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The IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition
The IEEE Presidents’
Change the World Competition is a contest designed to recognize students who
identify a real-world problem, apply engineering, science, computing and
leadership skills to solve it, and, thereby, benefit humanity or their
community.
The IEEE Presidents’
Change the World Competition is being held in conjunction with IEEE’s 125th
Anniversary celebration.
Eligibility:
Participants may compete
as an individual or as a team.
Individuals:
Individuals who compete must be IEEE Student Members.
Teams: Teams must include an IEEE Student Member in a
lead role, but may include non-members. Teammates do not need to be from the
same country or region. However, an entry may be submitted to only one Region
for judging.
Individuals or team
members must be IEEE student members at the time their entry is submitted.
The students must play the
primary role in the problem-solving; however, they may receive technical and
financial assistance from others.
Please note that the
intent and spirit of the competition is for the students, not others, to solve a
problem. Persons acting as team mentors or in an mentorship role must limit the
level of support provided to general guidance and must not contribute in any
other form that might be considered original authorship, or in way that may
enable claims of rights or ownership to the submitted entries. In no case will
work-on-behalf of teams or individuals be allowed.
Submissions:
Entries must be submitted
using the form housed on the competition website at
www.ieee125.org/ChangetheWorld, beginning 1 September 2008. Requirements
include the following:
·
Project
title
·
Problem
description
·
Solution
·
Impact on
humanity or a community
·
Primary
leader with name and contact information;
·
Other major
student contributors and their contributions;
·
Other
contributors
(For submission form
click
here)
Selection criteria:
The winners shall be
selected based on the results achieved and their impact on humanity, or, on a
community.
Sustainability,
reusability, transportability of the results to other parts of the world,
entrepreneurship, originality, creativity and leadership shall be important but
secondary evaluation factors.
Selection of the
winners:
Entries will be accepted
between 1 September 2008 and 28 Feb 2009 through the competition website,
www.ieee125.org/ChangetheWorld, where participants will register and submit
their entries.
Contestants are encouraged
to register in advance of submitting their entries.
Submissions will be
evaluated in IEEE’s ten geographic regions by each IEEE Regional Student
Activities Committee. Each committee will select and rank up to five of the
best projects in their region by 30 March 2009.
A global competition
judging committee (appointed by the 2009 IEEE President) will review the entries
selected by the Regional Student Activities Committee and select and rank 15
finalist projects which best meet the competition criteria by 20 April 2009.
These 15 projects will be
posted on the competition website and there will be a campaign to encourage
participative voting for a People’s Choice prize.
The 2008, 2009 and 2010
IEEE presidents will evaluate the 15 projects and select the prize winners by 10
May.
Prizes
Leaders of teams or
individuals whose entries are chosen for the top three prizes will be invited
to receive their prizes* on 18 June at the 2009 Honors Ceremony in Los Angeles
CA, USA. Travel expenses will be provided by the IEEE for winners, if
individuals, or for one representative of each winning team. Travel documents
including passports and visas, if required, are the responsibility of the
winners.
All remaining prizes will
be presented by a local IEEE representative. (IEEE Region Director or a designee
such as the IEEE Student Activities Chair, a Section Chair or a Student Branch
Counselor.) Prizes to winning teams will be split equally among the team’s
registered student members*. Winners are encouraged but not required to use the
funds for an IEEE related purpose, such as furthering their project or traveling
to IEEE conferences.
IEEE Student Humanitarian Supreme US$10,000
IEEE
Distinguished Student Humanitarian
5,000
IEEE Exceptional Student
Humanitarian 2,500
Up to five Outstanding
Student Humanitarian prizes 1,000
People’s Choice Prize
(online vote) 500
*As permitted by law.
Funding source:
The 2009 President’s
discretionary fund
Travel funding provided by
(TBD)
Complete rules and
conditions will be published on the competition website on www.ieee125.org/ChangetheWorld.
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