Last week Vinny Kumar, Team Leader for Team OneBeep, told IT Brief that the University of Auckland team had a realistic chance of winning Microsoft’s Imagine Cup at the global finals in Poland this week.

At the finals Team OneBeep quickly made it to the final six. The top six was whittled down from 68 teams from around the world.

Vinny Kumar, Chanyeol Yoo, Kayo Lakadia and Steve Ward of Team One Beep achieved the highest placing for a New Zealand team in the history of the competition.

The final results came in overnight and third place went to New Zealand, second went to Serbia, with Thailand being crowned the winner.

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Source: Gavin Ogden, www.techday.co.nz