Your professor, lecturer or whoever teaches you, enters their student team into the Challenge. If you think your professors, lecturers or tutors might be interested in signing their classes up for the Challenge, let them know about this opportunity! Your professor can obtain more information in the Academic Guide (http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/students_guides.html) which is filled with information your professor will want to know to decide if the Challenge is right for their class.
The Challenge is open to any university, any discipline, at the graduate or undergraduate level in any country.
Timeline ....
Registration closes: January 22, 2010
Challenge starts: January 28, 2010
Challenge ends: June 4, 2010
Winners announced: July 2010