CFA Institute Research Challenge Relevance

I am a member on my school's CFA Research team and recently presented. I have brought it up while networking and a number of people had no idea what this competition was. Can anyone provide any information as to how well known the CFA Research Challenge is? Do people care about it or is it just another club/line to put on a resume? It's been a great experience for me regarless but I was just curious.

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At target/semi-target schools students tend to not participate (or know about it) as the internal competitions from clubs are more relevant. If you come from a non-target it will help as a resume booster and how well you can spin it off at interviews. For some reason it's somewhat important in Canada from what I've observed.

 
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