It's easy to get lost in a class of so many students, and it's easy for the course staff to lose track of motivated and outstanding students. As a way of finding and getting to know some of these students, we have instituted the Project 1 Contest.

The contest applies to Project 1 only. We will select the four best projects as contest winners. Admittedly the decision of which projects are "best" is by nature subjective, but we will do our best to select the projects that we believe are the most interesting, novel, challenging, and robust. The benefits of winning are:

• You will be given the option of discussing and demonstrating your project to the entire class during a lecture.
• You will receive a 10% boost in your Project 1 grade.