{"id":30455,"date":"2014-12-23T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30455"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T01:25:15","slug":"uh-hilo-team-wins-microsoft-imagine-cup-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/23\/uh-hilo-team-wins-microsoft-imagine-cup-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo team wins Microsoft Imagine Cup challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginecup.com\/team\/index\/70110\">H&#333;k&#363;<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> won the 2015 Imagine Cup pitch video challenge in the games category&#8212;the first challenge in the 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginecup.com\/\">Microsoft Imagine Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Team members <strong>Brian Hall<\/strong>, <strong>Theodore DeRego<\/strong>, <strong>Lucas DeRego<\/strong> and <strong>Casey Pearring<\/strong> created reForge, a casual 2D online sci-fi sandbox game where players command highly customizable ships in tactical battles. Players collect resources, trade in a player-driven economy and team up to competitively control various aspects of the game universe. <\/p>\n<p>Although not official members of the Imagine Cup Team, <strong>Kristin Pederson<\/strong> and <strong>Kelli Yamane<\/strong> worked on documentation aspects of the game as part of their <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo software engineering course.<\/p>\n<p>Team Hoku received a $3,000 cash prize and will move on to the blueprint and user experience challenges in the 2015 Imagine Cup competition, a global student technology competition. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/14\/uh-hilo-app-wins-prestigious-imagine-cup\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s 2013 Imagine Cup team wins U.S. Finals<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<em>From a <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6925\">news release<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2014\/12\/18\/microsoft\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Stories website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team H&#333;k&#363; won the 2015 Imagine Cup pitch video challenge in the games category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[742,541,1409,660,14],"class_list":["post-30455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-app","tag-computer-science","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30455"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149801,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455\/revisions\/149801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}