Can I use Generative AI (ChatGPT, Google Bard, etc....)?
The MWC3 Conference Committee recognize the impressive growth, application, and overall utility of AI in shortening the time to completion of projects both professionally and academically. The use of Generative AI has increased dramatically in recent years. Students, employees, and organizations are leveraging tools such as ChatGPT, DeepMind, Gemini, Copilot, Bard, DALL-E, and Midjourney to supplement their own skillsets and produce greater volumes of work.
With that said, we and our cooperative organizations jointly decided to prohibit/ban the use of Generative AI from MWC3 competitions.
The competitions at MWC3 are primarily focused on and tailored to the knowledge bases and skillsets of undergraduate students from 2 & 4-year schools. The purpose of these competitions is to gauge, test, and present appropriate challenges for this level of student understanding. They also allow students to detect their own deficiencies and strengths. Students will need to possess a solid understanding of the fields they are competing in on their own merits to truly discover where their strengths and weaknesses lie, such that they may better develop themselves for the professional world in which they are seeking careers
Therefore, the usage of Generative AI to assist in the answering, production, and development of student submissions is PROHIBITED from all competitions unless otherwise stated by the individual competitions’ overview and instructions. This includes but is not limited to tools like ChatGPT, DeepMind, Gemini, Copilot, Bard, DALL-E, and Midjourney regardless of whether they are integrated into other pieces of software or standalone. You may not use standalone versions and you must disable any AI that is integrated into other software. Violation of this ban will result in the forfeiture of the competitor in that competition. We reserve the right to examine competition related network traffic data during this event. Certain web domain access may be blocked as well.
What are the competitions like?
In a word - exciting! You will be competing head-to-head with some of the best information systems students in the midwest. The competitions are designed to be accessible to students of all levels while pushing advanced students to the limit. The majority of individuals writing the problem statements have real-world experience that push you to apply your classroom skills to solve realistic problems - just like you will all be doing upon graduation!
When you arrive at the competition room, you will need to get your team checked-in for the competition. Getting checked in and set up will likely take 5-15 minutes depending on the number of participants in each competition. Once all competitors are checked in, you will all have the balance of the competition time to compete the problem statement.
Submissions of your work are done right through the MWC3 website under the "My Competitions" page. Available once logged into the site. Submissions can only be done during the time alloted for the competition. The ability to submit work ends when the competition ends. So, be sure to uploaded you final work early enough to beat the deadline. Submissions can be uploaded to the site as many times as you would like. The most recent one is the one that will get graded. Submissions can only be made from the same network as the conference.
Additional information about each competition and the number of participants in a team as well as the number of total participants can be found by clicking on the image for each competition on the MWC3 website home page located here.
You can view the contest schedule of events on the MWC3 website home page near the bottom of the page or by clicking here. Note that during each time slot at least two contest events are simultaneously in progress. It is only possible to compete in one event per time slot.
Is there a dress code?
The MWC3 Conference is meant to replicate a professional conference. There will be recruiters from our sponsors there to talk to you about internships and jobs. You will want to impress them and your fellow students. With that said, we think that everyone should be dressed in Business Casual attire at a minimum. Attendees may opt to dress in more formal attire if they would like to make a strong impression.