BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Colombo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T084407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+0530 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20060415T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0600 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3SA;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:+0530 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250130T080819Z UID:EB271F6C-A1C1-4EA6-A9CB-A092C7B4F581 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20231028T053000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20231029T083000 DESCRIPTION:Bittopia is the coding arcade for IEEEXtreme 17.0 for Universit y of Peradeniya where teams who are competing are invited to get together and participate in person. This is the first time in years that IEEEXtreme is happening physically at University of Peradeniya. A program titled Xtr eme.Pera-23 which included awareness sessions\, social media campaigns\, p ractice and training programs that was in action since august had led the way to bittopia through 3 main phases as awareness\, training/practice and facilitation/encouragement. It consisted of a mini programming challenge series each weekend to prepare the stage for Bittopia encouraging more par ticipants to take part in IEEEXtreme 17.0.\n\nBittopia supported about 10 teams participating in the competition in both in-person and remotely. The proctors were present and Dr. Ruwan Ranaweera explained the rules and ins tructions wishing the contestants all the best as well. The event spanned for the whole 24 hours duration physically where the competitors were prov ided with all the facilities required such as power\, connectivity\, refre shments and meals for the time duration. Also there were certain quick act ivities arranged for the teams to enagage in when needed to take a break o r a quick change of attention.\n\nThe end of Bittopia was composed with an award presentation where the best performing teams were awarded with appr eciational cash prizes and valuable certificates. Eng. Ranjan Kulathunga f rim Zone24x7 (Pvt) Ltd. who is the bronze sponsor for the program graced t he occation with his presence. Specially the team Insomniacs who won the n ational championship was awarded during the ceremony. All the proceedings of the event ended by concluding the award ceremony at about 8:30 AM in SL time (UTC+5:30 hours)\n\nCo-sponsored by: Sri Lanka Section Student Activ ities Committee\n\nAgenda: \nDay 1 - October 28\, 2023\n\n05:30 : INITIATI ON\n\n08:00 : LIGHT BREAKFAST\n\n08:15 : PROCTOR’S ADDRESS\n\n08:30 : EN D OF PROCTOR’S ADDRESS\n\n11:00 : REFRESHMENTS ROUND 1\n\n13:00 : LUNCH BREAK\n\n16:30 : REFRESHMENTS ROUND 2\n\n19:30 : UNLIMITED NESCAFE ISLES O PEN\n\n21:00 : DINNER BREAK\n\nDay 2 - October 29\, 2023\n\n00:00 : UNLIMI TED SNACKS\n\n04:00 : MORNING TEA\n\n05:30 : TERMINATION\n\n07:30 : AWARD CEREMONY\n\nBldg: Activity Room\, New building\, FOE\, Department of Engin eering Management \, Faculty of Engineering\, University of Peradeniya\, P eradeniya\, Sri Lanka\, Sri Lanka\, 20400 LOCATION:Bldg: Activity Room\, New building\, FOE\, Department of Engineeri ng Management \, Faculty of Engineering\, University of Peradeniya\, Perad eniya\, Sri Lanka\, Sri Lanka\, 20400 ORGANIZER:ieeepdn@gmail.com SEQUENCE:181 SUMMARY:Bittopia: IEEEXtreme Host Program at University of Peradeniya URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/397468 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Bittopia is the coding arcade for IEEEXtre me 17.0 for University of Peradeniya where teams who are competing are inv ited to get together and participate in person. This is the first time in years that IEEEXtreme is happening physically at University of Peradeniya. A program titled Xtreme.Pera-23 which included awareness sessions\, socia l media campaigns\, practice and training programs that was in action sinc e august had led the way to bittopia through 3 main phases as awareness\, training/practice and facilitation/encouragement. It consisted of a mini p rogramming challenge series each weekend to prepare the stage for Bittopia encouraging more participants to take part in IEEEXtreme 17.0.</p>\n<p>Bi ttopia supported about 10 teams participating in the competition in both i n-person and remotely. The proctors were present and Dr. Ruwan Ranaweera e xplained the rules and instructions wishing the contestants all the best a s well. The event spanned for the whole 24 hours duration physically where the competitors were provided with all the facilities required such as po wer\, connectivity\, refreshments and meals for the time duration. Also th ere were certain quick activities arranged for the teams to enagage in whe n needed to take a break or a quick change of attention.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Th e end of Bittopia was composed with an award presentation where the best p erforming teams were awarded with appreciational cash prizes and valuable certificates. Eng. Ranjan Kulathunga frim Zone24x7 (Pvt) Ltd. who is the b ronze sponsor for the program graced the occation with his presence. Speci ally the team Insomniacs who won the national championship was awarded dur ing the ceremony. &nbsp\;All the proceedings of the event ended by conclud ing the award ceremony at about 8:30 AM in SL time (UTC+5:30 hours)</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><span style="text-decoration: underline\;">Day 1 - October 28\, 2023</span></p>\n<p>05:30 : INITIATION</p>\n<p>08:00 : LIG HT BREAKFAST</p>\n<p>08:15 : PROCTOR&rsquo\;S ADDRESS</p>\n<p>08:30 : END OF PROCTOR&rsquo\;S ADDRESS</p>\n<p>11:00 : REFRESHMENTS ROUND 1</p>\n<p>1 3:00 : LUNCH BREAK</p>\n<p>16:30 : REFRESHMENTS ROUND 2</p>\n<p>19:30 : UN LIMITED NESCAFE ISLES OPEN</p>\n<p>21:00 : DINNER BREAK</p>\n<p><span styl e="text-decoration: underline\;">Day 2 - October 29\, 2023</span></p>\n<p> 00:00 : UNLIMITED SNACKS</p>\n<p>04:00 : MORNING TEA</p>\n<p>05:30 : TERMI NATION</p>\n<p>07:30 : AWARD CEREMONY</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR