STUDENT COMPETITIONS
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE IF YOU ARE COMING ONLY FOR THE STUDENT COMPETITIONS
- Teams coming solely for the student competitions should be composed only of IEEE student members and should register at the Student rate ($120)
- This rate only gives you one meal, the Award Banquet – no other meals are included (you can add meals to your ticket if you want to, but there are also other venues around the hotel)
- ADVISORS that accompany the team and are there only to supervise the team during the event, can register for FREE using this option in the registration website: ‘Other – Spectactor for the Hardware Competition ($0)’
- This rate does not include meals, so we suggest for Advisors to include meal tickets for the events you may want to attend (i.e. Welcome Reception and Award Banquet)
SoutheastCon Student Program: SoutheastCon 2024 Student Program
Join the SoutheastCon 2024 Discord at: https://discord.gg/VGaEvWCZpS
Hardware Competition (Main)
1st Place – Clemson
2nd Place – High Point University
3rd Place – Virginia Tech and Bob Jones University (tied)
Circuit Design Competition (Main)
1st Place – Virginia Tech
2nd Place – University of Kentucky
3rd Place – University of Alabama in Huntsville
Circuit Design Competition (Open)
1st Place – University of Kentucky
Networking Competition
1st Place – Brandon Holt
2nd Place – Sarah Fernandes
3rd Place – Jared Hassman
Ethics Competition
1st Place – University of Florida
2nd Place – North Carolina State University
3rd Place – Tennessee Tech
Software Competition (Main)
1st Place – University of Florida
2nd Place – Mercer University
3rd Place – Christian Brothers University
Software Competition (Open)
1st Place – University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Promotional Design
1st Place – UNCC
2nd Place – University of Kentucky
3rd Place – Western Carolina University
Hardware Design (Main)
1st Place – UNC Asheville
2nd Place – Virginia Tech – JSU
3rd Place – Bob Jones University
Hardware Design Competition (Open)
1st Place – Virginia Tech
2nd Place – University of Kentucky (Stewart)
3rd Place – University of Kentucky (Barnes)
Outreach Competition
1st Place – University of Florida
2nd Place – Virginia Tech
3rd Place – North Carolina State University
Presentation Competition – Undergrad
1st Place (Main) – Corey Dunn, Jacksonville State University
1st Place (Open) – Noah Oppermann, Harding University
Presentation Competition – Grad
1st Place – Sneha Narasimhan, North Carolina State University
2nd Place – Ruthba Yasmin, University of South Alabama
3rd Place – Vincent Kwao, North Carolina A&T State University
Hardware Competition Rules
Latest Edition: 5 September, 2023
Hardware Registration is open! Teams have until
February 18th February 14th to register their team.
Documents:
Download Latest Hardware Competition Rules (Ver. 5.6.1)
Download Timer Wiring and Code PDF
Download CAD Files
Download Field Assembly Files
Download Game Pieces STL Files
FAQs
How can you start preparing for IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 at this time?
- Start fundraising.
- Find if there are grants at your university to apply for and get that out of the way.
- Ask your department if they are willing to help you with.
- Are there ways in your college or in your department to “volunteer” and getting the promise for sponsorship out of it (Help setting up the career fair or similar things).
- Look for companies in your community which might be able to help you with arts/tools/machine time/financially. start talking to them.
- Finally, reach out to your section and build a relationship. If you do your reporting to IEEE the section gets money for you. Make sure to ask how you can apply for this money to help you travel/participate in IEEE SoutheastCon 2024.
Software Competition Rules
Latest Edition: 16 January, 2024
Software Competition registration is now open! Teams have until February 18th February 14th to register.
Documents
- Software Competition Rules: Software Competition Rules (PDF)
The IEEE Region 3 Software Competition, will be provide IEEE students with a software challenge, all material needed to complete the challenge, a set of deliverables, and timeline at the start of the competition. Students will then use the set amount of time to solve the challenge and complete as many deliverables as possible to the best of their ability.
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Circuit Design Competition Rules
Latest Edition: 16 January, 2024
Circuit Design Competition registration is now open! Teams have until February 18th February 14th to register.
Circuit Design
Documents
- Circuit Design Competition Rules: Circuit Design Rules (pdf)
The IEEE Region 3 Circuit Design Competition will provide participating students with a circuit design challenge, all material needed to complete the challenge, a set of deliverables, and timeline at the start of the competition. Students will then use the set amount of time to solve the challenge and complete as many deliverables as possible to the best of their ability.
This competition has reached the max number of teams and so registration for this competition has closed
SoutheastCon Ethics 2024 Rules: SoutheastCon 2024 Ethics Rules
Below are the key dates for this competition
Key Dates
January 1st , 2024 Registration for the Ethics Competition opens. Information on how to register for the Ethics competition will be posted on the Southeast Con 2024 website in advance of this date.
March 1st, 2024 Competition case will be released and teams can start working on the competition deliverables.
March 15th, 2024 Teams submit their presentation video and slides by 11 PM EST.
March 22nd – March 23rd Teams will be on site at Southeast Con and will meet with judges for a 30 minute Q&A about their deliverables/presentation at their assigned time slot. Time slots will be set up with the teams in advance. Make sure to be checking emails to see when to set up a time slot.
Outreach Competition Rules: Outreach Rules
Registration for this competition will close February 18th February 14th
Registration for this competition is open! Use this link to register and submit your abstract by January 31st:
The SoutheastCon 2024 Presentation Competition encourages students to present ongoing research, capstone projects, personal projects or any topic of your choice. This competition places emphasis on the participants’ effectiveness in communicating scientific ideas to an audience. This competition is totally separate from the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) paper presentation competition.
The research presented in this presentation competition will NOT be published in IEEE Xplore and you are at liberty to choose a topic of interest for presentation. If you already have an existing paper in EDAS for review then you are not allowed to use the same topic/content for this presentation competition but you can use a slight modification of your EDAS submitted work.
The presentation competition will have two categories: graduate and undergraduate presentations. Each category will have three awards: First, Second, and Third.
NOTE: to be eligible for participation in this competition you must submit the abstract using the link provided (TBD at this point). Your abstract should not have been used in EDAS and should only have ONE student author (NO additional co-authors are allowed).
Also note that the one-page abstract will NOT be published anywhere.
Your abstract should not be longer than one page and written using the IEEE template. Please submit your abstract using the Google Form.
Students will be required to provide a 5-minute presentation of their work at the conference during an assigned time slot. All presentations will be carried out in person at the venue.
The deadline to submit the one-page abstract is January 31st, 2024 at 11:59PM Eastern US time.
Please direct your questions in regards to the presentation competition to either Varadraj Gurupur (varadrajprabhu@ieee.org) or Bailey Heyman (bailey.u.heyman@gmail.com).
Teams who compete in this competition will have 10 bonus points added to their score for each round in the hardware competition.
SoutheastCon 2024 Student Promotional Design Competition Rules
Teams become automatically registered for the promotional design competition when they submit their entry into the promotional design competition.
Teams have until 12 PM on Saturday March 23rd to submit for this competition. If a team is submitting to get bonus points in the hardware competition, they will receive the bonus points within 2 hours of submitting to the promotional design competition. Therefore, it is recommended for students to submit for the promotional design competition by 10 PM on Friday March 22nd to make sure they start the hardware competition with their bonus points.
Hardware Design Competition Rules Link: Hardware Design Rules
Hardware Design Competition Template: Hardware Design Template
Hardware Design Competition Registration Link: Hardware Design Registration
Hardware Design Submission Link: Hardware Design Submission
Registration for this competition will close February 18th February 14t
Teams who compete in this competition will have 10 bonus points added to their score for each round in the hardware competition.