Expo and Awards Ceremony

The end-of-year project Expo and Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Alamos April 22-23, 2013.

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 22nd. A display board summarizing your work will be mandatory as well, and using a computer during your presentation is optional.

General Information

• 2013 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
• Comfort Inn
  (Artesia, Centennial, Down to Earth School, Grants, Melrose, Mesa Mid, Portales Junior High, Quemado, Red Mountain Mid, Saturday Sci & Math, School of Dreams Acad)
• Hampton Inn & Suites
  (AIMS@UNM, Albuquerque Acad, Annunciation Catholic School, Cleveland, Edgewood Elementary, Edgewood Mid, Jackson Mid, La Cueva, Manzano, Moriarty, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy, Robertson, Taos High, Taos Middle School)

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.
• Judging Rubric for the Expo judging.
• Display Board Requirements
• Contest for next year's Logo requirements

Awards Ceremony

• Directions and Map to the Hotels, Expo, and 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
• La Cueva High School team takes top award in 23rd New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge

Mohit Dubey of the New Mexico School for the Arts describes his research on how music can help the blind see by translating pixels of an image into a note during finalist team judging Monday in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Other sources

• Albuquerque Journal, 4/24/2013
• Albuquerque Journal, 4/30/2013

Followup Surveys

• Students, take the Student Survey if you didn't fill it out at the Expo/Awards Ceremony
• Teachers, fill out the Teacher Evaluation Word file and email it to Consult at challenge dot nm dot org

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