From KRWG Public Media, April 12, 2018, by Anthony Moreno.
The Village of Melrose may be small, but that hasn’t stopped its school district from competing in New Mexico’s Supercomputing Challenge.
For over sixteen years, Melrose Municipal Schools have set aside funding and students have worked concessions to fund teams taking part in the challenge. Nearly a decade ago, a Melrose team even won the state competition. This after-school activity is pretty much their only computer science option, according to Superintendent Jaime Widner.
Supercomputing Challenge Director David Kratzer says the program can help fill that void, and also works to provide outreach programs to a younger group of students to address the wide gender gap in computer science jobs.