Supercomputing Challenge

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

Begun in 1990 in a partnership of Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Technet, the Supercomputing Challenge offers students a chance to come up with a computational science project and compete against different students from other schools. This program must simulate a "real world" problem, or solutions thereof, in an accepted language, i.e. Java, C, C++, StarLogo, FORTRAN, etc. Around October, the participants attend a conference, 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.

First Place Teams of the Supercomputing Challenge

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