design from Romania

The award ceremony was exciting and inspirational.  The auditorium was full of excitement and energy.

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All 1st prize winners on stage
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Embedded development competition winners
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All 1st prize winners on stage

After the ceremony, all competitors return to the hotel where Microsoft hosted a farewell party after dinner was served to provide additional opportunity for the students to network and socialize.

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The party was fun and energetic. I can see lots of students from different region of the World are making connection at the party.

For more information about the 2011 Imagine Cup Worldwide final, visit the following URL:

http://www.imaginecup.com/CompetitionsContent/2011Winners.aspx