• The competition is open to undergraduate student teams consisting of two to four members.

• Each team member must be enrolled in an undergraduate program at the accredited higher education institution that the team member will represent.

• Each team needs to have a faculty advisor from their home institution.

• Student teams will register for the competition under the name of their faculty advisor.

• All participating students are expected to present their work during the conference to receive the participation certificates.

Phase One:

• Data and questions for the first phase of the competition will be made available to registered teams on February 1, 2024.

• Student teams, working at their home institutions, will analyze the dataset to develop solutions to the phase-one questions.

• Each team will need to prepare and submit a poster summarizing their analysis and answers to the questions by May 1, 2024.

• Team members will present their posters at the conference poster session on Monday, May 20, 2024. The poster session will be attended by the faculty judging panel and other conference participants.

Phase Two:

• After the poster presentations, teams will be provided with additional questions and data on the same or similar theme and will be asked to present their solutions to the professional judging panel.

• Each team prepares and submits a slide deck summarizing their new analysis and answers to the questions.

Faculty advisors attending the conference will constitute the set of Phase One (Poster Session) judges.

Phase One scores will be based on the ratings given by faculty advisors (advisors will not be asked to evaluate their own team).

The presentations in Phase Two of the competition will be evaluated by a panel of practitioners representing various industries who value business analytics.

A team’s overall score will be determined by a combination of their Phase One and Phase Two scores.