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Finalists Announced in 50x15 'Connecting the World' Design Contest
Five university teams vie for $60,000 in prizes as part of AMD’s 50x15 Initiative to foster global Internet access.

For the past year, more than 30 student teams from colleges and universities in Argentina, Brazil and Chile have been working to develop innovative systems for enabling greater Internet connectivity throughout Latin America.

Among the finalists, four projects (“Fly Tech,” “Gota,” “Eco Red,” and “Interaction in Movement”) came from teams at Chilean universities while the fifth (“El Cipo”) came from a Brazilian university’s team.

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