2010 Presidents' "Change the World" Competition | 
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Are you a student with an idea that could benefit humanity and revolutionize the way we live?
The 2010 IEEE Presidents’ “Change the World” Competition is open to college and university students who demonstrate excellence in the development, design and implementation of technology that can solve a life challenge for the benefit of humanity.
The competition’s goal is to recognize and reward individual students or teams of students who identify a real-world problem and apply engineering, science, computing and leadership skills to solve it. The contest offers students the perfect opportunity to have their ingenuity and enthusiasm for engineering and technology recognized by prestigious IEEE members around the globe.
The submission of entries will begin in September. Enter your address below to be notified when the submission process is open.
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Eligibility
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The contest is open to individual members of IEEE Student Branches or teams of college and university level students who have elected an IEEE Student Branch member as the team lead. |
Judging
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IEEE’s Regional Student Activities Committee will select a group of quarter-finalists to advance to the semi-final round. An all-star judging panel of leading IEEE engineers will review the entries and select and rank the finalists. These finalist projects will be posted and online voting to select a “People’s Choice” award will begin. IEEE’s three presidents, immediate past, present and future, will also evaluate the projects and select the final winners based on the results their project achieves as well as the overall impact on humanity or their local community. Entries will also be judged by sustainability, reusability and transportability of the project’s results to other parts of the world. |
Prizes
All remaining prizes will be presented by a local IEEE representative. (IEEE Region Director or a designee such as the IEEE Student Activities Chair, a Section Chair or a Student Branch Counselor.) Prizes to winning teams will be split equally among the team’s registered student members*. * As permitted by law. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of each prize winner. |
Selection Criteria
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The winners shall be selected based on the results achieved and their impact on humanity, or, on a community. Sustainability, reusability, transportability of the results to other parts of the world, entrepreneurship, originality, creativity and leadership shall be important but secondary evaluation factors. |
Submissions
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Entries must be submitted using the form that will be housed on competition Web site which will be available in September. Requirements include the following:
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2009 Results
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Congratulations to the Winners of the IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition! Read more about the winning entries. |
