Anyone in this years CFA challange?

I was wondering if anyone on this forum was planning on participating in this years challenge.

Also, I did a quick search to see all the forum topics under "CFA Challenge" and didn't get anything to recent. If anyone participated in the competition within the last few years, please let me know what to expect and how to best prepare.

thanks!

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Participant from Minnesota here. Got a 3D printer company. Went to their presentation and got a cool iphone case as a gift!

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I've never participated, but from what I understand you're pretty much putting together a SS initiation report. I'd say a great place to start is to get a hold of some SS initiation reports about the specific business and get an idea of the structure of the report as a template for your project.

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