IEEEXtreme 24 Hour Programming Challenge

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Challenge Overview
General Organization
What is a Proctor?
Problem Submission
Award recipients
Other information

Challenge Overview

IEEEXtreme 2009 planning is underway. Mark your calendars for 24 October 2009.

IEEEXtreme is an IEEE MGA Student Activities Committee program, creating a worldwide 24 hour programming contest for IEEE Student Branches. Use the flyer to promote it on your campus.

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of student members, supported by an IEEE Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE Member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems.

Provide Student Branches with a new and interesting activity
Increase the number of activities with a focus on the computer, programming and information technology fields with fans in IEEE
Promote the challenge at your Student Branch by using this ad (PDF, 2.75 MB)
Challenge date is 24 October 2009
For reference, world times are listed here
Check back in August for registration information
Visit the FAQs page for general questions.

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General Organization

The challenge starts at 00:00:00 UTC on Friday, 24 October 2009 and finishes 24 hours later.
Teams will include up to 3 IEEE student members (Student members (StM) or Graduate Student members (GSM). Must be IEEE members to participate on the team.
Students Branches can form multiple teams.
Student Branches will host the event for their local team, with easy access to university facilities, branch promotion and awareness building on campus.
Each of the places where the competition is hosted (ranging from Student Branch offices to college labs) is called a Venue.
Each Venue should be equipped with at least one computer and some kind of connection to the Internet.

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What is a Proctor?

Each of these Venues should have a Proctor, who should be an IEEE Member of higher membership grade (not an undergraduate student member)
Student Branch Counselors, Department Chairs or GOLD members will make great Proctors; you may want to have two, so one can take a break, as it is a 24 hour challenge
Proctor tasks include:
- Receive problems and provide them to students
- Monitor the general flow of the activity
- Inform students when the competition begins, at the middle of it, when there are 6 hours left and when there is 1 hour left
- Collect the solutions to each of the problems and keep a record of the timing
Proctor should NOT:
- Let himself or anybody external to the team members help the students in resolving the problems in any way
- The problems will be proposed and judged by the Technical Committee of judges, a panel of experts from both Academia and Industry
- Preferably IEEE members
- An Xtreme organizing committee formed by IEEE volunteers will take care of the management part of the contest, such as registering and problem submission)

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Problem Submission

Teams should submit their problem solutions electronically using a contest management page, which will be provided on the instructions page later.
Sample problems from previous challenges are available - refer to other information below. The 2009 contest problems will be available the day of the contest.
Each submission gets a time stamp (extra points awarded for early submission)

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Award recipients

Members of the winning teams will receive IEEE certificates and prizes to recognize their efforts.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation and a big "thank you" for helping us make the IEEE more fun.
Check back for more details as the challenge date gets close and registration opens.

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Other information

For sample problems, check the FAQs or visit the site.
For additional information, check the frequently asked questions.
The first IEEEXtreme in 2006 and results are available.
The second IEEEXtreme in 2008 and results are available.
IEEEXtreme is organized by two teams of volunteer members without whom these events would not be possible. To view the list of the 2008 Organizing Team members and the Technical Team members, you can visit the web sites.
After checking the frequently asked questions, please send any additional questions to ieeextreme@ieee.org
The flyer (PDF, 264 KB) was used to promote the 2008
Thank you to all the teams and proctors for your participation. The student teams' enthusiasm was amazing! Teams used the 2008 competition booklet and booklet 2 was released at hour 12 and booklet 3 was released at hour 18. All had fun!

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