New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge

Class Materials

Class material from the Kickoff Conference.

Data Analysis

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Meet the Scientist/Proposal Review

The facilitators/instructors/scientists will meet the students in their teams. The students will have copies of their proposals with them and their Computational Science Process form. The Meet the Scientist form will be filled out. Meet the Scientist instructions.

The purpose of the session is to make sure the teams have chosen a problem that is suitable for science, has measurable components so that a mathematical model can be developed, and from that a computing solution can be written. The session is secondarily about mentoring teams who have good proposals and are ready to get started on their project.

Some students will come to this session and need help from scratch. When the proposals are ready, they, too, can submit their proposals.

Students whose proposals are complete can move to computers to begin research or work at tables to plan their timeline, assign tasks to different members of the team, etc. They will learn to use the blogging system to communicate with their teammates. If there are facilitators who are not working with teams to get their proposals completed it would be great if they could do some mentoring of teams who are ready.

It may be helpful to look at the proposal guidelines and the proposals that are already up on the Challenge web page - http://www.challenge.nm.org/proposals. There is also a link on the web page for questions to ask to direct the students: http://www.challenge.nm.org/kickoff/classes/tpd.html. Additionally, http://www.challenge.nm.org/about/areas.shtml links to areas of science and may be helpful for teams still looking for an idea. This guidelines link can be useful, too. http://www.challenge.nm.org/about/guidelines.shtml.

You can see which teams have submitted proposal on the proposals page of the Challenge web site.

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Report Writing Workshop materials

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Teamwork Class for teachers

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Visualization Class

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Questions? Contact Consult
For questions about the Supercomputing Challenge, a 501(c)3 organization, contact us at: consult @ challenge.nm.org