Breaking News! - 4 teams from Sri Lanka enters Imagine Cup 2009 World finals

It's with great pleasure & pride that we announce the 4 teams from Sri Lanka who have made it to the Imagine Cup 2009 World Finals to be held in Egypt. What makes their entry a great achievement for Sri Lanka is that, this is the highest number of teams representing our country at the finals in the history of Imagine Cup.

A total of over 800 students from Sri Lanka stepped up and signed up for the competition this year to solve the toughest problems facing us today. This year’s local competition winner from SLIIT is joined in ranks by three teams from the University of Moratuwa in Embedded Development, Robotics and Algorithm and MashUp categories, who are all highly energized and poised to make Mother Sri Lanka proud.

This year, being declared the Year of English and IT in Sri Lanka, seems the ideal occasion to bring the big trophy to Sri Lanka. Do join me in wishing the teams Good Luck at the World Finals in Cairo!!

	Team: Mahee Team Mahee Consists of Akila Jayasooriya, Chathura Jayasinghe, Dunith Kankanamage and Lakkana Perera from Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology won the Imagine Cup 2009 Sri Lanka competition and fully geared up to compete in the world finals in Cairo in July.	Team: SAS_EN Four members Amila Sajayahan, Sanjaya Ratnayake, Anuruddha Ranatunga, Ruvindee Tharaka from University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Information Technology got together this year to compete in the Embedded category. This team represented Sri Lanka in the software design category in Imagine Cup 2007 world finals.	Competitor: Aravinda P Aravinda is from University of Moratuwa, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Following the great passion he has for Electronics, Computers and Robotics he took his chances and excelled at the Robotics and Algorithm category by making to the top 6 competitors.	Team: Sasrutha Dasuni Kannangara and Supunmali Ahangama are from University of Moratuwa, Faculty of IT. They have being friends since school days. They were members in the 2008 Sri Lanka software design winning team and this year they too the challenge to compete in the Mash Up category and made it to the world top 6.

Well! in case if you remember ... a long time ago I started developing the next version of my blog. Time has passed and new technologies have come and the old ones looks ... absolutely old ... But I havent moved an inch on the new blog development in ages. In terms of technologies ... I think i'm getting dumb and dumber :)

Right now i'm in a really busy schedule. Well! I was in a busy schedule those days also, but competed to the current busy status those were like teasers. Now you must be wondering what the hell am I busy with ... there are many things keeping me busy busy these days ... among those ... the new born baby, upcoming Imagine Cup Egypt tour, final preparations for the Imagine Cup world competition, preparations for the next Microsoft financial year, tons of meetings etc are there. But above all ... Software for the 21st Century project is taking a majority of my time.