The IEEE PACE (Professional Activities Committees for Engineers) and Region 2 Susquehanna Section is sponsoring a section-wide contest as part of the IEEEXtreme 6.0, which is being held on October 20, 2012. IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE student members – advised and proctored by an IEEE member – compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. This contest is geographically spread out - you can create a competition site at your own institution. Also, students do not need to stay up the entire time. They leave the competition site to rest, and then return when they would like to continue.
For more information on the contest please visit the website: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html
The section is providing prize money for top teams and money for food for participants. This is a "distributed" competition, in that we envision that students will compete at sites in their own schools. The prizes will be awarded as follows:
In addition, the Section is also making available a limited amount of funding for food for participants. On a first-come basis, the section will provide up to $25 per contestant for food during the contest, with a limit of nine contestants per institution. This funding is limited to the first 39 contestants that are registered.
Registration Details
If you are a Penn State Harrisburg graduate or undergraduate student interested in competing, please send an email to jjb24@psu.edu.
In order to register a team from another school for the contest, please send the following information to Jeremy Blum, Treasurer of the Susquehanna Section, at jjb24@psu.edu:
Team Name
College/University Name
Student Names
Proctor's Name
How many of students and proctors are new IEEE members
Contact Name
Contact Email Address
Contact Address (where prizes would be sent for distribution to the students)
In addition, after the contest for each site, the contact provided at the time of registration will be asked to provide the following information: Number of volunteers other than the proctor who assisted in the contest at that site, with counts for how many of the volunteers are IEEE members and how many are not.
If your school's teams register with the Section in time to be eligible for funding for food, you will send either an invoice or receipts to Jeremy Blum within 30 days of the contest. You will be sent a check for the amount of the invoice or the receipts, up to the limit that was allocated for your school.
If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Blum at jjb24@psu.edu. Please also forward this announcement to others that you think would be interested.
For more information on the contest please visit the website: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html
The section is providing prize money for top teams and money for food for participants. This is a "distributed" competition, in that we envision that students will compete at sites in their own schools. The prizes will be awarded as follows:
- $100 per member of the first place team in the Section*
- $75 per member of the second place team in the Section*
- $50 per member of the third place team in the Section*
In addition, the Section is also making available a limited amount of funding for food for participants. On a first-come basis, the section will provide up to $25 per contestant for food during the contest, with a limit of nine contestants per institution. This funding is limited to the first 39 contestants that are registered.
Registration Details
If you are a Penn State Harrisburg graduate or undergraduate student interested in competing, please send an email to jjb24@psu.edu.
In order to register a team from another school for the contest, please send the following information to Jeremy Blum, Treasurer of the Susquehanna Section, at jjb24@psu.edu:
Team Name
College/University Name
Student Names
Proctor's Name
How many of students and proctors are new IEEE members
Contact Name
Contact Email Address
Contact Address (where prizes would be sent for distribution to the students)
In addition, after the contest for each site, the contact provided at the time of registration will be asked to provide the following information: Number of volunteers other than the proctor who assisted in the contest at that site, with counts for how many of the volunteers are IEEE members and how many are not.
If your school's teams register with the Section in time to be eligible for funding for food, you will send either an invoice or receipts to Jeremy Blum within 30 days of the contest. You will be sent a check for the amount of the invoice or the receipts, up to the limit that was allocated for your school.
If you have any questions, please contact Jeremy Blum at jjb24@psu.edu. Please also forward this announcement to others that you think would be interested.
