IEEEXtreme is a worldwide contest held annually where teams of students compete over 24 hours to solve programming problems. The top prize is a trip for the winning team. It started in 2006 with 47 teams and has grown significantly. In 2009 there were 146 teams from around the world. The contest aims to expand the scope of benefits for IEEE students and have a global, fun and innovative activity.

1. IEEEXtreme 2009 MD Update Lise Johnston August 15 th , 2009

2. What is it? IEEEXtreme is a worldwide contest in which teams of students compete over a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems Who participates? Teams of 2-3 students/graduate students and their proctors Why is it unique? Worldwide, simultaneous, only event IEEE SAC holds in this manner or any other society Top prize is a trip anywhere in the world to the IEEE event of the top team’s choice About the Contest Contest Overview

3. What are we trying to accomplish? Expand the scope of IEEE benefits to include something that immediately appeals to more of IEEE’s technical fields of interest and have a global activity held independent of the student branches. Be innovative Be Global Be FUN About the Contest Contest Overview

4. Started in 2006 as an MGA Student Activities Committee initiative (based on a successful Region 8 event) 1 st event was December 2006 with 47 teams 2 nd event was March 2008 with 130 teams from 33 countries 146 teams of 2-3 participants 70 teams successfully completed at least one problem 14 grads, 318 undergrads 19 females, 353 males About the Contest Contest Overview - History

5. 2008 Participation by Region

6. 2009 Project Organization

7. Member Development About the Contest Student Member Development Partnering with Industry for problems and opportunities -Having a humanitarian perspective on one of the problems – Make efforts to include non-traditional participants A natural fit Community Oriented Professionally Astute Technically Advanced IEEE Technical Programs & Opportunities Technical chapters IEEEXtreme contest Robotics contests Paper contests Technical speakers IEEE Spectrum IEEE Potentials Society Membership IEEE Career Programs & Opportunities Job Fairs ‘ Soft-skill’ seminars Industry connections Engineers Week IEEE Public Programs & Opportunities Humanitarian initiatives President’s Change the World competition Future Cities Engineers w/o Borders Pre-University activities

8. Updates - Promotion IEEEXtreme ad developed – available in pdf on website: www.ieee.org/xtreme First ad in July/August issue of Potentials magazine & WIE Magazine IEEEXtreme flyer in MD kits to all Student Branches and Sections in August 2009 Banners to appear on IEEE.tv, ieee.org, student web site and the Computer Society web site Contact our team at: [email_address] with ideas

9. Updates - Promotion IEEEXtreme should also be used to drive new student membership. Volunteers are needed to help recruit new members, form teams and new student branches at schools/universities where IEEE has no current presence. Contact Nick Lehotzky at [email_address] and Elizabeth Johnston at [email_address] if you are interested in helping to champion a local effort or perhaps you have a school you would like to suggest.

10. Organizing Team - Volunteers ieeextreme@ieee.org* Elizabeth Johnson, General Chair* Pedro Guerrero, Chief Judge* Luka Lugaric* Matthew Erickson* Marko Delimar* Andreas Koltes* Ricardo Machado* Ricardo Varela* Staff Laura Durrett, MGA Student Services* Christine Eldridge, MGA Student Services* John Day, MGA Director – Membership Development Elyn Perez, MGA Membership Development Nick Lehotsky, MGA Membership Development *included in email list 2009 Project Organization Project Team

11. 2009 Project Organization TechnicalTeam Technical Team - Volunteers [email_address] Elizabeth Johnston, General Chair* Pedro Guerrero, Chief Judge* Matt Erickson Andreas Koltes Francisco Câmara Pereira Christophe Hannosset Saman Taghavi Zargar Artur Dias Ali Mirtar Milan Popovic Valentin Gheorghita Gil Mueller Oded Margalit Dimitrios Lyras Giorgos Mixail Szymon Wasik Eugene Khusid, MGA Information Management Staff (contest automation) Khanh Luu, MGA Information Management Staff

12. WE THANK YOU Thank you ! Questions ?