What if all of your hard work came down to a single moment? For many of us, success is gradual and certainly this is true for each of the 33 teams who competed in multiple rounds of competition before arriving in Redmond, Washington last week for the global competition known as the Microsoft Imagine Cup…
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Join Microsoft #ImagineCup 2015 World Championship LIVE Today at 3 pm ET / Noon PT
Today is the day where the top technology projects in Games, Innovation, and World Citizenship categories battle it out for the glory of being the Imagine Cup 2015 World Champion. Join in via the live webcast to see the three top teams battle it out before a panel of judges that includes Thomas Middleditch, star of…
An Inside Look at the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup #ImagineCup #MSFTImagine
As Plato said, “Necessity is the mother of invention” and yesterday Emily and I got to see amazing inventions during the first day of the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition where 122 students on 33 teams from around the world presented their ideas in the fields of Games, Innovation, and World Citizenship. As they competed for the top…
Seattle Bound for the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup Global Competition #ImagineCup #MSFTImagine
Do you have a technological advancement that can help solve the world’s problems? This week 33 teams from around the world are converging at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington to showcase their original projects that have brought them to the Imagine Cup World Championship. Up until this point, these teams of four students, ages…
Free Microsoft YouthSpark Summer Camp for Beginning and Experienced Coders at Microsoft Stores Near You
With Memorial Day behind us and plenty of end of the year activities scheduled over the next couple weeks, it finally seems like summer is truly around the corner. Each year my strategy for summer is the same- a couple weeks of camp for both kids, a lot of pool and outdoor time, a family…
Holiday Work-Life Balance with Microsoft Surface Pro 3
As much as I look forward to the holidays for some much needed rest and relaxation and some time unplugged, the remaining items on my to-do list, the few posts I need to write between now and the New Year, and trying to prepare for CES at the start of 2015 seem to indicate that…
9 Things to Do to Become Microsoft Office Power User #OfficeChamps
As a member of #WindowsChampions I receive products for review and am a compensated member of #OfficeChamps. One of the best gifts we can give our parents is the gift of tech support. With Mother’s Day past and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s a great time to give them some tutorials to help them…
Microsoft Office for iPad Now Available & OneNote Free for All Devices!
Gone are the days where the best productivity using Microsoft Office tools was done on a Windows platform. Recent news about Office for iPad and OneNote being available free for the first time for Mac users made cross-platform users like me who seek fluidity between all devices do a little dance for joy! As a…
Microsoft #ChampionsSummit: Xbox One, 3D Printing, Imagining the Future, & Seattle in 72 Hours {sponsored}
The last time I visited Seattle I was there as a technology consultant for my school system, presenting at a national technology and education conference on helping nonreaders write where companies like Microsoft, LeapFrog, Promethean, Scholastic, National Geographic, PBS, and Discovery Channel filled the vast expo hall. I never would have imagined 11 years ago…
Microsoft Surface with Windows RT Review and Giveaway
So far PC tablets have been sort of meh for me until getting a sneak peek at the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT during a private meeting at BlogHer in August. Like with most new tech devices, I was immediately intrigued by this new Windows tablet but wondered if the sleek, seemingly easy to use,…
