Both Swiss entries put in a strong showing at the iCAN'11 Finals, which were held from June 4-7 at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing.

Yujia Zhai, David Bonzon and Christian Adamczyk (EPFL) won third place in the contest and $1,000 with their project, entitled "Sensing the world through iPhone/Smartphone".

A second team selected to represent Switzerland in Beijing, made up of students Matthieu Rüegg, Ludovic Serex and Nicolas Vachicouras and supervised by Professor Kamiar Aminian, received a Best Contribution Award (consolation prize).

27 teams participated in the final selection which was open to teams from outside China for the first time.

For more information you can follow these links :

• EPFL Press Release
• iCAN'11 World results summary
• iCAN'11 Swiss Final Results/Photos