Expo and Awards Ceremony

The end-of-year project Expo and Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Alamos April 21-22, 2014.

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 21st. A display board summarizing your work will be mandatory as well, and using a computer during your presentation is optional.

General Information

• 2014 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
  (Centennial, Cottonwood Valley, Down to Earth School, Las Cruces, Mesa Mid, Miyamura, Newcomb, Picacho Mid, Red Mountain Mid, White Sands)
• Holiday Inn Express
  (Melrose Schools)
• Hampton Inn & Suites
  (Albuquerque Acad, Annunciation Catholic School, CEPi, Edgewood Mid, Jackson Mid, La Cueva, Las Lunas, Manzano, Moriarty, Quemado, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy, Saturday Sci & Math, School of Dreams Acad, 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 Presentation
• All the WINNERS listing

Publicity

Los Alamos National Laboratory Coverage

• Pre Event Press Release
• La Cueva High School team takes top award in 24th New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge

Other sources

• LA Daily Post, April 16th
• Albuquerque Journal, 4/23/2014
• HPCwire, April 23, 2014
• Los Alamos Monitor, April 22, 2014
• LADailyPost, April 24, 2014
• Las Cruces Sun-News, April 24, 2014
• Albuquerque Journal, April 29, 2014
• Deming News, May 1, 2014

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 Consult1314 at supercomputingchallenge dot org

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