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  <title>Clemson Quantum Club</title>
  <subtitle>A student-led club at Clemson University where students learn quantum computing at any level through meetings, workshops, hackathons, and research.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-10-30T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Qiskit Fall Fest 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-30T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>November 9–20, 2026. Two weeks of seminars, Qiskit labs, and challenges, marking a decade of quantum computing on the cloud. Clemson Quantum Club hosts it as a Fall Fest PLUS event.</summary>
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    <title>DuQuantum 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-24T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>October 24–25, 2026. Duke University’s first quantum computing hackathon: 24 hours in Durham, run by the Duke Quantum Information Society and HackDuke, where a Clemson Quantum Club team took second place in the Google Quantum AI challenge.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>QHack 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-10-16T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>October 16–23, 2026. Xanadu’s quantum coding competition, built around PennyLane, with Clemson Quantum Club members competing.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>SC Quantathon v3: Predicting Quantum Runtimes at Clemson</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.quantumrings.com/news/sc-quantathon-v3-predicting-quantum-runtimes-at-clemson"/>
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    <updated>2026-09-30T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Quantum Rings recaps its SC Quantathon v3 challenge, where teams built machine learning models to predict how long a quantum circuit takes to run on its simulator. The Wolfpack won.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>SC Quantathon v3</title>
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    <updated>2026-09-25T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>September 25–27, 2026. The third SC Quantathon, hosted by Clemson Quantum Club at the Watt Family Innovation Center, with challenges from Savannah River National Laboratory and Quantum Rings.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Tiger Prowl 2026</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.clemson.edu/studentaffairs/get-involved/csle/current-students/student-organizations/tiger-prowl.html"/>
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    <updated>2026-08-18T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>August 18, 2026. Clemson’s student organization fair, where the club ran a table.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Clemson University Advances Quantum Software Research Through $650,000 Initiative Focused on Real-World Hardware Performance</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/18/clemson-university-advances-quantum-software-research-through-650000-initiative-focused-on-real-world-hardware-performance/"/>
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    <updated>2026-05-18T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>The Quantum Insider covers a $650,000 initiative backing Clemson’s ScaLab under Dr. Rong Ge, funding student quantum research, multi-year Quantathon events, and a statewide student quantum club network.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>YQuantum 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-04-04T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>April 4–5, 2026. Clemson Quantum Club members returned to Yale University’s quantum computing hackathon for a second year.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>CUhackit 2026</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://cuhackit-2026.devpost.com/"/>
    <id>tag:www.clemsonquantum.com,2026:/events/hackathons/cuhackit-2026</id>
    <updated>2026-02-27T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>February 27–28, 2026. Clemson’s student hackathon, with club members competing.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>‘Now is the time’ to invest in quantum computing, Clemson University researchers say</title>
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    <updated>2026-02-18T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Clemson News covers the university’s growing quantum effort, including the student-led Clemson Quantum Club, then about 40 members strong, and its showing at MIT’s iQuHack.</summary>
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    <title>iQuHack 2026</title>
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    <updated>2026-01-30T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>January 30–February 1, 2026. Three Clemson Quantum Club teams went to MIT’s annual quantum hackathon, and one of them took first place in the Superquantum challenge on Clifford+T circuit optimization.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Building quantum talent: how Clemson and SC Quantum are developing the next wave of innovators</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.scquantum.org/news/building-quantum-talent-how-clemson-and-sc-quantum-are-developing-next-wave-application-ready"/>
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    <updated>2025-12-04T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>SC Quantum highlights Clemson’s project-based quantum training, in which students mentored by Dr. Rong Ge work on circuit optimization, error mitigation, and quantum machine learning.</summary>
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    <title>Qiskit Fall Fest 2025</title>
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    <updated>2025-11-05T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>November 5, 2025. The club’s second Qiskit Fall Fest, run with support from IBM Quantum.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>SC Quantathon v2</title>
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    <updated>2025-10-09T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>October 9–12, 2025. Team Tornado-n’t took on the SRNL challenge at SC Quantathon v2, building quantum machine learning models for tornado prediction.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Clemson team goes global after SC Quantathon win</title>
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    <updated>2025-09-02T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>SC Quantum follows the Clemson students who won the first SC Quantathon to the NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in Abu Dhabi, where they competed on multinational teams in April 2025.</summary>
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    <title>NYUAD Hackathon 2025</title>
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    <updated>2025-04-25T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>April 25–27, 2025. Five Clemson students, winners of the SC Quantathon v1 grand prize, competed on multinational teams at the NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in Abu Dhabi.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>YQuantum 2025</title>
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    <updated>2025-04-12T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>April 12–13, 2025. Yale University’s quantum computing hackathon, and the club’s first trip to YQuantum.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Clemson Quantum Club: Driving Education and Innovation in Quantum Computing</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.forwardpathway.us/clemson-quantum-club-driving-education-and-innovation-in-quantum-computing"/>
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    <updated>2025-03-19T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Forward Pathway profiles the club’s meetings in McAdams Hall, its sweep of the first SC Quantathon, and its push for quantum courses at Clemson.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Students hack the future, one qubit at a time</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://news.clemson.edu/students-hack-the-future-one-qubit-at-a-time/"/>
    <id>tag:www.clemsonquantum.com,2026:/news/2025-03-19</id>
    <updated>2025-03-19T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Clemson News profiles the club in its first year: biweekly meetings in McAdams Hall, Play-Doh quantum chess, a sweep of the first SC Quantathon, and top finishes at MIT’s iQuHack.</summary>
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    <title>CUhackit 2025</title>
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    <updated>2025-03-08T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>March 8, 2025. Valentine Mohaugen gave a one-hour talk on quantum computing at CUhackit 2025, Clemson’s student hackathon.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>iQuHack 2025</title>
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    <updated>2025-01-31T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>January 31–February 2, 2025. Twenty-one Clemson Quantum Club students went to MIT’s annual quantum hackathon in Cambridge, MA, and brought home a third-place finish in the Alice &amp; Bob challenge.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Clemson teams sweep SC Quantathon, win trip to international competition</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://news.clemson.edu/clemson-teams-sweep-sc-quantathon-win-trip-to-international-competition/"/>
    <id>tag:www.clemsonquantum.com,2026:/news/2024-12-04</id>
    <updated>2024-12-04T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Clemson sent four teams and 18 students to the first SC Quantathon and won every category, including the grand prize: a trip to the NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in Abu Dhabi.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Qiskit Fall Fest 2024</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240927003515/https://www.ibm.com/quantum/events/fall-fest-2024"/>
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    <updated>2024-11-11T12:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>November 11, 2024. A day of Qiskit workshops, live demos, and time with IBM quantum engineers, hosted by Clemson Quantum Club.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SC Quantathon v1</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.scquantum.org/events/quantathon-v1"/>
    <id>tag:www.clemsonquantum.com,2026:/events/hackathons/sc-quantathon-v1-2024</id>
    <updated>2024-10-10T12:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Hackathon"/>
    <summary>October 10–13, 2024. Clemson teams won every category at the first SC Quantathon, including the grand prize, a trip to the NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in Abu Dhabi.</summary>
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