Expo and Awards Ceremony

The end-of-year project Expo and Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Alamos April 20-21, 2009.

All participants submitting final reports by April 1st are invited to the Expo and Awards Ceremony at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Note: Every team attending the Expo will be required to give a presentation not to exceed a half-hour on their work to a panel of judges on Monday, April 20th. A display board summarizing your work will be mandatory as well, and using a computer during your presentation is optional.

General Information

• 2009 Expo Information
• A description of the Expo.
• Learn about the Awards and Scholarships presented during the Awards Ceremony.

Directions/Housing/Parking

• Directions and Map to the Hotels, Expo, and Awards Ceremony
• Hotel arrangements
• Best Western Hilltop House Hotel
  (Aguilar, Artesia, Bloomfield, Chaparral, Melrose, Navajo Prep, Nuestros Valores, Silver, Albuquerque Academy, Hope Christian, AIMS@UNM)
• Holiday Inn Express
  (Bosque, Freedom, Jackson Mid, La Cueva, Manzano, Rio Rancho Mid-High, Sandia Prep)

Schedules of Events

• Tentative Schedule of events for the Expo and Awards Ceremony Activities
• Finalist Team Schedule
• Scholarship Applicant Schedule
• Schedule for the Expo presentations
• Tour schedule

Judging Information

• A description of the judging of the finalist teams.
• Judging Criteria that will be used during the final judging.
• Display Board Requirements
• Judges' rubric for the Expo judging.

Awards Ceremony

• Slide Show of the Expo, shown before the Awards Ceremony began
• The Awards Ceremony PowerPoint Presentation
• Awards Ceremony Pictures

Publicity

Los Alamos National Laboratory Coverage

• Pre Event Press Release
• All the Winners of the 2008-2009 Supercomputing Challenge
• Supercomputing Challenge April 21
• Albuquerque trio wins Supercomputing Challenge

Other sources

• Santa Fe New Mexican, High tech trials help whiz kids prepare for college, 04/21/09
• Los Alamos middle-schoolers finish strong
• Work Is Out of This World Abq Journal
or Journal article if you have a Journal subscription.

Information about last year's expo may be viewed in our archive