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IT SLIGO wins top prize in Microsoft Cup

A team of four students from IT Sligo has captured the overall trophy cup and a $25,000 (€17,650) cash award in the world’s largest student technology competition, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, in New York.

The students saw off teams from China, Romania, New Zealand, Jordan and the US to take first place for their project in software design, which is the centrepiece category of the Imagine Cup and the event’s top prize.

They created a small device that plugs into the diagnostics port on the dashboard of a car and monitors the driver, beeping if the car is driven in an unsafe way or to warn of a dangerous road.

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