Supercomputing Challenge

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The Supercomputing Challenge is an annual state wide competition held in New Mexico for high school programmers.

Begun in 1991 from a grant from Los Alamos National Laboratories, the Supercomputing Challenge offers students a chance to write a program and compete against different students from other schools. This program must simulate a "real world" problem, or solutions thereof, in an accepted language, ie. Java, C, C++, Starlogo, FORTRAN, etc. Around October, the participants attend a conference held in Glorieta, NM, to discuss their projects and confer with scientists to determine the feasibility and other factors concerning their intended project.

During spring, usually in April, participating students and their sponsoring instructors attend a conference in Los Alamos, at the laboratories, to present their final work before a panel of judges. The finalists, previously selected from final reports submitted earlier, present once more in a closed-door session to another panel of judges. The overall winners are awarded generous prizes at the awards ceremony, which is usually held the very next day after presentations. The program also offers scholarships to all participating seniors.