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Sandia Tour, Monday, March 20, 2006

	Forty-six participants from eight schools participated in the tour of Sandia National Laboratories
	Dr. Curtis Johnson of Sandia's Advanced Concepts Group talks about how the Brain and Machines are similar yet very different.
	Debby Tewa talks about Renewable Energy

Meeting Place

We will meet at the Days Inn in Albuquerque located on Hotel Avenue. Hotel Avenue is just south of Lomas (between Lomas and I-40) and East of Eubank. The Days Inn is just east of Eubank. The address is: 10321 Hotel Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87123-1256. The phone number for the Days Inn is 505-275-3297.

Meeting Time

We will meet at 8:00 am and should be back at the hotel around 3:15 pm.

Schedule

8:30 Leave hotel
9:00 Curtis Johnson--The Brain
10:00 Debby Tewa--Renewable Energy
11:00 Neal Shinn--Nanotechnology
11:45 lunch at the Thunderbird Cafe
12:30 board bus for Tech Area
12:45 Red Storm-John Noe/J-cell-David Rogers
2:30 Cyber Defenders, Karen Shanklin and Bryan Richardson
3:15 Return to hotel

Required forms

The following forms need to be filled out by each participants and brought to the event.

• Tour Guidelines (Word file)  (pdf file)
• Tour Permission slip (Word file)  (pdf file)

Announcement

Sandia National Labs will host a tour day for participants in the Supercomputing Challenge on Monday March 20th, 2006. Students are eligible to come to the tour day if their team has submitted an interim report and participated in the Project Evaluation judging. Participants MUST be US citizens.

Space is limited to 50 Challenge participants and registration will be on a first come first served basis. There is financial support available for lodging for those schools traveling long distances (so they can spend the night on Sunday). We will meet off-base and be bused on base with Sandia Lab transportation. We will meet at 8:00 AM (We will let you know of the location in a later email). We will be finished by 3:15 PM. Lunch will be provided.

Please coordinate your participation through your sponsoring teacher so there is registration form per school.

The following information is needed for every participant:

The Social Security Number and Date of Birth are critical as they are needed to get visitor badges for access to Sandia National Labs Technical Areas. In addition, all participants wishing to go on the tour MUST have a photo ID to be admitted to Kirtland Air Force base and be badged by Sandia National Labs.

Please only make a reservation if you will be able to attend as space is limited. I need your reservation by March 6, 2006. Email the registration information to sandiatour06@challenge.nm.org

See what last year's Sandia Tour was like.