Welcome to the22nd Annual Awards

CeremonyApril 24, 2012

You Took the Challenge!

   We are proud of each of you!

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

David Kratzer, Consult

Presentation of the 2011 - 2012 Finalists

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

David Janecky, LANL

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

 Research Award: NM Water/Climate

Change  Presented by:

Mary Jo Daniel and Natalie Willoughby

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 

 Presented by: Sue King and Kathy Pallis

LANL

Best Written Report Winners: Team 36, Desert Academy

Language Acquisition in Computers

Megan Belzner and Sean Colin-Ellerin

Best Visualization Award

Presented by: Dr. Lorie Liebrock, New Mexico Tech

  Best Visualization Award

Team 102, Pinon Elementary

Visualizing the Tree of Life 

Ryan Swart

Winner:

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-Based Model

 Presented by Irene Lee

Santa Fe Institute

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

 Presented by Ron Davis,Abba Technologies

Community Impact Award

Team 101, Pinon Elementary

The Bullying Effect 

Jordan Bailey and Ruby SelvageWinners:

Crowd Favorite

Presented by NM Tech CouncilGlenn Perkal, TIG

Crowd Favorite

Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School

Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions 

Cole Kendrick

Newcomer Award

Presented byPeggy and Bob Robey

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

Presented by Peggy and Bob Robey

 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

Presented by Janeen Anderson 

Acaji Inc

Most Professional Presentation

Winner:  Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School

Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions

Cole Kendrick 

Best Web Presentation ofFinal Report

Presented by Michele Jacquez-Ortiz, Senator Udall's staff

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 Award

Presenter:  Rebecca Montoya

 

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

Senator Jeff Bingaman's

Video Message

Presented by Mike Davis and Victor Kuhns,

Cray Inc.

Cray High Performance Award

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

Presented by Shaun Cooper,  Member, NM CHECS 

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

Presented by Shaun Cooper, NMSU and NM CHECS

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:  Maia Chaney 

Little Earth School Silver City 

 Nominated by EJ Kirk

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

Supercomputing Challenge Technical Poster Award

Presented by Heather Rister

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

Presented by Shiloh Taylorfor 

Congressman Ben Ray Lujan

 Science Rocks

Winners: Team 107, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy

Reverse Osmosis 

Stuart Perara and Trinity Medley

Consult's Special Award Presented by Patty Meyer

 

Consult's Special Award   

Winner: Reffat Sharmeen,UNM Grad Student and

Cadre member

 

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

Outstanding Service Award

 Presented by

Betsy Frederick 

Outstanding Service Award

  Winner:  Drew Einhorn, Friend of the Challenge

Scholarship Winners

Presented by Nick Bennett,  Numerix LLC

 

 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 Aspiration Winners Presented by

Elizabeth Kallman, Ball Aerospace 

 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

NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Las Cruces

 Samantha McGuinn

Noor MuhyiCindy Yen

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

First Place Winner'sProject Overview

The Last WordDavid Kratzer, Consult

Delicious burritos will be served in the kitchen behind the auditorium after the awards ceremony.

 Your choice of Bacon/Green

Ham/RedSausage/Red Veggie/Green