The extreme 24 hour programming competition organized by IEEE – that is IEEExtreme – took place on 24th of October 2009 and brought together more than 700 teams from more than 40 countries.
Team "Powerhouse" composed of the IEEE student members Alexandru Nechifor, Dan Spatarel and Mihai Ciucu took 4th place after 24 challenging hours of non-stop coding. They were proctored by Professor Mihaela Albu, who helped them organize the competition under the umbrella of the student branch "Politehnica" University of Bucharest. The whole team is involved in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
The performance of the three Romanians from the "powerhouse" team is even greater considering that they came in fourth after three teams ("Mora Seekers", "Citrus Celebration" and "Amobear") from Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Thailand, respectively - and therefore they were the best outside region 10.
We are proud to have such a competitive team and obtain such an extraordinary result! Congratulations, "Powerhouse"!
You can also see the results on the official website of the competition:

www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/xtreme/2009results.html. 

www.ieeextreme.org