Expo and Awards Ceremony

The end-of-year project Expo and Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Alamos April 23-24, 2012.

All participants submitting final reports by the first Wednesday in April 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 23rd. A display board summarizing your work will be mandatory as well, and using a computer during your presentation is optional.

General Information

• 2012 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
  (Alamogordo, Artesia, Chaparral High, Down to Earth School, Grants, Las Cruces, Melrose, Mesa Mid, Miyamura, Navajo Prep, Picacho, Quemado, Red Mountain, School of Dreams Acad, Zuni)
• Comfort Inn
  (AIMS@UNM, Albuquerque Academy, CEPi1, Cleveland, Edgewood, Escalante, Freedom, Jackson Mid, La Cueva, Manzano, Robertson, Sandia Prep, Sat Sci&Math, St. Pius X, Taos)

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

• Directions and Map to the Hotels, Expo, and Awards Ceremony
• Slide Show of the Expo, shown before the Awards Ceremony began
• Awards Ceremony Pictures
• The Awards Ceremony PowerPoint Presentation

Publicity

Los Alamos National Laboratory Coverage

• Pre Event Press Release
• Albuquerque Manzano student takes top award in 22nd annual Supercomputing Challenge
• All the Winners of the 2011-2012 Supercomputing Challenge.

Other sources

• OptoIQ, 4/17/2012
• Los Alamos Daily Post, 4/17/2012
• Los Alamos Monitor, 4/24/2012
• Desert Academy News Release
• Albuquerque Journal, 04/25/12 if you have a subscription
• Los Alamos Daily Post, 04/24/12
• SF New Mexican, 4/25/12

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