David Roedl

This is the first post in a series documenting my trip to Paris to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interface Design Competition. Unfortunately, our journey got off to a slow start yesterday. Storms over the midwest kept our flight out of Indy delayed over 5 hours. When we finally arrived in Detroit around 1am, we had missed our flight to Paris and were left to camp out under the sweet shade of a plastic tree:

With our new flight departing this afternoon, we’re set to arrive in Paris at 9:30am tomorrow. At 1pm the Interface Design finals will commence, and we will be given a brand new challenge with 24 hours to design, build, and present our solution. No rest for the wicked, I suppose. Nevertheless, we are psyched to be competing in the world’s biggest technology competition, all under the theme of environmental sustainability. And we’re optimistic: maybe sleep deprivation is just the stimulus we need for some out-of the box thinking ;)

I’ll try to post some more updates once we land in Paris. If you are interested you can also check out the Imagine Cup details on the website or follow frequent updates on their blog.