welcome to the 22nd annual awards ceremony april 24, 2012
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Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Shaun Cooper, New Mexico State University
Chief Information Officer
Supercomputing Challenge
Past Member of theBoard of Directors
Duncan McBranchDeputy Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology and Engineering
Los Alamos National Laboratory
I Took the Challenge!
First Year Schools
John Paul Gonzales, Consult, Santa Fe Institute & Project GUTS
First Year SchoolsEdgewood Elem.Escalante HighDown to EarthGrants HighGUTS y GirlsLittle EarthSODAMesa Mid
Miyamura HighNMSAPinon ElemRio Rancho Cyber Acad.YWIC Chaparral HighTaos High
The Finalists
ATC/Desert Acad/SF High - Team 2Desert Academy - Team 36Edgewood Elementary School - Team 41 La Cueva High School - Team 56Los Alamos High School - Team 64Los Alamos High School - Team 66Los Alamos Middle School -Team 72Los Alamos High School - Team 73 Manzano High School - Team 82Sat. Sci & Math Academy - Team 118
Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Modeling Award
Winners: Team 2, Desert Academy, Academy for Technology and the Classics, Santa Fe High School
The Impact of Forest Fires on Water Resources
Sara Hartse, Hugo Rivera, Nico Cruz
Center for Connected Learningand Computer-Based Modeling:
NetLogo Project
Presented by Stephen GuerinRedfish Group and Uri Wilensky
Northwestern University
CCL and CBM: NetLogo Project
Winners: Team 12, Artesia High School
DON'T PANIC!!! EMERGENCY EGRESS
Madison Mutchler-Ramsey, Joshua Trujillo, Jeremiah Marquez
Climate Change/Water Award
Winners: Team 94, NMSA
Water You Waiting For, Santa Fe?
Noah Caulfield, Mohit Dubey, Milada Guenther, Samuel Thompson
Southwest Ecosystem Model
Charlie Walter
Executive Director, NM Museum of Natural History and Science
Award for Modeling a Southwest Ecosystem
Winners: Team 37, Desert Academy
Depletion of Aquifer Levels in the Lower Rio Grande
Jeremy Hartse and Taylor Bacon
Best Written Report Winners: Team 36, Desert Academy
Language Acquisition in Computers
Megan Belzner and Sean Colin-Ellerin
Recognition of Judges
Michael Trahan, Sandia National Laboratories Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Emerging Threats
Dr. Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired
Special Guest
Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education & Research
(OSCER)Oklahoma University
Henry Neeman, Director,
Best StarLogo Agent-BasedModel
Team 17, Aspen Elementary
A Devil Worth Saving
Thomas Chadwick, Gabriel Holesinger, Tazler Smith, Sabio Thompson, Jack VandenkiebomWinners:
Community Impact Award
Team 101, Pinon Elementary
The Bullying Effect
Jordan Bailey and Ruby SelvageWinners:
Crowd Favorite
Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions
Cole Kendrick
Newcomer Award
Winners: Team 38, Down to Earth School
Polystyrene Versus Down to Earth
Ella Kirk, Simone Hill, Ruby Zeuner, Addie Clemens, Hailey Manlowe
Magellan Award Winners
Winners:Team 4, AIMS@UNM
Modeling the Flow of the Interstellar Medium Within Localized Sectors of Space
Louis Jencka, Randall Van Why, Nico Ponder, Stefan Klosterman, Jake Kileen
Most Professional Presentation
Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions
Cole Kendrick
Best Web Presentation of Final Report
Winners: Team 74, Los Alamos Mid SchoolHaptic Feedback: Controlling Robots with TouchConnor Bailey and Nate Delgado
Team 101, Pinon Elementary The Bullying Effect
Jordan Bailey and Ruby Selvage
Senator Jeff Bingaman's
Middle School AwardWinners: Team 73, Los Alamos Middle School
Simulation of Multi-Agent Based Scheduling Algorithms for Waiting-line Queuing Problems
Steven Chen and Andrew Tang
Winners: Team 4: AIMS@UNM
Modeling the Flow of the Interstellar Medium Within Localized Sectors of Space
Louis Jencka, Randall van Why, Nico Ponder, Stefan Klosterman, Jake Kileen
Cray High Performance Award
CHECS Research Award
Winners: Team 41, Edgewood Elementary
Duel of the Fuel
Ethan Hintergardt, Chase Podzemny, Emily Robinson, Keith Stevens,Pete Talamante
CHECS Teamwork Award
Winners: Team 58, Las Cruces Young Women in Computing
Utopia
Marie Ellis, Samantha McGuinn, Hiba Muhyi, Noor Muhyi, Cindy Yeh
Teacher Appreciation Awards in Memory of Peggy Larisch
:
Presented by: Celia Einhorn, Anita Nugent, Stephen Schum and Albert Simon
Teacher Appreciation Award
Winner: Jocelyne Comstock
Desert Academy, Santa Fe
Nominated by Taylor Bacon
Teacher Appreciation Award
Winner: Rebecca Galves
Young Women in Computing Las Cruces
Nominated by Sofia and Susana Bali
Technical Poster Award
Winners: Team 87, Melrose High School
The Intersection ofLines to Find Points
Randall Rush, Quinton Flores, Jon Tello, Kaleb Broome
Graphical Poster Award
Presented by Dr. Shaun Cooper, NMSU
Supercomputing Challenge Logo for 2011-2012
Graphical Poster Award
Winners: Team 77, Los Alamos Middle School
Investigating the Use ofHydroelectric Power
Claire DeCroix
Sandia National LaboratoriesCreativity and Innovation
Award
Presented by Dr. Tom Laub, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Radiation Effects Theory Department,
Sandia National Labs
Sandia National LaboratoriesCreativity and Innovation
Award
Winners: Team 36, Desert Academy
Language Acquisition in Computers
Megan Belzner, Sean Colin-Ellerin
New Mexico Network for Women in Science and
Engineering
Presented by Dr. Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Labs (Retired)
New Mexico Network for Women in Science and
Engineering
Winners: Team 56, La Cueva High School
Optimizing Community Detection
Alexandra Porter, Stephanie Djidjev, Lauren Li
Programming Innovation Award
Presented by Drew Einhorn,Friend of the Challenge
Sponsored by Fourth Watch Software
Programming Innovation Award
Team 66, Los Alamos High School
ExcellAnts
Peter Ahrens and Dustin Tauxe
And the Pythonistas are
Science Rocks
Winners: Team 107, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy
Reverse Osmosis
Stuart Perara and Trinity Medley
Sponsor Recognition
Let's give a big round of applause for our sponsors!
The people in these businesses and companies
helped us Take the Challenge!
Primary Sponsors:Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Security, LLCSandia National Laboratories Educational Partners:CCL, CHECS, Eastern New Mexico University, MIT Starlogo, New Mexico Computing Applications Center, New Mexico EPSCoR, New Mexico Highlands University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Public Education Department, New Mexico State University, NMSU-Dona Ana CC, Northern New Mexico College, San Juan College, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe Institute, University of New Mexico, UNM-CARC Commercial Partners:Abba Technologies/Hewlett Packard, Google RISE, Intel Corporation, Lockheed Martin, LANL Foundation, The MathWorks, Synergy Group, VanDyke Software, Wolfram Research, Gulfstream Group and bigbyte.cc, Technology Integration Group, Albuquerque Journal, Cray Inc, Fourth Watch Software, Innovate Educate NM, Lobo Internet Services, New Mexico Business Weekly, New Mexico Technology Council, PY Multimedia Services, Qforma, Redfish Group
The Computer, Computational, and Statistical
Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory,
ABBA Technologies, UPS and Los Alamos National Security
Thank you for your generous contributions to Challenge scholarship funds.
NCWIT Special Guest
Catherine Ertz
Operations DirectorNational Center for Women & Information Technology
NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Central and Northern NM
Taylor Bacon, Desert Academy, Santa Fe
Sara Hartse, Desert Academy, Santa Fe Stephanie Djidjev, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque
NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Central and Northern NM
Julissa Hunte, V. Sue Cleveland High School, Rio Rancho
Alexandra Porter, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque
Falisha Trujillo, Jemez Valley High School, Jemez Pueblo
NCWIT Educator Award Winner
Santa Fe InstitutePresident of the Challenge Board
Principal Investigator for Guts Y Girls
Irene Lee
And now, the moment we have all been waiting for….
Irene Lee, President of the Board of Directors, the envelopes please.
But first, kudos go to CleveMoler for being the 2012 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient, IEEE Computer Society
"For improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible and creating MATLAB"
Third Place
Winners:Team 56, La Cueva High School
Optimizing Community Detection
Alexandra Porter,Stephanie Djidjev, Lauren Li
Second Place
Winner:Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions
Cole Kendrick
First PlaceWinner:Team 82, Manzano High School
Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Plaques in a Transgenic Mouse Brain Using Image Analysis of SPION- Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images
Jordan Medlock