The Intel Cup Undergraduate Embedded System Electronic Design Contest is an embedded system design invitational contest in China. This contest is held every two years since 2002. The contest focuses on the embedded system design and implementation. And it gives undergraduates a chance to show their creativity and learn teamwork. The influence of the contest is keeping increasing. Now it is an international invitational contest. And some universities from the countries which are advanced in computing begin to take part in the contest. In this paper we describe the experiences in such a contest for embedded system.