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Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU’s) Team Xormis is the 2010 world champion of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interoperability Award!

Team Xormis rocketed past 90 competitors from around the world, flanked by two teams in the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition held in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, July 8, 2010. 

NCU's Microsoft Imagine Cup Champions (L-R) Kenrie Hylton, Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at NCU, and team members Dwayne Samuels, Markel Mairs, Shawn McLean and Derron Brown
 
Brazil and Indonesia were the two other world finalists who challenged Jamaica for the world championship title; Brazil copped second place and Indonesia, third.
 
Team Xormis, comprised Dwayne Samuels, Markel Mairs, Shawn McLean and Derron Brown - all students of NCU's Department of Computer and Information Sciences, received prestigious Microsoft Imagine Cup gold trophies and the US$8,000 cash prize. However, beyond that is the phenomenal honour that now crowns NCU’s Computer and Information Sciences Programme as the finest in the region, and certainly on par with the best in the world.
 
In the eight years of the competition, NCU has been national champions for the six times it has entered (2005 - 2010) and has been crowned regional champions on four occasions. In 2007 the NCU Imagine Cup Team ICAD out-designed other competitors from across the globe to place third in the world in the finals in South Korea.

 “We hope that with all the negative challenges that we have faced as a country that this achievement is something that everyone will celebrate and exclaim: ‘we are proud to be Jamaican!’” said Dr. Herbert Thompson, President of NCU. “I join the University family, Jamaica and the region in celebrating the achievement of our Imagine cup teams in Poland. It is clear - If Jamaican young people are given a chance and the tools with which to work, they can perform superbly at the highest level.”
 
Team Xormis’s project, “eXtensible Opportunity and Resource Matching Information System,” is a matchmaker that couples significant and pervasive problems with the appropriate solution providers by employing multiple technologies to connect people, data, or diverse systems in a new way. 

"We are extremely excited and overwhelmed with emotion about winning the first place for the 2010 Imagine Cup Interoperability Award. It feels great to see that all the hard work and dedication that was put into developing this project has paid off,” shared an elated Kenrie Hylton, Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at NCU. “I’m hoping that this can further inspire others to step up to the challenge and realize that with hard work and determination, they too can achieve and change the world."
 
The Competition’s organizers noted that this year’s competition has “set a new bar” and has produced a host of exceptional projects. This commendation makes the Xormis project even more magnificent.
 
The Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, themed, "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems,” is the world’s premier student technology competition sponsored by Microsoft to provide students with a platform to showcase their software development and technical skills to the world’s most challenging problems.

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