The Cellardoor team made up of: Aleksandra Łukasiak, Rafał Szekalski, Oskar Szulc and Krzysztof Żarczyński from the Adam Mickiewicz University, prepared an interactive novel entitled “The Book of Elm”. The Book of Elm is an interactive novel which allows the users to face problems of the modern world. The player steers the figure – Elma which repairs mistakes made by humans. The game is dedicated to children. It teaches them that everybody can participate in the environment protection through everyday, simple activities such as saving water and electric energy. The game relates to the 3R concept: reduce, reuse and recycle.

In the same final, the second place in the category “IT technologies” was taken by students of the Poznań University of Technology – Błażej Matuszyk. Błażej was coping with IT problems, on his own, for 24 hours. The participants of this part of the contest were connecting with servers prepared by the organizers via a virtual desktop and were performing various contest tasks.

Third place was taken by another team of Poznań students from the Adam Mickiewicz University – Demoscene Spirit, made up of: Łukasz Michniewicz, Szymon Majewski, Magdalena Dudarska and Marek Banaszak, who prepared the Trident Project. The Trident Project helps to solve problems connected with floods. It consists of three modules, each of them corresponding to other aspect of this atmospheric phenomenon:

Monitoring of the condition of levees

Floods simulation

A module enabling the contact between the flood victims

Both the Poznań teams are taken care of by dr Tomasz Gdala.

The winner of the most prestigious category of the contest – designing the software, was a team from Ireland. The next final of the Imagine Cup will be organized in Sydney, Australia.