AiS Challenge Expo and Awards Ceremony Schedule

Here is the (tentative) schedule of events for April 2005:

Wednesday, April 6
  Final reports due
  Students/teachers register to come to the Expo 

Wednesday, April 13
  Scholarship applications due

Friday, April 15
  Nominations for the Best teacher sponsor sent to consult@challenge.nm.org

Monday, April 18
  Submissions for the Best HTML version of a final report due

Wednesday, April 20
  Judges conference call - about half a dozen finalists will be determined.

Sunday, April 24
  Travel to Los Alamos, check in at the LA Inn
  Relax on your own in the evening

Monday, April 25
  7:00  Breakfast at the hotel
  8:30  The previously announced finalists will give 25 minute
          presentations to Finalist judges between 8:30 and 11:30
        Everyone else will set up their posters and give their
          presentations to Expo judges at pre-assigned half-an-hour
          time slots between 8:30 and 11:00
        These presentations will be in room 203 in the Research Park
          adjacent to the Los Alamos National Laboratory
        After their presentations, teams will be able to take tours of
          Los Alamos National Laboratory
  11:30 Poster session judges caucus
  11:30 Students and teachers vote for best project, technical poster,
        and logo
  12:00 Lunch
  12:30 Expo judges announce additional finalists
  1:00-4:00 Expo finalists make 30 minute presentations to Finalist judges
  1:00-5:00 Scholarship interviews with Scholarship judges
  1:00-5:00 Tours (morning finalists will give their presentations
              as part of the tours)
  5-7  Dinner (on your own)

Tuesday, April 26
 7:00  Breakfast at the hotel
 8:30  Travel to Los Alamos National Laboratory 
 9-11  Awards Ceremony at the Physics Division Auditorium
11:30  Lunch Reception and media interviews in the Otowi Cafeteria side rooms
 1:00  Depart Los Alamos