IEEEXtreme 24 Hour Programming Challenge

IEEEXtreme 2008 took place 8 March 2008. Thank you to all the teams and proctors for your participation. The student teams' enthusiasm was amazing! The judges completed their evaluations and the results are now available.

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!

IEEEXtreme is an IEEE Student's Committee initiative creating a worldwide programming contest for IEEE Student Branches.

IEEEXtreme is a worldwide contest 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.

The challenge started at 0:00 GMT on Saturday, 8 March, and ends at 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 8 March 2008. Visit the FAQs page for help with general questions.

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 listed here
Registration is now open for the next edition

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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
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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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 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 enrollment 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 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)

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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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Other Information

For sample problems, check the FAQs or visit the site.
For additional information, check the frequently asked questions.
The first edition of IEEEXtreme2006 results are available.
The second edition of IEEEXtreme 2008 results are available.
IEEEXtreme is organized by two teams of volunteer members. To view the list of the 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

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updated 25 April 2008