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Eligibility

All participants must be IEEE members (Student member or Graduate Student member only) to register and compete in the competition. IEEE membership numbers are required.
Participants must compete as part of a team of up to three IEEE Student or Graduate Student members. Teams should only include a maximum of two graduate student members per team.
Universities and colleges can have multiple teams.
Each team must have a proctor to supervise during the 24-hour programming competition.
Team members must solve and complete the problems without assistance from others.

Please note that the intent and spirit of the competition is for the students, not others, to solve a problem. Persons acting as proctor must limit the level of support and must not contribute in any other form that might be considered original authorship, or in any way that may enable claims of rights or ownership to the submitted entries. In no case will work on behalf of teams or individuals be allowed.

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Proctor

A proctor is mandatory for each team participating in the competition.

Proctors should be an IEEE member of higher membership grade (not an undergraduate or graduate student member).

Student Branch Counselors, Department Chairs, or IEEE GOLD members make great proctors as they are all higher grade IEEE members. Teams may want to recruit two proctors so that one can take a break to rest during the 24 hour competition.

Proctor tasks include:

monitor the general flow of the activity;
inform students when the competition begins, at the middle of it, when there are six hours left, and when there is one hour left;
ensure that no one external to the team members helps or assists the student participants in resolving the problems in any way.

A proctor can monitor no more than eight (8) teams.

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Venue

As IEEEXtreme is a virtual online competition, a physical location, or venue, must be identified for participants to use during the 24-hour competition.

Venues can be in a IEEE Student Branch office or a college lab or another location on campus. It must be a place that participants can use for the 24 hours during the competition and should be equipped with at least one computer and provide some type of connection to the internet.

A proctor must be physically located within the venue at all times throughout the 24-hour competition.

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Student branch activity

Student Branches, if able, should support and help to the participating teams, helping locate an appropriate venue for use during the competition, promoting the competition, assisting in identifying appropriate proctors, and increasing awareness of the student branch presence on campus.

Students attending universities who do not have an IEEE student branch on campus can still participate in the IEEEXtreme competition. This is an opportunity to bring students together to have fun with IEEE activities. Consider using this opportunity as a way to form a Student Branch.

Find more information on how to form a student branch

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