Introduction to IEEEXtreme 15.0 | IEEE BUBT Student Branch
Channel: IEEE BUBT Student Branch
Date: 2021-09-13

On 3rd September, 2021, IEEE BUBT Student Branch (STB03252), IEEE BUBT WIE SB Affinity Group (SBA03252) & IEEE Council on Superconductivity BUBT SB Chapter (SBC03252L) arranged an event on “Introduction to IEEEXtreme”. The speaker of the event, Tarikul Islam Rimon is a student of Department of EEE, BUBT and Tonima Islam is a student of Department of CSE, BUBT.

The main reason of the webinar is to know more about IEEEXtreme and its all criteria, past histories, ambassadors’ program, registration, volunteers and so many things. As we know IEEEXtreme is a global 24-hour Programming competition organized by IEEE. In every hour, participants will get a problem to solve. Problem stages and the difficulty levels will be different. Participants can solve the problems by supporting 25 different programming languages. C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C# are among them. IEEEXtreme is the largest platform to showcase your programming skills to the world. The 1st speaker Tarikul Islam Rimon started by asking a question to audience about what IEEEXtreme is and what the first word comes to our mind when we hear it. Several participants answered by sharing their thoughts. Then he explained what IEEEXtreme is and talked about procedures of the competition during the competition day. He also explained the format of the competition and the points getting criteria deeply. After that he talked about the eligibility, team composition, impact of IEEEXtreme, prizes, practice community and said that the participants of the competition can experience the confidence in relation to personal coding skills and get the prestige and bragging rights depending on the final standing of their team at the end of the competition. Then the 2nd speaker Tonima Islam started by talking about volunteers support in the IEEEXtreme and gave a clear concept about the PR ambassador program and engagement between students, proctors and IEEE Branches. After that she explained how a local student branch can support in the competition. In the end, she announced the date of the upcoming competition IEEEXtreme 15.0 and the deadline of the registration. She also said to follow the IEEEXtreme website and Facebook page to reach more awareness about IEEEXtreme.

The audience were really responsive. Through this virtual webinar, the participants got a chance to know about the topic and how to use it for future aspects. It was indeed a successful webinar.

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