Today is the fourth day of the Imagine Cup in India. We arrived one day earlier than most of the other contestant, so during Sunday more and more students where arriving. On Sunday night we had the welcome party, with opening speeches and videos, music and food. The "band" that played on the opening night was an Indian version of the Norwegian band "Ralph Mayers and The Jack Harren Band". I don't remember the name so I'll look it up later. The Norwegian team left early from the party to work on out application, and we weren't in bed until 04 AM.

Monday was the first day of the contest. We started out by doing a 7 minute lightning round which didn't count. This round was held just to get us warmed up. Later that day we had the first real round of the Imagine Cup, a 20 minute presentation and 10 minutes of questions. The presentation went excellent and all the demos worked perfectly. Later that day we (team Norway), Japan and UK where invited to do a press briefing talking about our projects and our experience as contestant at the Imagine Cup world finals.

Tuesday morning was spent in our team booth giving presentations to media, other teams and guests of the competition. There where quite allot of people interested in our project, so we where quite really busy. The 12 teams who made it to the next round where announced around lunch. I don't remember all the other teams who made it, but both Norway and Denmark made it to the next round. 41 teams are now down to one. We did our second round presentations Tuesday afternoon, which now was 35 minutes and 15 minutes of questions. The judges gave us great feedback, and actually said that they where blown away… So no our fingers are crossed, and hopefully we'll move on to the final 6 teams to present tomorrow Thursday.

Today, Wednesday, we've been relaxing and visiting and old mausoleum for some important Indian guy from the early 1600's. I don't remember his name, so I'll post a Wikipedia link later on. We spend the day divided into groups doing different kinds of work at the site. Some people where working in the garden, while others where filling cracks in the floor and walls, or  where swiping dust. Now we just had lunch before heading over to Taj Mahal, something I'm definitely are looking forward to.

Gøran have posted som pictures on his Flickr site. Check them out over at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22075141@N00/sets/72057594128196432/