The Cyber Challenge will be within traditional capture the flag (CTF) fashion. It is composed of a series of jeopardy-style questions, testing participants in a variety of CS proficiencies.
Eligibility
The Student Cyber Challenge invites the IEEE Student Branches and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Chapters at universities throughout IEEE Region 5 to compete. The teams must submit their Intent to Compete form to be eligible to compete.
- Team Size: 2 – 3 students
- Maximum number of teams: 10
Teams are selected from the submitted pool on a first come first served basis. Selected teams will be notified to register for the R5 conference and participate in the competition. Team substitutions are at the discretion of the competition chair.
The first team from a school to submit an Intent to Compete form will be given preference and subsequent teams from that school submitting an Intent to Compete form will be waitlisted.
Rules & Guidelines
The contest will begin at 10:00 am on the event day and go on until 3:00 pm, with a working lunch. Following are the general rules for this year’s cyber challenge
- Do not manipulate or hack the scoreboard or other competition infrastructure.
- Do not breach or manipulate another participant’s game.
- Do not share challenge solutions with other participants not on your team.
Student Registration
If you are interested in competing as a Team:
- You must complete the Intent to Compete form to declare your intention to participate by the Intent to Compete Deadline.
- If you are notified that your team has been accepted to attend the R5 Student Competitions in person, your team members must Register for the conference by the Student Competition Registration Deadline or your team may be removed from the competition and any waitlisted teams will be given the opportunity to compete in your place.
See Registration for information on the registration fees.
Contact
We use Discord as our primary means of communicating updates about individual competitions. Click on the button below to join the R5 Discord Server. Inside the server you can find channels for all the competitions. The competition chairs and volunteers are members of the channel, and will respond to any questions you might have.
We strongly recommend the participants to be part of the Discord server, as all the updates regarding individual competitions will be communicated via their corresponding channels (including during the day of the event).
