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Weekly News FlashesMonday Morning Message, April 29, 2013Congratulations to everyone who Took the Challenge and finished. We have posted pictures from the Expo at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/pictures_expo The Awards Ceremony PowerPoint presentation is also available on the Expo web page and we are gathering links to publicity about the event. Pictures from the Awards Ceremony are coming. If you didn't take or turn in the Challenge surveys at the Awards Ceremony, the student survey is available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G75ZVG9 and the teacher survey is at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/teacher_evaluation.doc. Please fill out the surveys as they help us evaluate the program and the provide input to potential funders of the Challenge. Thank you for sending thank you notes to the award/scholarship providers. Best wishes as you finish off another year of school, Betsy, Celia, David and Patty Wednesday Afternoon Message, April 17, 2013Congratulations to the first-round finalist teams: Team 31 from Desert Academy, Teams 47 and 48 from La Cueva High, and Teams 52, 56, 58 from Los Alamos High. They will be presenting their projects to the Finalist Judges according to the schedule posted at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/finalist_sched.shtml The Expo schedule has been reworked so check it again to see when your team will be presenting: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/exposchedule.shtml To get on site at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the driver of the vehicle will need to stop and show their driver's license, or some other form of government identification. Anyone in the vehicle over 18 should be prepare to do the same. The driver can vouch for anyone under 18. When you get to the LANL Study Center/Research Library, you will be given your "name tag" for the two days. You need to wear it all day on Monday and bring it with you to the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday morning (it could be worth $100!). Please review the directions at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/directions.shtml Try to arrive more than a half hour early to get a parking place, get to the Study Center/Research Library registration desk to get your name tags, and then to get to your presentation table to get set up. General information is at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo Make sure we have everyone listed correctly on the housing lists. Looking forward to a couple of fun and exciting days. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty Monday Morning Message, April 15, 2013Supercomputing Challenge Community: April 15th is not just tax day. Today is the deadline for your team to submit a web presentation of your final project. http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/finalreports/html.shtml So what else is happening this week? FINALIST JUDGESThese judges from business, government and universities are reading each final report and filling out a matrix of scores. They have a conference call on Wednesday the 17th to pick approximately five finalist teams on the basis of their final report and February evaluations. We will post these teams on our website and call the teacher sponsors on Wednesday afternoon to make sure they know the presentation schedule for Monday morning in the University House at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. We will also notify those who may be participating in a scholarship interview. NEXT WEEKHotel reservations, directions and parking can be found at http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/expo Breakfast is at the hotel. It is polite to tip housekeeping when you leave your room. Talk to your teacher and parents about tipping. David, thanks for your time and organization in the many details for this celebration! THE EXPOThe remaining teams present at the Study Center and Research Library. Team registration by your teacher, display posters (after your presentation), tour meeting place, voting for crowd favorite and next year's logo, scholarship interviews, cell phone and computer storage and live coverage of the finalist presentations are held on the second floor. Please use the stairs when possible. All teams are considered winners as they have finished the 2012-13 Challenge. Approximately five teams will rise from the Expo participants to become finalist teams and will present in the afternoon to the finalist judges. Winners of the Challenge have come from the afternoon teams. Monday lunch is in the Otowi Cafeteria across from the Study Center. Your teacher will have the lunch tickets and name tags in her registration packet. The Expo judges caucus at lunch to pick the winners for other awards. Afternoon finalist teams will be notified during lunch. During the afternoon you will vote for different projects. Tour groups form after your morning presentation and continue the rest of the day, with a reception at the Bradbury Science Museum from 5:00-7:00. Dinner is on your own with your team. AWARDS CEREMONY
KRSN Radio InterviewPast Challenge finalist and winner, Cole Kendrick, gave a interview on Los Alamos' KRSN radio station on Friday April 12th. Listen to the interview at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/KRSN_Kendrick.wma Got questions? Email us Consult at challenge dot nm dot org Excitedly yours, Monday Morning Message, April 8, 2013We are excited that we will see many of you in Los Alamos in two weeks! DeadlineApril 15th for an optional opportunity to win an award for the best web
presentation of a project: What to Bring to the Expo and Awards DayMandatory
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Reception at the Bradbury Science Museum Monday evening, 5:00-7:00 Practice Your PresentationThis is a great time to share your project with your school board, principal, classmates and parents. A polished presentation is a practiced presentation. Expo Schedule PostedPlease check the Expo Presentation Schedule posted at: One of Our Women On The MoveIrene Lee is a 2013 YWCA Women on the Move nominee for her work with GUTS, GUTS Y GIRLS, the Challenge and the new NSF CS4ALL program. We are pleased for you Irene and so value your vision and dedication. Please utilize our website for all the directions and schedules: Please feel free to ask any additional questions. Excitedly yours, Monday Morning Message, April 1, 2013April 1. Your final reports are all late! Greetings Challengers,Final ReportsWe will be seeing your projects three weeks from today at the Expo in Los Alamos. Wow! Your Final Reports are due by noon on Wednesday, April 3. That is two days from now. We have already received two reports. And yes you can continue working on your project after you submit your report. Your presentation to the judges includes your progress to date. Registration for Expo Awards DayRegistration for the Expo and Awards Day is also due by Wednesday, April
3. Everyone associated with your team who is coming with the team to Los
Alamos must register to guarantee meals and motel rooms. Teacher Appreciation AwardsNominate your teacher sponsor for an award. Write and tell us why she deserves an award. Schedule For The Expohttp://www.challenge.nm.org/archive/12-13/expo/schedule.shtml First round finalists will be posted on the web and receive a phone call on Wed the 17th. They will be chosen by the finalist judges based on the quality of their written final reports. Second round finalists will be announced after lunch at the Expo on Monday, the 22nd. They will be chosen by the Expo judges based on their presentations. DeadlinesTeacher Appreciation nominations sent to Consult April 5th OpportunitiesThis summer the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) is offering up to two high school students an opportunity to intern with the UNM division of BEMP. This is an opportunity to experience the work of biologists in the field and lab. Learn more at: http://www.bosqueschool.org/bemp.aspx and contact Jennifer Schuetz, schuetz at unm.edu. The Tech Frontiers program is open to current high school students grades 10 - 12. This partnership between LANL and UNM-LA will provide you with the opportunity to explore the exciting careers available in advanced manufacturing and robotics, computer science, material science, and renewable energy through tours, hands on activities and guest speakers. Each session is an exciting week of activities in either the morning or afternoon. Learn more at: http://losalamos.unm.edu/students/tech-frontiers Looking forward to seeing your final reports and you in Los Alamos, Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, March 25, 2013Happy Almost April, You have nine days to finish your final reports. Technical Writing Tip #4Thanks to Kathy Pallis for her writing tips. Quote and note your sources. Keep track of every source you use and cite your sources in the body of your report. Give the full reference in the references section. For example, the citation can be (Williams et al., 2001) or [1]. If you use a numbered system, make sure the references are numbered in the sequence in which they appear in the body of the report; otherwise list them alphabetically. Teacher Appreciation AwardTo nominate your Challenge teacher for an award, please write a note to consult at challenge .nm .org (Do fix up the address correctly. We write it like this to prevent spam.) You will read your note at the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 23rd in Los Alamos and we will honor your sponsor. Other Deadlines
Monday Night in Los AlamosJoin us for a reception at the Bradbury Museum, Monday, the 22nd from 5:00 to 7:00. You will have presented your project at either the EXPO or for the finalist judges and have gone on a LANL tour. Come and relax and learn! Check out all the awards that will be given at Awards Day at Any questions, please write to Consult. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty Monday Morning Message, March 18, 2013We are preparing for the Expo and Awards Day celebration at LANL. Awards are ordered and scholarship applications are being reviewed. Each of you who submits a final report is eligible to participate in the Expo and join the Awards Day festivities. You are almost ready to cross the finish line! Final Report Writing Tip #3Explain acronyms, abbreviations, and jargon. Spell out or explain any specialized terms or abbreviations the first time you use them. If you are using an abbreviation or acronym, use it throughout the rest of the document without spelling it out again. If you have many acronyms, abbreviations, and other terms, consider adding a glossary. Please write to Kathy Pallis (kathy dot pallis at gmail dot com) or Joey Serim (joeyserim at gmail dot com) if you need help with your final report. They are waiting by their keyboards to assist you, in any manner they can. They can help you get started, edit, or lead you to some resources you might need. EXPO/AWARDS CEREMONY InfoHere are many important links for you as we move closer to the end of our academic marathon: Registration for Expo now open: Final reports due April 3rd (send to finalreport13 at challenge dot nm dot org): Web pages due April 15: Poster ready April 22nd: Be working on Graphic/Logo Design: Reverse Engineering Contest, for womenReverse a real-world malicious software that is obfuscated in a pretty interesting way. We encourage all up-and-coming female reverse engineers to download the file, reverse engineer it, and then submit a report explaining the obfuscation mechanism and the function of the malware itself. Click here for more info and a description of awards. Good luck getting that final report finished and please register asap for a place on the judging schedule, tours, room and board for the Expo/Awards Day fun. Warmly, Monday Morning Message, March 11, 2013Hope you remembered to spring forward and fixed all your clocks one hour ahead. Love the way our computers do that automatically. March: Women's History MonthNational Women's History Project (NWHP)
http://www.nwhp.org FINAL REPORT is due in three weeksWriting Tip #2Be clear Keep separate thoughts separate. Review your sentences and make sure they flow logically from one to the other. Keep sentences short and sweet and stay on the point. When you move to a new thought, start a new paragraph. Use tables and graphs to quickly and accurately convey your data. Use tables for actual numerical values; use figures when showing relationships. Use a list for any sequence of three or more items. Use numbers only if the sequence is important-for everything else use bullets. Nonprofit of the Year Award 2013David received an email that the Challenge was nominated for the Albuquerque Business First Nonprofit of the Year Awards 2013. Applications will be evaluated on mission, innovation, impact and sustainability. Albuquerque Business First assembles a panel of leaders in the field to judge the awards. We may be honored at a ceremony in May! National NanodaysMarch 30th @ 333 Montezuma Arts, Santa Fe STEM Challenge for Northern NMLos Alamos National Laboratory's 70th anniversary is this year and they are having a STEM Challenge for Northern New Mexico students in grades 6-12. The STEM Challenge is a contest for students to learn about the past and present work at LANL while encouraging students to create a project about the science of tomorrow. For more information see: http://www.lanlstemchallenge.com Supercomputingly yours, Monday Morning Message, March 5, 2013March came in like a lamb but you will need to work like a lion to get your final report submitted by noon on April 3rd. Wrapup EvaluationsThe last set of midcourse Evaluations was held at New Mexico Tech on Saturday March 2. Teams from Artesia, Los Lunas and Las Cruces made their presentations to two teams of judges. If you have missed your opportunity to present to a panel please write to Consult. Consult at challenge.nm.org. Writing Your Final ReportKathy Pallis, our technical writing mentor, has over 20 years of experience in research, field studies, clinical science, diagnostics manufacturing, and project management. She will be offering us a final report tip a week. Writing Tip #1 Identify your writing goal. The more specific and clear the goal, the better the process will be for both your research and your report. Spend time thinking about this, put it down for a little while and then come back to it and try to look at it as though you haven't seen it before. Criticize it as though it is someone else's draft, then rewrite it and make it better. The Last Phase of the ChallengeIn April at the conclusion of the Challenge, a panel of judges evaluates the team projects and the individual scholarship applicants. A number of teams are selected as first-round finalist teams and they will be judged by the finalist judges first while the rest of the teams present their projects to the Expo judges during the Expo. A number of teams from the Expo will be selected as second-round finalist teams and present to the finalist judges later. During the 30 minute presentations, the judges question team members about project details. Applicants for the scholarships are also invited to Los Alamos in April and many will be interviewed by the judges. Each individual is asked to describe his or her role on the team. All Challenge participants who have submitted a final report are encouraged to attend the Expo and Awards Ceremony in Los Alamos in April to present their projects. Dates to Place in Your Calendar
Sandia TourOn March 4th, about 30 Challenge participants toured Sandia National Laboratories seeing the solar site and the robotic vehicle range where we learned how robots work in 3-D (Dull, Dirty and Dangerous situations). We learned about Sandia's space shuttle support and got to see several of Sandia's supercomputers and learned about the history of computing at Sandia. After a lunch where we play with puzzles, we learned about wind tunnels and had a chance to be cyber defenders trying to thwart attackers. A good time was had by all. SupercomputingA little hint: Supercomputing is all one word. Sometimes we call the Challenge SCC but it really should be SC - Supercomputing Challenge. Looking forward to seeing your final reports and you in the next months. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty Monday Morning Message, February 25, 2013Scholarships for SeniorsThere are four more days to complete scholarship application packets. All seniors who finish the Challenge are eligible for a scholarship to a college in NM. Please see the application details on the Challenge web page at http://supercomputingchallenge.org/expo/scholarships.shtml. Packets should be mailed to celia.einhorn at gmail.com. It isn't too late to ask questions or to ask a teammate and your teacher for a recommendation or to get a transcript from your school or to write your letter of application and tell us what college you are planning to attend. Get it done today! EvaluationsThe last Evaluation scheduled will be held at New Mexico Tech in Socorro on Saturday morning, March 2. If you are on the Tech schedule please check the times regularly because adjustments are often made to accommodate teams with unanticipated conflicts. http://supercomputingchallenge.org/evaluations/schedule.shtml#NMT. Remember that it is important to write to consult at challenge.nm.org if you have to make a change to your scheduled time This past week Evaluations were completed in Los Alamos. Ten teams shared their work with a panel of judges. The reports from the judges at all of the Evaluation sites have been very positive and they are looking forward to seeing great projects at the Expo. National Science Resource Center Announces Summer InternshipsNSRC accepts students who are currently enrolled in high school, undergraduate, or graduate programs at a college or university. Applicants must be at least 16 years of age. NSCR is now considering applications from students who are interested in working with our i3 Regional Coordinators. Interns must reside in either Raleigh/Durham, NC, Santa Fe, NM, or Houston, TX to be considered. Deadline for applying is March 15. This is a terrific opportunity. Please go to the website to learn more: http://nsrconline.org Apply now for a Summer 2013 NSRC internship! Betsy, Celia, David and Patty for Consult Tuesday Morning Message, February 19, 2013Sandia and UNM ToursTours of Sandia and UNM are scheduled for Monday, March 4. To register, send an email to us at: sandiatour13 at challenge.nm.org with the needed information from http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/sandiatour. The Tours are designed to show the exciting research being done in national scientific laboratories and how colleges are preparing scientists for high performance computing and engineering work. It is important to register as soon as possible so that we can reserve motel rooms for teams coming from a distance. Lunch is provided for the day of the tour at UNM and at Sandia. At both locations we will be seeing experiments, graphics and data visualization, and robotics demonstrations. Generally we encourage high school students to come to Sandia and middle school students to visit UNM. Visitors to Sandia must be US citizens. Please read the requirements for ID for Sandia at http://supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/sandiatour Scholarships - Seniors! Ten more days to apply!All seniors who are actively connected to a Challenge project are eligible for a Supercomputing Challenge Scholarship. That gives you two weeks to submit the following via email by February 28th, 2013, to Celia Einhorn at celia.einhorn at gmail.com Please see a list of scholarships available through the Challenge and
other important details at EvaluationsChallenge teams presented their work on Saturday to judges at Northern New Mexico College and at the University of New Mexico. This week teams will show their projects to judges in Los Alamos on Thursday, February 21. Please remember to check the schedule to make sure you know when and where your appointments are. Please let us know right away if you find you have a conflict so that we can make arrangements that will work for you and the judges. Did you miss your Evaluation? Please get in touch with us to talk about scheduling a meeting with Judges. This is an important step as you continue to develop your project. You may not have accomplished all you thought you would at this point but that doesn't mean you have failed or should drop out. It means you're experiencing the process of science. At an Evaluation meeting you can reflect on your work to date with Judges who will offer encouragement and mentoring. They will help you assess your progress. With them you can plan for next steps. Buses for Expo AwardsConsult is making plans for the April Expo Awards Days. We would like you to start making plans, too, for the trip to Los Alamos. Get the dates on your calendar and if you need to reserve a bus or van from your school's car pool, please do that now. Expo is on Monday, April 22, and the Awards Day is Tuesday, April 23. Teams from more than 120 miles away can plan to spend both Sunday night, April 21 and Monday the 22nd at motels in Los Alamos. Everyone else more than 60 miles from Los Alamos will be staying on Monday night. Trivia question for the dayWhen is the Final Written Report due? Consult -- Betsy, Celia, Patty and David Monday Morning Message, February 11, 2013Evaluations, Scholarships, Sandia and UNM Tours! EvaluationsEvaluations got off to a good start last Saturday in Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Silver City, and Portales. Teams head to UNM Albuquerque and Northern NM College in Espanola on this coming Saturday, the 16th of February. We cannot stress enough how important it is to keep an eye on the schedule because it can change to accommodate unexpected conflicts. If you have any concerns about your time or you are concerned about the process, please get in touch with Consult at Consult at challenge.nm.org. The meeting on Saturday with judges is an opportunity to assess your progress to date and to plan for completing the Challenge. One of our scientists reminds teams that in science, the project is never finished. There is always another variable to test and another insight to follow up. So, check the schedule throughout the week at http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/evaluations/. Write to us if you have questions or anticipate a conflict with your scheduled time. Scholarships - Seniors!All seniors who are actively connected to a Challenge project are eligible for a Supercomputing Challenge Scholarship. That gives you two weeks to submit the following via email by February 28th, 2013, to Celia Einhorn at celia.einhorn at gmail.com Please see a list of scholarships available through the Challenge and other
important details at March Tours of Sandia National Laboratory and UNM Engineering and Computer ScienceThe Tours of Sandia and UNM are schedule for Monday, March 4. To register, send an email to us at: sandiatour13 at challenge.nm.org. The Tours are designed to show the exciting research being done in national scientific laboratories and how colleges are preparing scientists for high performance computing and engineering work. It is important to register as soon as possible so that we can reserve motel rooms for teams coming from a distance. Lunch is provided for the day of the tour. At both locations we will be seeing experiments, graphics and data visualization, and robotics demonstrations. Generally we encourage high school students to come to Sandia and middle school students to visit UNM. Visitors to Sandia must be US citizens. Please read the requirements for ID for Sandia. More details will be filled in during the week so check out the web page http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/sandiatour Consult Tuesday Afternoon Message, February 5, 2013, Special EditionWe have so much to share, we needed another message this week. Announcements and Links to Science News, Summer Camps, Internships, and ContestsCafe ScientifiqueCheck out the Cafe's February schedule at http://cafenm.org/schedule.html and hear the talk about Nature's Spectacular Light Show: Mapping Auroras with Twitter! Sandia InternshipChallenge alumnus Victor Kuhns has sent us this announcement: Scientific computing at Sandia National Laboratories is looking for student interns who would be interested in computer hardware work. This opportunity is open to high school and college students. Please write to Victor Kuhns at vgkuhns at sandia dot gov NASA Science News for Jan. 28, 2013On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will
fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky
surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so
big come so close to our planet. Musicians and Wannabe MusiciansThis one is for you! from the January 28, 2013 issue of Bits and Bytes: Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association ContestThe Stockholm Junior Water Prize is sponsored each year by the Water
Environment Federation (www.wef.org/sjwp).
The competition is
open to any student who has done a project related to water resources,
and the student selected from New Mexico wins an all-expenses paid
trip for herself/himself and his/her teacher to the national
competition (this year in Portland, OR). The 2013 application
deadline is April 15. National Youth Science Camp June 26 - July 20, 2013The program pays all expenses for two graduating New Mexico
high school seniors to attend a prestigious 3-week-long camp in
West Virginia. This is a wonderful opportunity and a generous
program. The New Mexico Academy of Science selects the two
winners based on their applications, but we receive relatively
few applications. Using Twitter To Track the FluLink to http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/01/24/using-twitter-to-track-flu to read about social media working to track flu. Johns Hopkins scientists are figuring out ways to separate tweets that are about flu from tweets that indicate tweeter actually has the flu. This is an interesting research on efforts to validate data. Google is Tracking the Flu, TooCheck it out their models at http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/#US Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, February 4, 2013Project EvaluationsAll teams that submitted Interim Reports have been scheduled for an
Evaluation on at a college in their neighborhood. Please check regularly
to make sure you know what time your presentation will take place. Your
time may have to be shifted in order to meet a conflict. Here is the link
to the Evaluation schedules at all of the colleges/universities:
http://supercomputingchallenge.org/evaluations On Saturday, February 9, the Evaluations will be held at the following sites: NMSU -- Las Cruces, Western -- Silver, Santa Fe Community College, and Eastern NM University in Portales. Team members will make an oral presentation of approximately 15 minutes with 15 minutes for questions and answers, not to exceed 30 minutes, to a team of Supercomputing Challenge judges so that they can better understand the project, review progress and offer advice and direction on overcoming obstacles or finding additional resources. The judges are all big supporters of the Challenge teams and look forward to seeing your work. Remember to bring your files with your code and slides (PowerPoint) on a thumb drive. You may bring your own laptop. If you are bring a Mac computer, make sure you bring the appropriate adapter to connect to a VGA projector. Scholarships for Challenge SeniorsSenior students wishing to be considered for a scholarship award MUST submit the following via email by February 28th, 2013: Please email all three letters and a scanned transcript to celia.einhorn at gmail.com. She will get your information to the scholarship committee. All scholarships are valid only through the institution's fall registration cycle for the calendar year in which the recipient graduates from high school. All scholarship applicants must meet these criteria: The scholarship judges will contact the scholarship applicants. Interviews may be done by phone or in personal interviews in Los Alamos on the day of the Expo. For more information, please write to Celia Einhorn celia.einhorn at
gmail.com. The Challenge Scholarship web page is at Café Scientifique in FebruaryCheck out the Café's February schedule at Sandia and UNM ToursFinally, Save the Date for Sandia and UNM Tours on the 4th of March.
Details in next week's MMM and at Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, January 28, 2013Interim Report ReviewsIf you haven't heard from a scientist giving you feedback on your Interim Report, please let Consult know and we'll try to get you feedback. Feb Project EvaluationsCheck the schedules at: Try to arrive a half hour early to get setup, or to be ready if the judges are ready early. National Youth Science CampLesley Galyas, the Director of the Math and Science Bureau at the New
Mexico Public Education Department, received a letter inviting two students
(age 16-18) to attend a science camp in West Virginia. Travel and expenses
will be paid by the National Youth Science Foundation. DEADLINE IS 2/15/2013.
Application information can be found at: Tron LegacyCheck out this page, about the work of Josh Nimoy, which gives some technical details on the making of Tron Legacy. http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178 Computer Scientists Win Academy Award for Technical Achievement in Special EffectsResearchers developed a software algorithm that generates turbulence, and
they expect it to have applications in medicine and aerospace: Betsy, Celia, David and Patty Tuesday Morning Message, January 22, 2013Top Science Stories of 2012Check out Scientific American's top 10 science stories from 2012: Science Stories to Watch in 2013Check out Smithsonian Magazine's five science stories to watch in 2013: Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, January 14, 2013February Project EvaluationsThe schedule is coming together for Project Evaluations in February (and March). See http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/evaluations for the locations and times. Check to see that your team is listed and that you can make your presentation at that time. Let Consult know of any conflicts. Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE), Spring 2013Available live via videoconferencing, Tuesdays starting Jan 22 2013, 1:00pm Mountain Time http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education Registration is now open! Send e-mail to hneeman @ ou.edu. Flash Mob at April ExpoCelia and Patty want to put together a flash mob for the expo, if you are interested (adults and students) email pmeyer2843 @ gmail.com. Big DataHave you thought that your models could do more than prediction, but actually make things happen? Read this New York Times article about Big Data and how it will impact our future: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/technology/big-data-is-great-but-dont-forget-intuition.html and also the article on search filtering: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/books/review/book-review-the-filter-bubble-by-eli-pariser.html as we need to be aware of search filtering biases and the different results different people might get from the same queries. Call for Entries for the Aldo Leopold Writing ContestCheck out Bosque School's contest where you answer the question "Why is
it important to know where your food and energy come from, and how can you
or how have you made changes in your family or school life that reflect this
understanding?" Alumni NewsSamantha M recently let us know what is going on with her: "I am getting ready to start a new semester down here at NMSU, as well as a new job at Young Women in Computing. In November I was offered a position at Cisco Systems as a summer intern, and I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the position so I will be spending my summer in sunny San Jose, California." Betsy, Celia, David, and Patty for Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, January 7, 2013February Project EvaluationsMake sure you have your Interim report posted so that we can schedule your team for a February Project Evaluation time slot. See http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/evaluations January Peer ReviewsIn preparation for your February Project Evaluation, practice at a local
Peer Review session: Girls Expanding Your Horizons ConferencesAlbuquerque, grades 5-9 Northern NM, grades 5-12 Silver City, grades 5-8 Las Cruces, grades 5-8 Check Out the GOORU Search EngineGooru (http://www.goorulearning.org) is a search engine for learning. Gooru is free (of cost and ads) and developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education. Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community. Collections are aligned to standards and currently cover every 5th-12th grade math, science and social science topic, with more subjects coming soon. Betsy, Celia, David, and Patty for Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, December 17, 2012Happy Holidaze! This will be the last MMM (Monday Morning Message) for 2012. Interim FeedbackWithin the next month, your team will receive an email with feedback on your progress. The volunteer reviewers include alumnae, mentors, judges, scientists, programmers and mathematicians. Please thank them for their time and expertise. Pay attention to their suggestions as they often become your best advocates. Presentation PracticeJanuary is a good time for you to start practicing your presentation for the February Evaluation at a college in your area. Prepare by presenting to your parents, your science class or your school board or a civic group like the Rotary. This practice will help build your confidence for February's milestone. View the Earth as Never Seen BeforeNew images from a NASA-NOAA satellite reveal the Earth at night as never seen before. Highlights include views of superstorm Sandy making landfall in moonlight, photos of Northern Lights over the Arctic, and spectacular snapshots of city lights. FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/05dec_earthatnight Have a wonderful holiday season and a relaxing break. Make the computer science scene in 2013! Sincerely, Monday Morning Message, December 10, 2012Stay warm with this change of weather! Interim reportsCongratulations to the 20 teams who have already submitted their reports. We hope that our server is busy all day receiving the others. Don't forget that your Interim report is proof of your progress, don't hesitate to explain why you might've taken a different path than you first thought. Kudos to Karen Glennon, Jackson Mid School, AlbuquerqueKaren received recognition as a Hero in Education from Fidelity Investments for her work with setting up an open pantry and clothing bank, creating a prom closet for those who couldn't afford a special outfit and sponsoring the after school Supercomputing Challenge teams. Be A Part of the Conversation!National CSEdWeek Twitter Conversation on Tuesday, December 11 at 6:00 p.m. EST. Follow #CSEdWeek to join us! For more information click here. United Way CampaignThe Supercomputing Challenge would like to acknowledge the faculty and staff at Rio Rancho Cyber Academy for contributing to the Challenge through the United Way. Thanks for Taking the Challenge! Research Science Institute at MITFrom June 23-Aug 3, 2013, 80 of the world's most accomplished high school students will gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the Research Science Institute (RSI). RSI is a cost-free to students, summer science & engineering program to combine on-campus course work in scientific theory with off-campus work in science and technology research. Be one of them! Learn more at: http://www.cee.org/research-science-institute and http://www.cee.org/events/rsi-2013-application Supercomputingly yours, Monday Morning Message, December 3, 2012Happy December! CSED Week, December 9 - 15"Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was a visionary in the field of computer science. Her engineering in programming languages and computer system standards laid the foundation for advancements in computer science from the 1940s - 1970s. Computer Science Education Week is designated as the second week of December to honor her birthday, December 9, 1906, as well as her extraordinary contributions to the field." LEARN MORE Here are some ideas for activities for CSEd Week at your school. Get a slot in the morning announcements and share an interesting computer science fact each day. Teach your counselor about computer science occupations. Write to your state legislator and talk about the importance of computer science in the economy of our state. Talking points are all at the CSED Week Website. Milestone - Dec. 10th, Interims DueProject Management is one of the 21st century skills that you learn
participating in the Challenge is. An important part of managing your
project is getting technical reports planned, written and submitted by
the deadline. Your interim report is due a week from today, December 10th.
Guidelines are available here: This deadline may mean that you may have to convene some team meetings this week. Read the strategy below for working as a team to get the paper organized, written and polished. Technical WritingTechnical writing is another 21st century skill you learn from participation. Drs. Tim Thomas, UNM and Gary An, University of Chicago, two of our mentors, say, "We would like to point out that excellence in the sciences is accompanied by carefully crafted writing... so do make sure to allocate adequate time to the composition of your various documents, even if they are as brief as this proposal (or interim) so that spelling and grammar errors do not creep in. Clear thinking and clear writing are closely related." They continue "Pay attention to detail in written communication; clarity and precision in the practice of science needs to be reflected in how that science is communicated." If you are having trouble getting started with the report try having a teammate present to the other teammates while someone types what is said. Then rewrite it as a group aiming to be as clear as possible about your ideas. The final rewrites are for grammar, continuity of the paragraphs, and spelling. Read it out loud before you consider it done to see what you missed. MentorsNeed a mentor? Got mentors! Email consult @ challenge.nm.org Supercomputingly yours, Monday Morning Message, November 26, 2012We hope you had a thankful time these past few days and were able to rest up a bit. Interim ReportsIn just two weeks, your Interim Reports are due. We want to know your progress and what you have been doing since October. Please see http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/interims for details. Computer Science Education WeekCSEdWeek 2012, December 9 to 15, 2012, is a highly distributed celebration of the impact of computing and the need for computer science education. In 2010, with leadership from Congressman Vernon Ehlers and Congressman Jared Polis, the US House of Representatives endorsed December 5 to 11, 2010 - the week of Grace Hopper's birthday (December 9, 1906) - as Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) to recognize the critical role of computing in today's society and the imperative to bolster computer science education at all levels. Learn more at: http://www.csedweek.org Sensors in ActionWouldn't you like to know?! Who walked across your bedroom carpet while
you were not home? Or would you like to know if your elderly grandparent or
neighbor who spends most of their time alone fell? This is now possible with
sensor technology. Learn more at: Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, for Monday Afternoon Message, November 19, 2012Other CompetitionsThough the Supercomputing Challenge hopes you will spend a lot of your time and effort on your Challenge project, after your other school work of course, there are other competitions that we learn about and would like to pass on in case you need additional challenges or want to broaden your interests. American Computer Science LeagueThe contests of the American Computer Science League (ACSL) are designed for middle school students, first year CS students and more advanced CS students. Please see their web site at www.acsl.org and write to info @ acsl.org with any questions. Project EulerProject Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems. See http://projecteuler.net RosalindRosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving. Take a tour to get the hang of how Rosalind works. Google Code-in ContestThe Google Code-in contest gives pre-university students (ages 13-17) around the world an opportunity to explore the world of open source development. Students have the chance to work with mentors from 10 open source software projects on real world coding, documentation, user interface, research and quality assurance tasks. See http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in and http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/downloads/detail?name=2012GoogleCode-inFlyerwithoutlinks-updated.pdf&can=2&q=#makechanges Albuquerque Data Apps ChallengeUse the datasets on ABQ Data to build creative and innovative applications for the public. See http://www.cabq.gov/abq-data/apps-competition-1 STEM Action Planning SummitChallenge students from Capital and Santa Fe High, The Masters Program and the Academy for Tech & Classics and NM Tech joined teachers Irinia Cislaru and Bob Dryja and Challenge staff Patty Meyer and Celia Einhorn at the two day, statewide STEM Action Planning Summit last week. Our students were vital as they helped articulate action items for math and science teaching and learning. Teachers---Check out this articleStruggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, for Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, November 12, 2012Greeting from winter in Salt Lake City. Several folks related to the Supercomputing Challenge are in Salt Lake City this week for SC12: http://sc12.supercomputing.org With cold weather and a non-normal lake effect, it has snowed several inches here in Salt Lake from Saturday through Monday. I hear the ski resorts are opening up this week. It was 16 degrees this morning. Representing the Supercomputing Challenge at this conference are Creighton and Jerry from School of Dreams Academy, Challenge board members Ron, Tim and David, and Challenge judges Cleve, Elizabeth, Dorian and Henry, and there are probably more Challenge folks around among the 9000 attendees. 2000 of those attendees are from the international community. The exhibit floor is over 160,000 square feet with 300 exhibitors. This week they have set up SciNet, the fastest network in the world for a week, with the capability of moving 792 gigabits of information per second, using 28 million dollars worth of donated equipment. A staff of 130 put the network together. There will be 70 sessions about Exascale computing, and there aren't any Exascale computers in existence yet. (An Exascale machine will be 1000 times faster than LANL's Roadrunner machine that was the first machine, in 2008, to compute at a petaflop, 10^15 operations per second.) It is expected that an Exascale computer will be available in 2018. Creighton, Jerry and David are looking forward to learning more about the LittleFe machine, a teaching machine that can be built for about $2,500 that students can use to learn supercomputing applications and use. See http://littlefe.net for more details. If you are interested in trying to be part of a team of Challenge students who would like to build a LittleFe at next year's SC13 in Denver, let Consult know. Also, Henry Neeman, from OU, is again offering his Supercomputing in Plain English class during the spring semester. Henry was a finalist judge last year. See http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education.php for details, the PowerPoint files from Spring 2011, and when this Spring's class will be offered. 82 teams have submitted proposals so far. We are still expecting some more of you to submit proposals. Remember that your Interim reports are due in a month, December 10th. Submit proposals at: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/proposals Submit Interims at: Thanks to all our Veterans, for protecting our freedom, on this special day. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Monday Morning Message, November 5, 2012Project ProposalsWe are happy to see that 82 teams have submitted proposals. Challenge volunteers have been reviewing the proposals and providing feedback to the teams. Please acknowledge the reviews and if appropriate, ask more questions. STEM Action Planning SummitSeveral Challenge students, alumni, and staff will be participating in the New Mexico Partnership for Math and Science Education's Summit later this week in Santa Fe, to promote computer science in school curriculums. Additional Contests"We are the Faces of Computing" poster contest, deadline extended to Nov.
15, 2012: DOE Regional Science Bowls: Computer Science in the NewsRoboBees: Design Poses Intriguing Engineering, Computer Science Challenges Higgs boson talk Thursday in Espanola, Friday in Albuquerque: Follow up from last week's Origami linkA great TED talk to go with origami day, from School of Dreams Academy
teacher Creighton Edington: Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Monday Morning Message, October 29, 2012We are trying to keep our messages short and sweet this year. Currently, your team should be involved in research and finding a mentor. Tips can be found here: Research http://oii.org/html/navigation_research.html Choose a mentor from this data base: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/resources/mentors.shtml Arlo Barnes from The Masters Program in Santa Fe shares this link In honor of the upcoming World Origami Days (October 24th to November 11th), people may like to learn about computational origami. Origami is the practice of folding paper to make designs, and it is usually considered an art form and done for enjoyment. However, over time origamists and mathematicians discovered it can be useful for math and computation. A simple example is that of doubling the cube: that is, given a cube of a certain volume, creating one double the volume. It is a task that cannot be done with a compass and straightedge (which was a requirement for geometrical construction starting with the ancient Greeks) but it can be done by folding paper. Tuesday Afternoon Message, October 23, 2012Online Proposal Review - One Important Task for Now!Please make sure that your proposal is submitted and ready for review. (Thanks to the 68 teams that have posted proposals.) In the next three weeks, a scientist, mathematician or programmer will review your proposal via email. It is important to confirm receipt of their feedback and to comment on their suggestions. We are going to check with reviewers to see if they hear back from you. They are busy people who hope that their comments assist you in your Challenge marathon. They can become your best advocates throughout our "race." Monday Morning Message, October 15, 2012Wow! What an awesome weekend! Thanks go to:Our Tech hosts, Melissa Jaramillo, Lorie Liebrock, Scott Chadde and Megan McElroy! Our keynote speakers - Harry Henderson, Janet Penevolpe, Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz, Christa Brelsford and Jordan Medford! Our amazing staff of facilitators and Tech escorts! And you all, our students and teacher sponsors! What a vibrant community! Project ProposalsWe have 56 proposals. We will be "nagging" you to submit your proposal online if you haven't already. You will soon be receiving an email from a scientist, mathematician or programmer who will give you some more input on your project. It is polite to respond to their email and thank them for their time and expertise. These people can become your best advocates! Class MaterialsWe are still posting some of the class materials, but check out: Cafe Scientifique talkNeale Pickett, part of the 1990-91 winning team in the 1st Supercomputing
Challenge, will be giving a talk titled Ethical Hacking and Codebreaking:
A Hands-on Tutorial and Contest this week in Espanola, Los Alamos,
Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Check the schedule at: November School Visits or Online AssistanceIf your team would like some personal assistance with your project, please write to Consult at challenge.nm.org CS Bits and BytesCS Bits & Bytes is a bi-weekly newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research. It is our hope that you will use CS Bits & Bytes to engage in the multi-faceted world of computer science to become not just a user, but a creator of technology. Please visit our website at: http://www.nsf.gov/cise/csbytes Example of an article: Machine Learning Saves Babies!Computing algorithms save the lives of premature babies! More than 500,000 babies are born prematurely (before 37 weeks) in the United States every year. These babies have an increased risk of major health complications, including death within their first year of life. MUST SEE! Please let us know what your favorite parts of the kickoffs were and if you have any suggestions for next year. From your tired, but pleased Consult Management Team Tuesday Morning Message, October 9, 2012Let the Supercomputing Challenge Academic Marathon Begin!The Challenge as an Academic MarathonThe Supercomputing Challenge is an academic marathon. There are beginner, intermediate and advanced competitors. You run the course with supporters along the way. There are dates and milestones in the course to mark your progress. Your supporters are a teacher sponsor, the Consult team, the Challenge website, Monday Morning Messages, a project consultant or mentor, and your teammates. The first benchmark is the Kickoff, this weekend! You will cross the finish line with a computational science project or a computer program for the April Expo. It takes a lot of effort, hard work and focus. You need core strength, a solid base and the right running shoes for a marathon. For the Challenge you need to do research, find a mentor and write reports, complete a computational project or a computer program and meet milestone deadlines throughout the year. Stay on course and you will be proud of finishing the race! Registration - Saturday, October 13thKickoff registration starts on 10 AM in Joseph E. Fidel Center on the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro. Come pick up a schedule, t-shirt, get your individual and team pictures taken. Buses may park in the Fidel parking lot to the west of the Center. Rod Avery, chess lover, is planning to set up some chess games during registration. Come and strategize! After registering, tours of the campus are available. Lunch in the Tech cafeteria in Fidel starts at 11:15. Overviews and a keynote start at 12:45 in Macey Center Auditorium. Proposals27 teams have posted their projects on our website. 89 more to go! Remember to bring a Proposal with you to the Kickoff. See Proposal hints. A Proposal template is to be filled out for each team. Middle school teams will complete proposals during classes at the Kickoff. All high school teams will be having a proposal review during the kickoff. So come prepared! Elective Survey - Online TodayOnly one third of you have signed up for an elective for Saturday night.
Please do so at HousingA housing list is available on our Kickoff web page; scroll approximately
2/3 of the way down Lights out at 11 PM. Please be considerate of your Challenge community in the hotel and throughout the Kickoff. Happy Birthday, Niehls Bohr, Nobel Prize physicist.Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, for Monday Morning Message, October 1, 2012We are getting excited about our 23rd annual kickoff. Many of our alumnae will be helping with registration, tours, classes and electives! TWO CHALLENGE SURVEYS TO BE COMPLETEDTHIS WEEK TO DO LISTA) Please form teams, if you haven't already
https://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/teamreg_login.php B) Work on your Proposals11 of the expected 83 teams are on their way to success in the Challenge. C) Send participation fees and TEAF'sby Friday, the 5th.
T.E.A.F. (.pdf file) KICKOFF SCHEDULEEach of you will be placed into a strand according to your math level. You will receive your schedule at registration. These strands will have 2-3 hours of hands on computer programming. You will share your proposal with scientists in a Meet the Scientist class. Then you will have classes on data analysis and visualization. You will have six classes during the two days. 10 AM - 11:30 Fidel Hall Registration and Tours of the Campus 11- 12:30 Lunch in the Tech Cafeteria, Fidel Hall 1:00 Fidel Ballroom - Overview of the weekend NM Energy Overview (Harry Henderson and Janet Penevolpe) Computer Focus Tips (Holly Rae Bemis Shurtz) 1:45 First Class 2:55 Second Class 4:05 Third Class, Teacher Chat 5:15 Hotel Check In 6:15 Pizza Dinner 7:00 Keynote Speaker, Water Resource Economics, Christa Brelsford, LANL 7:45 - 9 Elective 11:00 Lights out at the hotels Sunday 7 - 8:00 Breakfast at the Hotels, Checkout 8:30 Fourth Class 9:40 Fifth Class 10:50 Sixth Class 12:00 Boxed Lunch and Challenge Winner, 2011 - 12 (Jordan Medford)See you online, at your school, at February Evaluations, March ABQ tours, and at the April Expo at LANL. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, Monday Morning Message, September 24, 2012Registration for the Challenge for 2012-13302 Students and 49 teachers from 40 schools have signed up for the 23rd Annual Supercomputing Challenge. Thank you! We are able to move ahead and reserve motel rooms, order food, and very important, order our 2012-13 Challenge Tee shirts with your school's name listed on the back! To Do This Week -- Challenge FundingComplete the Survey if you have not done so:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G9JS2HV This questionnaire asks about your experience with computing and with GUTS and/or the Challenge. It is vitally important that each student member of the community completes these questionnaires. The organizations that fund the Challenge make these surveys a funding requirement. Don't let us down! Take five minutes and Do It! Please form teams now(142 students still need to form/register their teams): And work on your Proposals:http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/proposals. Next week you will need to send inyour signed Team Entry Authorization Form that must have your principal's
signature. See Step 5 on the Registration page. Kickoff Conference, Oct 13-14 at NM Tech -- Saturday Night ElectivesThis week you'll be getting a survey asking you to choose an activity for Saturday night at the Kickoff. You can choose to visit the Observatory and see the night sky, learn to program in Scratch, play games, and make sewn circuits for LED decorations. Math, Science, and Computer Students: The Energy Sector Wants You.from US News and World Report, September 10, 2012 Calling all digital divas, web chix & coder girls!Nominate a High School Senior Woman for Awards http://ww2.ncwit.org/award/award.index.php Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, for Supercomputing Challenge Consulting Monday Morning Message, September 17, 2012Registration for the Challenge for 2012-13 is open until September 20.105 students and 26 teachers from 28 schools have registered so far for the
23rd Annual Supercomputing Challenge. It is important to register now so that
we can reserve motel rooms and meals for all of the teams, teachers, mentors,
facilitators, and other members of the community who make the Kickoff a
terrific start to our year. There is a chance that registration, and proposal submission, might not be available on Wednesday due to some facility work being done to the room that houses one of the Challenge machines. If we need to take that machine down, we'll try to get it back up Wednesday evening. Please register as soon as possible. To Do This WeekForm and register teams and work on your Proposals Kickoff Conference, Oct 13-14 at NM TechSpeakers and instructors are being lined up for the Kickoff Conference.
Read all about 'Yoga for the Digital Life' that will get our Saturday off to
a moving an stress-free start: Challenge Participants look to making a differenceCheck out the YouTube video that past Challenge finalist Erika DeBenedictis
stars in about alternative transportation systems. Think how will you too will
make a difference in the world in the future. Betsy, Celia, David and Patty, for Supercomputing Challenge Consulting. Monday Morning Message, September 10, 2012RegistrationForty-nine students and 14 teachers from 17 schools have registered so far
for the 23rd Annual Supercomputing Challenge.
Keep those registrations coming at: Kickoff Conference, Oct 13-14 at NM TechSpeakers and instructors are being lined up for the Kickoff Conference. Keep checking http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/kickoff for details. Past Challenge ParticipantsCheck out the YouTube video that past Challenge finalist Erika DeBenedictis
stars in about alternative transportation systems. Think how will you make a
difference in the world in the future. Tuesday Morning Message, September 4, 2012This message is being sent to the teachers mailing list and to the students who have registered for the 2012-2013 Supercomputing Challenge. Please help us spread the word! Registration for the 2012-2013 Supercomputing Challenge is open!Ten students and a teacher have already signed up. (So students, get your teachers to sign up too.) Please go to this link to register: http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/registration.shtml Then the students and/or teachers can register the students on teams. Teachers can "manage" teams from their school, adding students to teams, dropping students from teams, and moving students to different teams. Participation fees are $40 per student and $0 for teachers. But, we don't want the participation fee to prevent anyone from participating so if that is a hardship, please let Consult know. The participation fees can be submitted by checks or Purchase Orders. Send Checks to Supercomputing Challenge, PO Box 30102, Albuquerque, NM 97190. Attach POs to an email to Consult @ challenge.nm.org or mail to the PO Box. Challenge Use of Face Book/LinkedInThere is a NM Supercomputing Challenge Facebook group and LinkedIn group and as people register for the Challenge, we well be "Inviting" them to join our Face Book and LinkedIn groups. Kickoff Conference, Oct 13-14 at NM TechPlans continue to be made for the 23rd Annual Kickoff Conference. The general timeline will be arrival 10:00-11:30 on Saturday morning, lunch, afternoon classes, check in to hotels, dinner and keynote speech followed by evening activities. Sunday morning will have three classes then lunch and teams will head home after lunch. Meals (lunch, dinner, lunch) will be provided at NM Tech. STEM Competition for High School StudentsSiemens Foundation, in partnership with the College Board, is sponsoring the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, which recognizes remarkable talent early on, fostering individual growth for high school students who are willing to challenge themselves through science research. Through this competition, students have an opportunity to achieve national recognition for science research projects that they complete in high school. Students or teams of students can enter to win scholarships of up to $100,000 for their work. Registration is open. Visit the College Board website for more information. The deadline for project submission is Monday, October 1, 2012, at 5:00 pm EST. Two Challenge teams have been finalists in recent years. Like the Intel Science competitions, Siemens Competition offers terrific opportunities for college funding and an opportunity to meet other students from around the country who are interested in science. We are looking forward to seeing you in October at New Mexico Tech for the 2012-2013 Supercomputing Challenge Kickoff. Monday Morning Message, August 27, 2012We have been sending out information about the 2012-2013 Supercomputing Challenge and are getting emails from folks asking more questions. Please help us spread the word! Registering for the 2012-2013 Supercomputing ChallengeRegistration will open up later this week so keep checking it at: Each student will register themselves and each teacher will register themselves. Then the students and/or teachers can register the students on teams. Teachers can "manage" teams from their school, adding students to teams, dropping students from teams, and moving students to different teams. Participation fees are $40 per student and $0 for teachers. But, we don't want the participation fee to prevent anyone from participating so if that is a hardship, please let Consult know. The participation fees can be submitted by checks or Purchase Orders. Challenge Use of Face Book/LinkedInThere is a NM Supercomputing Challenge Facebook group and LinkedIn group and as people register for the Challenge, we well be "Inviting" them to join our Face Book and LinkedIn groups. Kickoff Conference, Oct 13-14 at NM TechPlans continue to be made for the 23rd Annual Kickoff Conference. The general timeline will be arrival 10:00-11:30 on Saturday morning, lunch, afternoon classes, check in to hotels, dinner and keynote speech followed by evening activities. Sunday morning will have three classes then lunch and teams will head home after lunch. Meals (lunch, dinner, lunch) will be provided at NM Tech. A Visual History of SupercomputingMost of you are too young to know a world without computers and
supercomputers,
but we have come a long way in the past 70 years. Take a look at this
great "infographic" and
imagine the possibilities that you will see in your lifetimes, because
of computers and technology. Interested in a CAD Challenge?Create the best 3D design in NCLab using PLaSM, NCLab's free web browser based CAD tool by November 30, 2012 for a chance to win software and an iPad. See CAD Challenge for details. Monday Morning Message, August 20, 2012Are you ready for the 23rd Annual Supercomputing Challenge? RegistrationStart forming teams to participate in the 23rd annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
Registration will open on September 1st Registration deadline is September 20th. ProposalsTeams need to form and start thinking about their projects and preparing a proposal. See http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/proposals for guidelines. Our theme for this year will be energy. Kickoff ConferenceThe Kickoff Conference will be held October 13-14 in Socorro, New Mexico. TeachersPlease print a flyer to place in your school for advertisement. http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/archive/12-13/invitation_flyer.pdf Here is the invite link: Future topicsIn future Monday Morning Messages (MMMs), we will be sharing Science Links and Cool topics so if you have found something to share, let Consult know. Looking forward to a wonderful year, Betsy, Celia, David and Patty representing Consult, the Challenge Management Team These News Flashes are archived at http://www.supercomputingchallenge.org/news_flash.shtml so that you can review them at a later date. There is also a link at the top of each Challenge web page pointing to Newsflash. |
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