Supercomputing Challenge
Kickoff Conference
Saturday Night Electives, 7:45-9:00

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Ethical Hacking and Code Breaking, Speare 23, Lab, Neale Pickett, Josh Hoover
    A hands on tutorial and contest.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Gym, NM Tech Gymnasium, Cameron Rist, Aaron Holloway
    Dodge ball and volleyball.
  7. NM Tech Game Room, Fidel Student Union Building, Mathias Sagartz, Shon Eastman
    Billiards, Foosball, air hockey, etc.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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
  12. Yoga, Gym, Melissa Begaye, Michelle Mwei
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. Computer Science Teachers Association, Cramer 227, Albert Simon,
    Teachers, come learn about the Hour of Code from CSEd Week!
  16. 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.
  17. 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.