Coverage & voices
Stories about Challenge students, teachers, and alumni — plus coverage from partners such as Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The 36th Annual Supercomputing Challenge brought 16 teams of middle and high school students from across New Mexico to Los Alamos April 20–21 to present yearlong computing projects and celebrate award winners.
Read moreNMNWSE awarded Ahana Koushik of Albuquerque Academy for an outstanding project at the 2026 Supercomputing Challenge Awards Ceremony in Los Alamos.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory named the Supercomputing Challenge among its 10 moments of community connection in 2025 — a yearlong program that has reached more than 12,000 students.
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Laboratory retiree David Kratzer received LANL’s 2025 Community Relations Medal for decades of support for STEM education and the Supercomputing Challenge.
Read moreThe New Mexico Consortium invited students to register for the 36th Supercomputing Challenge, a yearlong computational-science marathon with an artificial intelligence theme.
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The 34th Annual Supercomputing Challenge brought 130 students from across New Mexico to Los Alamos to present yearlong computing projects and tour Laboratory facilities.
Read moreAshli talks about her Supercomputing Challenge experience — the teamwork, the yearlong project, and what the program meant for her as a student.
Monte Del Sol Charter School students Gabriella Armijo and Emlee Taylor-Bowlin used machine learning to build SAM, a tool that looks for stress signals in text that may indicate a friend needs help.
Read moreMadelyn’s team from the New Mexico School for the Arts won first place in the 30th annual Supercomputing Challenge, which culminated in April 2020.
Santa Fe High School teacher Brian Smith talks about mentoring Supercomputing Challenge teams and what the yearlong program means for his students.