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"Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today."

Team Chapman University is a group of students in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science entered in the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition. The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition, with teams from around the world competing to create technological solutions to some of the toughest problems facing our world today.

This year’s theme challenges competitors to reflect upon the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations that aspire to make the world a better place by achieving such noble goals as reducing poverty, hunger, disease, and improving access to education in the developing nations around the world by the year 2015. Using this theme, students compete in a range of competitions of various technological disciplines to create unique and innovative solutions that will help further these UN goals.

As part of a course offered by the Mathematics and Computer Science department this semester entitled “Collaborative Game Design,” four students including myself and professor Wood Harter have been working on a computer game that educates players on these development goals and how the UN accomplishes them. Thus by bringing awareness of these goals to the general public, we hope to raise more popular support for the international agencies that are working so diligently to better our world. This game was submitted to the Imagine Cup Game Development competition at the beginning of March.

From approximately 630 teams from around the world, the Chapman University team was one of 150 teams selected to move on to round two of the competition. For the next two months we will be working hard to improve our submission and compete to be one of the six finalist teams who will be flown to Egypt this summer for the final round.