Welcome to the 31st Annual Supercomputing Challenge!

Another Year's Competition Is Complete

• The Awards Ceremony Presentation
• Congratulations to all the teams that finished this year!
  All of the WINNERS are listed here.
• Watch an overview of the project of the 1st place team.
• Pictures from the Expo Zoom meetings
• Post Awards Ceremony Prize Patrol Pictures
• Watch the Awards Ceremony on YouTube

The Supercomputing Challenge is a program for middle, and high schools students to come up with a computational science project and work on it all year long.

See the Kickoff Class Materials/Resources webpage to access links to the class material and more.

See the Dates Page for the dates of the events for the 31st Annual Supercomputing Challenge.

• Registration: Sept 1 - 20. The first 50 teams get a welcome box for registering on time.
• Proposals due Sept 30
• Virtual Kickoff: Oct 3
• Interim Reports due Dec 10
• February Evaluations: Last two Saturdays in February 2021, and Monday through Friday in between them.
• Scholarship applications due Feb 28th
• Final Reports due April 11th by midnight
• Expo April 26th-27th

• See the Kickoff webpage for information about what took place during the Oct 3 Kickoff

• To learn more about the Supercomputing Challenge, read the Invitation to Participate.

• Teachers, post the flyer to solicit students or edit the Word version of the flyer and add your contact information.

• Teachers, student can get credit for participating in the Supercomputing Challenge.

Congratulations to Lillian Petersen

Congratulations to six year participant and multi-year Supercomputing Challenge finalist Lillian Petersen for winning the Regeneron Science Talent Search contest and receiving a $250,000 scholarship. Learn more at Regeneron Science Talent Search.

Lillian says:
Next year, I plan to pursue computer science and genetics at Harvard University. Over the last six years the Supercomputing Challenge has inspired me to develop my interests, dedicate time to my projects outside of class, and has opened my eyes to my ability to effect change on the larger world.