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SOAK!">Go Team SOAK!

By Nick Hodge | July 9, 2008

Best in the world: Team SOAK from Vic­toria, Aus­tralia have won the world­wide Ima­gine Cup 2008.

SOAK stands for “Smart Oper­a­tional Agri­cul­tural toolKit”. I saw this demon­strated in the pre­lim­in­ary finals prior to ReMIX finals for the Aus­tralian Ima­gine Cup con­tenders. As a farmer’s son, I instantly saw the applic­a­tion. Meas­ur­ing water, includ­ing rain­fall, is a con­stant man­age­ment pro­cess. From memory, the farm I grew up on had daily rain­fall meas­ure­ment from 1972.

The enthu­si­asm of the team, the way they col­lab­or­ated across 4 dif­fer­ent uni­ver­sit­ies and the applic­a­tion of their inven­tion all con­trib­uted to their well deserved award.

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