Supercomputing Challenge Board of Directors Meeting

The New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge board of directors will hold its 1st quarter 2009 meeting at Santa Fe Complex on Wednesday, January 15 from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The Supercomputing Challenge is a nationally recognized program that promotes computational thinking in science and engineering so that the next generation of high school graduates is better prepared to compete in an information based economy. Teams of students work throughout the school year to complete science 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.

Supercomputing Challenge teams tackle a range of interesting problems to solve. The most successful projects address a topic that holds great interest for the team. In recent years, ideas for projects have come from astronomy, geology, physics, ecology, mathematics, economics, sociology, and computer science. For more information on the challenge, visit its website.

Santa Fe Complex’s JP Gonzales works with students at the kickoff event for the 08-09 challenge. The annual program kicked off at the Glorieta Conference Center outside Santa Fe last October. Dr. Ed Angel, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, Director of the Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) and Santa Fe Complex board member, was the keynote speaker.