Awards expo Tuesday
More than 250 New Mexico middle- and high-school students and their teachers are at the Laboratory today and Tuesday for judging and the awards ceremony in the 18th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
The goal of the year-long event is to increase knowledge of science and computing; expose students and teachers to computers and applied mathematics; and instill enthusiasm for science in middle- and high-school students, their families and communities. Any New Mexico high-school or middle-school student is eligible to enter the Supercomputing Challenge.
Forty-seven teams are involved in the competition, said David Kratzer of High Performance Computing Systems (HPC-3), Laboratory coordinator of the Supercomputing Challenge. Another 40 Growing Up Thinking Scientifically (GUTS) teams also are presenting projects that they have been working on for several months, he said.
Lab employees can view posters that describe students' computational science projects this afternoon at the Santa Clara Gallery on the second floor of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. Employees also can watch judging of finalist teams on LABNET Channel 9. Check the Supercomputing Challenge Web page to find out when teams will be presenting.
While at Los Alamos, students will present their projects and take part in tours, talks and demonstrations with Laboratory technical staff members.
Student projects will be recognized during an awards ceremony from 9 to 11 a.m., Tuesday at the Church of Christ, 2323 Diamond Drive in Los Alamos.
Read more about the challenge in the April issue of Currents magazine and in the April 15 Daily NewsBulletin.
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