It’s a dream to be part of the world’s premier software technology contest. You get to show you’re good. It’s even a bigger dream to be in the final. You get to show you’re the best.

One Indian team from the Dhirubhai Ambani Indian Institute of Communication and Technology has made it to the worldwide finals of Microsoft’s biggest tech competition, Imagine Cup. And this Indian team will be competing not anywhere else but in India.

It’s only been four years since the Imagine Cup has been instituted and already it has come to India. The worldwide finals 2006 will be held in Agra this August. At stake is $125,000. How did the competition get here so fast?