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Are you eligible to participate?

<aside> 💚 Concordia Students

• You must be enrolled in an undergraduate/graduate engineering or computer science program at Gina Cody School of Engineering.

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• You must be minoring in an Engineering or Computer Science program. </aside>

<aside> 💛 Other Universities Students

• You must be enrolled in an Engineering or Computer Science undergraduate program at an institution.

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• You must be minoring in an Engineering or Computer Science undergraduate program. </aside>

<aside> 💙 CEGEP Students

• You must be enrolled in an Engineering or Computer science Technical program at an CEGEP.

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• You must be minoring in an Applied Science Pre-University program at an CEGEP </aside>

General Rules to keep in mind!

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1. Your project must be based on at least one of the three themes given on Saturday, February 8th during the Opening Ceremony.
2. You must have started your project only as of Saturday, February 8th, 2026 at 10 am.
3. The presentation and any materials submitted should be done in English and be consistent in language.
4. The GCES organizing committee reserves the right to make recordings of all presentations and ceremonies related to UpStart. The GCES organizing committee also reserves the right to take pictures and recordings during the event. By registering for the competition, you must allow these images to be posted and made public on GCES social media channels. You must also allow that if you win, GCES reserves the right to display your project the GCES website.
5. If plagiarism of any kind is detected, it will result in expulsion from the competition.
6. You must be REGISTERED, ACCEPTED and CONFIRMED prior to the start of the competition.
7. The official time zone of the event is: Montreal, QC (UTC-5) </aside>