Region 8 Student Activities Committee

IEEE Croatia GOLD and IEEE Student Branch Zagreb are organizing STEP (Student Transition and Elevation Partnership) workshop entitled

STEP one

that will be held on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 17:00 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia.

Its main goal is to bring together students, professionals and alumni. Representatives from the industry will share their experience and thoughts about onset of a career in short talks and students will have the opportunity to meet them personally during networking social between the talks. Student members will also have the opportunity to meet GOLD members and discuss the benefits of IEEE membership after graduation and during the transition to professionals.

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The IEEE Xtreme Challenge is a global 24-hour online contest where IEEE Student Branch teams solve a challenging set of programming problems.
This year the competition starts on the 24th October at 00:00:00 UTC.

The competitors can win:

• Fame: Competing in the world's most Xtreme programming contest is a big deal -- winning means you get unlimited bragging rights.
• Fortune: Grand prize is a trip to the IEEE Conference of your choice, anywhere in the world. Other prizes include cool gear and prizes from sponsors.

So if you are a Student Branch get ready to organise the competition: find a room with an internet connection, a proctor (who should be an IEEE Member of higher membership grade), maybe some food and drinks for your teams and let the students know about the IEEE Xtreme Challenge!

Teams can be made of up to three participants that need to be IEEE student or graduate student members of your IEEE Student Branch. If you know of some good student programmers that are not yet IEEE members, encourage them to join IEEE so that they can compete in one of your teams!
Note that each Student Branch can have as many teams as it wants. Last year Region 8 had 57 teams competing in the IEEE Xtreme Challenge (over 130 teams in total in the world). How about doubling this number this year?

To register teams, download publicity material and get more details about the competition visit: www.ieee.org/xtreme

On September 9-10 2009, the IEEE Student Branch Ilmenau will hold the first "IEEE Power and Energy Summer Summit" which should become an annual event with changing location. The main objective is to bring representatives from the industry and students preparing their bachelor or master thesis together. The event will be divided into two sections. The first part will be a workshop. There the students will have the opportunity to present their current work and the representatives will show how innovative and attractive their companies are. During a special reception before dinner, GOLD and student members will get the possibility to talk about the transition to young professionals and the benefits IEEE could provide.

On the basis of this general information exchange the participants will be able to get in touch during the second part of the event. A sightseeing tour in Ilmenau, a visit of the labs of the Technical University, a dinner and a technical trip to the pump storage power plant in Goldisthal are planned for this second half of the event.

Learn more: http://www2.tu-ilmenau.de/ieee/index.php?page=294

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To congratulate the high contribution of the IEEE members on the evolution of humanity, and celebrate a great achievement: 125 years of Engineering the Future, the IEEE Student Branch of Insttituo Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon and the IEEE Student Branch of Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco announce the 1st Iberian IEEE Student Branch Congress (ISBC).

Its main goal: bringing together, for the first time in IEEE history, representatives from all IEEE Student Branches in Portugal and Spain, as well as other students and guests from around Region 8 and hopefully the rest of the IEEE world.

The 1st Iberian IEEE Student Branch Congress (ISBC) will be held at the IST Taguspark Campus, Lisbon, from the 9^th to the 11^th of October 2009, and will in part be co-located with the 93^rd IEEE Region 8 Committee meeting, also to take place in Lisbon.

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