IEEEXtreme 24 Hour Programming Challenge

Saturday, 29 December 2007

IEEEXtreme results are available. Thank you to all the Xtremists who participated in this first year's competition.

IEEEXtreme is a SAC initiative for creating a worldwide programming contest for IEEE Student Branches. IEEEXtreme is a worldwide contest in which teams of student members, supported by a 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. The next contest will began at 0:01 GMT and end at 0:01 GMT the following day. We know the date 8 March 2008, so make plans now and check back in January for updates.

Challenge Goals:

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.- use the flyer (PDF, 264 KB).
Challenge date is 8 March 2008
Visit the IEEEXtreme blog.
For reference, world times are here

General Organization

The challenge starts at 00:01GMT on Friday, 8 March 2008, and finishes at 00:01 GMT on Sunday, 10 march 2008
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.
Student Branches will host the event for their local team, with easier 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

Proctors

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 Judging Committee, a panel of experts from both Academia and Industry
- Preferably IEEE members
- A SAC Contest Committee formed by IEEE volunteers will take care of the management part of the contest (such as enrollment or problem submission)

Problem Submission

Teams should submit their problem solutions electronically using a contest management page (which will be provided http://ieeextreme.org)
Each submission gets a time stamp (extra points awarded for early submission)
Languages supported are: C/C++ (using gcc), Java (using Sun’s JDK) and C# (using Mono)

Winners

Both the members of the winning teams and their Student Branches will receive IEEE certificates and really great 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

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