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Microsoft Corp announced Team Amplifiers from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI), KPK as the project winners from Pakistan to compete in the Imagine Cup worldwide finals to be held in July in Seattle, USA. The Imagine Cup is the world's premier competition for students, technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs to create innovative projects which can ultimately result in bringing new ideas to the industry. Started in 2003, it has steadily grown in size, with more than 358,000 competitors representing over 200 countries and regions.
Continuing their momentum of success, the Team Amplifiers qualified from Pakistan as winners to represent in the worldwide finals in Seattle, USA. Prior to achieving this, the team went through a series of rigorous and thorough process of evaluation; winning in the regional and national finals in World Citizenship category, where a large number of individuals participated.
The team then competed in World Semi finals as qualifiers from Pakistan, where they were evaluated along-with more than 170 teams from 76 countries making their way to top 34 teams which will now compete in Worldwide Finals. The Team Amplifiers includes four young and talented engineers namely Sherjeel Sikander, Immad Imtiaz, Junaid Imtiaz and Sameed Tariq, all studying at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI), KPK.-PR

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