From the Los Alamos Reporter, June 7, 2022.
Four students from Los Alamos High School have been named finalists in the 2022 Supercomputing Challenge. They are Robert Strauss, Daniel Kim, Andres Iturregui and Andrew Morgan.
The Supercomputing Challenge is a program for middle and high school students across New Mexico to come up with a computational science project and work on it all year long. This is the 32nd year for the challenge.
LAHS senior Robert Strauss received the High Performance Computing Award for his project, Designing Proteins with Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing. Tenth graders Daniel Kim and Andres Iturregui were named Overall First Place Winners for their project, Developing a Control Algorithm and Simulation for Thrust Vector Controlled Rockets. Freshman Andrew Morgan’s entry was entitled A Ray of Hope.