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Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Fall 2015 Knovel Academic Challenge Pre-registration is Live!
This past spring, thousands of STEM students from over five hundred institutions around the world took part in the Knovel Academic Challenge (KAC), an immersive problem-set based competition built from real-life engineering exercises and scenarios. We are thrilled to announce pre-registration is now live for the free 5-week Fall Knovel Academic Challenge. Please note, in order to participate this fall, all students and faculty must register (or re-register if you participated in the spring).

The game launches on Monday, September 28 at 12:00:00 AM PST and continues through Sunday, November 1 at 11:59:59 PM PST. Share The Challenge with your STEM community!
What is the Challenge?
The Knovel Academic Challenge is a weekly problem-set based global game for undergraduate and graduate engineering students. The first problem-set will go live on Monday, September 28. On every following Monday for 5 weeks -- until Sunday, November 1 -- a new problem-set containing 7-10 multiple choice questions will be posted.
Over the span of The Challenge, students will log in with their KAC credentials to solve that week's problem-set, and earn points based on their performance while competing for weekly and grand prizes. Weekly winners will be announced each week, and grand prize winners will be announced at the end of the 5 weeks.

*Submission time of problem sets is not a factor when choosing prize winners in the case of a tie.
Compete for Points & Prizes
Weekly Prize: The student with the highest points from that week will receive a $100 Amazon gift card
1st Place Grand Prize: The student with the highest accumulation of points at the end of The Challenge will receive an Apple iPad Air II with Wi-Fi 16Gb
2nd Place Grand Prize: The student with the second highest accumulation of points at the end of The Challenge will receive a SONOS PLAY:1
Challenge within The Challenge: The students with the highest score from each of the top ten scoring schools will each receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card
Register to Play
What is Knovel?
Knovel is an engineering decision-support solution that enables engineers to solve problems faster. Widely used across higher education STEM communities, the tool provides general reference and best practice insights, process and design applications, material and substance properties data, and equations for specific engineering disciplines.

Through its cloud-based platform with powerful search and interactive analytical tools, engineers can confidently find answers to technical questions through its trusted content, validated equations, and materials and substances data from more than 120 providers.
Register to Play


If you  have any questions or feedback, please contact us knovelac@elsevier.com.

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