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Digilent Design Contest 15th Edition

The Digilent Design Contest is an international student hardware design competition open to all students who are passionate about electronics, digital design and electrical engineering in general. The competition gives students the opportunity to showcase and improve their technical and creative skills and face new challenges in developing projects using the latest technologies.

Digilent Design Contest Europe Region has reached its 15th Edition, with a rich history behind, many interesting and cool projects along the years, many smart and competitive participants, as well as appreciated advisers and targets students from all over Europe. It is held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in May 2019.

See the Previous Contests page for editions starting 2012.

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The Challenge is to develop innovative, interesting, cool projects using Digilent products.
Cash prizes will be awarded and all the finalists keep the hardware they previously received from Digilent for implementing the projects.

Registration and Participation

The 2018 edition's registration opens on October 8th.
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The contest is open to all level students - Undergraduate, Master, PhD.

The event is live, with participants presenting their projects in mid-May 2019 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 
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Why registering to a live competition?
- you have the opportunity to meet fellow students from other universities and share information with them
- you have the opportunity to meet industry representatives and receive feedback from the jury
- once accepted in the live competition, you will receive your very own free hardware if you attend the live presentations
- you have the chance to evaluate your skills and knowledge based on the event itself and the feedback the organizers will provide after the competition closes

- you have the chance to later apply for internship at the organizing companies
- you can get to travel and meet new people, visit new places
- you will get Participant Certificates, and Winners Certificates if the case to demonstrate and acknowledge your effort in coming to Cluj and meet the jury face to face.


For details of last years' winners, and a selection of entries, please see the Previous Contests page

For more information, please contact contesteu@digilentinc.com
You can download the Event Poster, and share it to your university!


Timeline

October 8, 2018                                             Contest announcement, registration begins
October 8 - November 17, 2018                    Early enrollment period
December 1 – 15, 2018   
                               Hardware distribution for the early enrolled teams
November 18 - December 31, 2018              Second enrollment period
January 15, 2019                                           Second hardware distribution process begins 
January 1 - January 20, 2019                       Third enrollment period
January 20, 2019                                           Registration ends, third hardware distribution process begins
January 31, 2019                                           Enrollment acceptance process ends
April 8, 2019                                                   Pre-evaluation submission deadline
May 5, 2019                                                    Final projects submission
May 11-12, 2019                                             Final presentations in Cluj-Napoca, Romania


Note: This is a tentative timeline and it might be subject to change.
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