Supercomputing Challenge

“Cash contribution: 7,660 cash contribution: 12,400”

“Expenses travel 151 insurance 1,432 annual program events 46,291 equipment rental 302 materials and supplies 178 graphic media services 1,029 miscellaneous 1,758 total 51,141”

“Prior period adjustment 0”

“Pledges receivable 55,000 0 total 55,000 0”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 3,620 362”

“Teach teams of middle school and high school students how to use powerful computers to analyze, model, and solve real world problems during a year- long project.”

“The supercomputing challenge is an exciting program that offers a truly unique experience to students in our state. The opportunity to work on the most powerful computers in the world is currently available to only a very few students in the entire united states. The supercomputing challenge is a program encompassing the school year in which teams of students complete projects using high-performance supercomputers. Each team of up to five students and a sponsoring teacher defines and works on a single computational project of its own choosing. Throughout the program, help and support are given to the teams by their project advisers and the supercomputing challenge organizers and sponsors. The supercomputing challenge is open to all interested students in grades 4 through 12 on a non-selective basis. The program has no grade point, class enrollment or computer experience prerequisites. Participants come from public, private, parochial, and home-based schools in all areas of new mexico. The supercomputing challenge is offered at minimal cost to the participants or the school district. It is sponsored by a partnership of federal laboratories, universities, and businesses. They provide food and loding for the program kickoff conference during which students and teachers are shown how to use supercomputers, learn programming langauges, how to analyze data, write reports and much more. These sponsors also supply time on the supercomputers and lend equipment to schools that need it. Employees of the sponsoring groups conduct training sessions at workshops and advise teams throughout the year.”