Supercomputing Challenge
Kickoff Conference
Saturday Night Electives, 7:45-9:00
- Sewn Circuits, Speare 113, Mary Sagartz, Tim Thomas, Jodi Stecher
Use technology to create an object to wear. Use a small battery, led
lights, and silver conductive thread to hand sew a lighted design
into anything you desire.
- MaKey MaKey, Cramer 203, Patty Meyer, Sean Turner
MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for
the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine
them with the Internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners
and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything in between.
Raffle of a couple of MaKey MaKeys.
- Ethical Hacking and Code Breaking, Speare 23, Lab,
Neale Pickett, Josh Hoover
A hands on tutorial and contest.
- Robotics, Cramer 239, Creighton Edington, Harry Henderson, Ian Neal
Winning Robotics Coach "The Hammer" Edington will provide
participants with a brief description of
BEST Robotics,
Botball,
and RoboRAVE to students
interested in starting a robotics team.
"The Hammer" will reveal some key trade secrets that will allow
your team to compete at the next level.
- Arduinos, Weir 208, Bandit Gangwere, Morgan Gangwere
A lecture-demonstration on beginning to program Arduinos. Create
interactive objects or environments. Includes a handout with resources
and sample programs. Raffle of two Lily pads, microcontroller boards.
Understanding of C useful.
- Gym, NM Tech Gymnasium, Cameron Rist, Aaron Holloway
Dodge ball and volleyball.
- NM Tech Game Room, Fidel Student Union Building, Mathias Sagartz, Shon Eastman
Billiards, Foosball, air hockey, etc.
- Etscorn Observatory, Veronica Pierce, Arlo Barnes, Shelby Trujillo, Hunter Filonowich
Catch the bus at the Mineral Museum for a unique star party,
hosted by the Astronomy Club.
- Plotting spirograph curves with Processing, Speare 116, Lab, Nick Bennett, Randy Van Why
In this session, we'll be exploring Processing.js (the JavaScript
implementation of Processing), by using it to plot hypotrochoids
-- aka spirograph curves.
- Mafia, Cramer 120, JP Gonzales, Katheryn Perea
Otherwise called Werewolf, Witch Hunt, or Pirates. It is a party
game modeling a battle between an informed minority (the mafia)
and an uninformed majority (the townspeople).
- Scratch, Cramer 114, Lab, Phillip Arguello, Betsy Frederick, Emily McClenahan
Create stories, games, and animations. Share with others around
the world. http://scratch.mit.edu
- Yoga, Gym, Melissa Begaye, Michelle Mwei
- Web Design, Weir 128, Lab, Peter Yanke, Kevin Clay, Diego Trujillo
For Beginners to Advanced -HTML Syntax, FTP, Cascading Style Sheets,
JavaScript, Applets, Server Side Scripts, Resource Booklet
- Mineral Museum, Dr. Virgil Lueth, Jason Dubman
See gold, silver, and precious gems, the objects of the Conquistador's
travels and travails, glitter on glass shelves next to other spectacular
mineral forms.
- Computer Science Teachers Association, Cramer 227, Albert Simon,
Teachers, come learn about the Hour of Code from CSEd Week!
- Fractals, Weir 209, Lab, Joel Castellanos, Jimmy Alexander
Come to a hands-on workshop to learn the software packages Fractal
Grower and Xaos. See photos of fractals in nature, applications of
fractals and the relationship between fractals and chaos theory.
- OpenGL, Cramer 213, Lab, Ian Mallett, Xander Smith
Elective course for learning 2D and 3D visualization in OpenGL 2.
Topics include OpenGL context creation, an introduction to the graphics
pipeline, immediate mode rendering, key concepts in graphics.
Prerequisite: intermediate programming skills in any language.