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Good news everyone!

@cm-steem has set up three BOINC team challenges hosted by Gridcoin in January! 

A team challenge is a friendly competition among teams that focuses on specific BOINC projects.  These competitions present a great opportunity to flex our team's computational muscles.  They also give us a nice way to reach out to and meet the communities of other teams.  Think of them as BOINC pick-up-games!

The prize is science, and in the words of @dutch, the winner is the project.  The three projects are SETI@home, World Community Grid, and Asteroids@home.  To participate, direct your computations at the appropriate project during its week of competition.

<h3><center>Competition 1 - SETI@home</center></h3>

**When:** January 6th - January 13th
**Where:** SETI@Home BOINC project
**Who:** As of this posting, there are 10 teams ready to go! Details [here](https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/977).
**How:** Sign up for the BOINC project, [SETI@home](https://setiathome.berkeley.edu), join a participating team (Gridcoin for us!) and run tasks for the project between the dates of January 6th and January 13th.

SETI@Home was launched as a distributed computing project in May 1999 by the Berkeley SETI Research Center. It operates by packing data recorded in the 2.5 MHz wide band of the SERENDIP IV instrument into “work units” to be analyzed by the idle processing power of volunteers. After analyzation, the completed work units are returned to SETI@Home servers in California. This concept was developed further in 2002 and resulted in the BOINC software being released in 2004.  We owe a huge thanks to SETI@home for catalyzing the creation of the BOINC system we all know and love today!

<h3><center>Competition 2 - World Community Grid</center></h3>

**When:** January 14th - January 21st
**Where:** World Community Grid
**Who:** As of this posting, there are 10 teams ready to go! Details [here](https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/978).
**How:** Sign up for the BOINC project, [World Community Grid](https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action), join a participating team (Gridcoin for us!) and run tasks for the project between the dates of January 14th and January 21st.

For information on WCG, I'll direct you to @jedigeiss's write-up found [here](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jedigeiss/projects-and-gridcoin-world-community-grid-help-science-hilf-der-wissenschaft-german-english).

<h3><center>Competition 3 - Asteroids@home</center></h3>

**When:** January 22nd - January 29th
**Where:** Asteroids@home
**Who:** As of this posting, there are 10 teams ready to go! Details [here](https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/979).
**How:** Sign up for the BOINC project, [Asteroids@home](http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/), join a participating team (Gridcoin for us!) and run tasks for the project between the dates of January 22nd and January 29th.

For information on Asteroids@home, I'll direct you to @jedigeiss's write-up found [here](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jedigeiss/projects-and-gridcoin-asteroids-home-help-science-hilf-der-wissenschaft-german-english).

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Prime your processors, warm up your power supplies, and charge your batteries -- we've got ourselves a BOINC-off!

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Thank you, cm, for setting these up!

For more information on past and future BOINC team challenges, visit the BOINCstats page [here](https://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/overview).