Expo and Awards Ceremony

The end-of-year project Expo and Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Alamos April 26-27, 2010.

All participants submitting final reports by the first Wednesday in April are invited to the Expo and Awards Ceremony at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Note: Every team attending the Expo will be required to give a presentation not to exceed a half-hour on their work to a panel of judges on Monday, April 26th. A display board summarizing your work will be mandatory as well, and using a computer during your presentation is optional.

Teams, Register for the Expo and Awards Ceremony!

General Information

• 2010 Expo Information
• A description of the Expo.
• Learn about the Awards and Scholarships presented during the Awards Ceremony.

Directions/Housing/Parking

• Directions and Map to the Hotels, Expo, and Awards Ceremony
• Hotel arrangements
• Best Western Hilltop House Hotel
  (Artesia, Bloomfield, Deming, Hatch, Melrose, Navajo Prep, Quemado, Red Mountain, Silver, Tibbetts)
• Comfort Inn
  (AIMS@UNM, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque High, CEPi1, Cleveland, Edgewood, Freedom, Hope Christian, Jackson Mid, Manzano, Media Arts, Sandia Prep)

Schedules of Events

• Tentative Schedule of events for the Expo and Awards Ceremony Activities
• Finalist Team Schedule
• Scholarship Applicant Schedule
• Schedule for the Expo presentations
• Tour schedule

Judging Information

• A description of the judging of the finalist teams.
• Judging Criteria that will be used during the final judging.
• Display Board Requirements
• Judges' rubric for the Expo judging.

Awards Ceremony

• Slide Show of the Expo, shown before the Awards Ceremony began
• Awards Ceremony Pictures
• The Awards Ceremony PowerPoint Presentation

Publicity

Los Alamos National Laboratory Coverage

• Pre Event Press Release
• Melrose High trio named top team in 20th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge
• All the Winners of the 2009-2010 Supercomputing Challenge

Other sources

• KOB.com, Winning NM project models wildfire behavior, 4/27/2010
• New Mexico Business Weekly, Melrose team tops supercomputing challenge
• Albuquerque Journal, A1,Teens Give Melrose A Claim to Fame
  Albuquerque Journal, A4, Melrose Teens Win Computer Challenge
• Albuquerque Journal, C1, Computers Put Melrose On the Map
• CNJonline, 04/27/2010, Melrose students win supercomputing challenge
• CNJonline, 05/12/2010, Melrose students win supercomputing challenge, part 2
• Fire Engineering, Melrose Teens Blaze Past Stiff Competition
• Mobile Barcode, 4/28/2010, Computers Put Melrose On the Map: Teens Take Challenge's Top Prize With Wildfire Model
• Los Alamos Monitor, 4/28/2010, Supercomputing standouts
• HPCwire, 05/07/2010, Winners Announced for LANL's New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge

Information about last year's expo may be viewed in our archive