ACES OUTLINE The Newsletter 2019 | Page 20

18 IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, advised and proctored by an IEEE member, and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. Gihan Jayatilaka, Suren Sritharan, Harshana Sumedha (team biteCode) won the 2nd place from Srilanka and 67th in global rankings at IEEEXtreme version 13.0, which took place on the 19th of October 2019. 19