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Join an AWS DeepRacer Student race

After successfully training and evaluating your model in simulation, compare your model's performance to other racers' models by participating in a race. Racing is a great way to get feedback about your model, win awards and prizes, meet other AWS DeepRacer Student community members virtually, hear about opportunities to learn and improve your skills, and have fun. There are two types of student races: student league and community.

A student league race is a monthly virtual competition that all students can join. A student community race is a private race created by an educator or event organizer in the AWS console that students can join by invitation only.

This section discusses how to participate in an AWS DeepRacer Student student league race and student community race.

Join a student league race

In this section, learn how to submit your model to an AWS DeepRacer Student student league race. You can join a race every month by submitting a trained model directly to a student leaderboard. For more information about training models, see Training a reinforcement learning model in AWS DeepRacer Student.

To join a student league race

  1. In the left navigation pane in AWS DeepRacer Student, expand Compete and choose Student league.

  2. The page displays race details and the leaderboard. In the Open races section, choose Enter race to submit a model, or if you haven't already created a model, choose Create model. For more information, see Training a reinforcement learning model in AWS DeepRacer Student.

  3. In the Choose a model to race section, use the dropdown list to choose a model in the Choose a model field.

  4. Choose Join race to submit your model.

  5. Once your model has been evaluated sucessfully against the racing criteria, check the leaderboard to see how your model ranks against other participants.

  6. Optionally, choose Watch to view a video of your car's performance.

  7. Choose Race again to enter another model. The submission quota for each AWS DeepRacer Student League race is 50.

Join a student community race

In this section, learn how to submit your model to an AWS DeepRacer Student student community race. You can join the student community race by receiving an invitation link from your educator or event organizer through email.

To join a student community race

  1. Go to the invitation link and log in to your AWS DeepRacer student account.

  2. Once you are signed in, choose the Enter race button.

  3. In the Choose a model to race dropdown list, select your model to use in the community race.

  4. Choose Enter race to submit your model.

  5. If your model is evaluated sucessfully against the racing criteria, check the leaderboard to see how your model ranks against the models of other participants.

  6. Optionally, choose Watch to view a video of your car's performance.

  7. Choose Race again to enter another model.