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Students from Serbia achieve great success at Imagine Cup

Belgrade, 15 July 2010

Minister of Youth and Sport Snezana Samardzic-Markovic congratulated the students of the “Mihajlo Pupin” Technical Faculty from Zrenjanin today on behalf of the Serbian government for having won the second prize in software design at the Imagine Cup world competition in Poland.

Samardzic-Markovic emphasised at the occasion that she hopes that this team and the “TeamWerkz” team from Singidunum University in Belgrade, which was declared one of the six best teams in the world in the Digital Media Category, will be an example to young people in Serbia.

For the last two years, the Ministry has been providing 38 scholarships to students of the Mihaljo Pupin Faculty of Technology in Zrenjanin, she recalled, adding that the Faculty has produced many talented students.

Telekom Srbija’s commercial director Vladimir Lucic said that he is pleased with the success of the students from Zrenjanin, stressing that Telekom Srbija is supporting the younger generation to make Serbia a rich source of new ideas and innovations.

Members of the Mihajlo Pupin Faculty team, Zlatibor Veljkovic, Milan Kojadinovic, Goran Nikolic and Vanja Zavisin and their academic mentor Dejan Lacmanovic, won second place in their category in the world finals, competing against 66 teams. No other team from Serbia has ever had a similar triumph before.

At the competition, which was organised by Microsoft, with the support of Telekom Srbija, members of this team won second place with their “Neural Communicator” project, which is software intended for individuals with special needs.

The students demonstrated the functioning of the software, which works with the help of sensors attached to the forehead and face of a person enabling them to interact with their environment.

Members of TeamWerkz from Singidunum University, Goran Jovanovic and Nikola Vukovic also addressed the press.

More than 325,000 high school and college students took part in the Imagine Cup competition and nearly 400 competitors from 66 countries succeeded in reaching the finals.