Welcome to the 18th Annual Awards Ceremony April 22, 2008

And we are proud of you all!

You took the Challenge and completed the marathon!

Master of Ceremonies Shaun Cooper, Supercomputing Challenge Board of Directors and Interim CIO at NMSU

Presentation of the Finalists David Kratzer, Consult

The Finalists Team 2 Albuquerque Academy Team 3 Albuquerque Academy Team 6 Albuquerque Academy Team 7 Albuquerque Academy Team 49 La Cueva/St. Pius Team 61 Los Alamos Mid Team 56 Los Alamos High Team 82 Sandia Prep Team 83 Sandia Prep

Welcome to Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Terry Wallace The Principal Associate Director of Science, Technology, and Engineering

First Year Challenge Teachers Jose Quiroz, Artesia Maureen Psalia-Dombrowski, Los Alamos LeAnne Salazar-Montoya, LA Andrea Spence, Los Alamos Zeynep Unal, Los Alamos Presented by Celia Einhorn, Consult

Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Modeling Award Presented by David Janecky, LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Modeling Award Winners: Team 16, Barranca Mesa Elementary, Global Warning: It's Not Cool Team Members: George Barnum, Eric Begnaund, Mohit Dubey, Ben Liu, Mengzhe Zhao Teacher: Andrea Spence Project Mentor: Dr. Michael L. Begnaud

Society of Technical Communication Best Written Report Presented by Kathy Pallis and Sue King

Society of Technical Communication Winners: Team 82, Sandia Prep Project: “Comparing Numerical Integration Methods” Team Members: Alex Clement, Amy Clement, Greg Fenchel, Jeff Fenchel, Jayson Lynch Teacher: Neil McBeth Mentor: Mark Smith

Best HTML Final Report Presented by Michael Friestad, New Mexico Internet Professionals Association

Best HTML Final Report Winner: Team 15, Aspen Elementary, Project: Cryptography Study Team Members: Dhaivet Pandya, Colin Redman and Matthew Ticknor Teacher: Zeynep Unal Project Mentor: Elizabeth Cooper

Recognition of Judges Mike Trahan and Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Laboratories, Principal Members of the Technical Staff, Emergent Threats

Community Focus Award Presented by Nick Bennett Grass Roots Consulting

Community Focus Award Winners: Team 90, Socorro High Project: “The Unbeatable Speed Limit” Team Members: Omar Soliman, Alan Benalil, Mariah Deters, Carly Nowicki, Teacher: Bala Settu Project Mentor: LD Landis

Best Use of StarLogo Award Presented by Irene Lee, Santa Fe Institute

Best Use of StarLogo Award Winner: Team 59, Los Alamos Middle School Project “River Otters and their Effect on the Riverine Ecosystems” Team Members: Thomas Henderson, Johnny Jacobs, Steven McCrory, Jack Mockler, Simon Redman, and Marie-Luise Schmidt Teacher: LeAnn Salazar Project Mentor: Rueben Guadiana

Best Challenge Process Presented by Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Labs

Best Challenge Process Winner: Team 42, Freedom High Project: “Cosmic Shooting Gallery” Team Members: Tanner Wood, Ryan Mayfield, Matt Royo Teacher: Joseph Vertrees

Science is Fun!

Presented by Tom Laub, Sandia National Labs

Science is Fun!

Winner: Team 83, Sandia Prep Project: “Modeling the Hydrogen Atom” Team Members: Alessandra Anderson, Kaitlyn Hughes Teacher: Neil McBeth Mentor: Robert Anderson

Students’ Choice Award for Favorite Project Presented by Tony Giancola, representing NMITSA

Students’ Choice Award Winners: Team 59, Los Alamos Middle Project: “River Otters and Their Effect on Riverine Ecosystems” Team Members: Thomas Henderson, Johnny Jacobs, Steven McCrory, Jack Mockler, Simon Redman, Marie-Luise Schmidt Teacher: LeAnn Salazar Project Mentor: Rueben Guadiana

Teachers’ Choice Award for Favorite Project Presented by Chris Neubauer, Representative Udall's Offic e

Teachers’ Choice Award Winners: Team 68, Melrose High Project: “Oryx Population at the White Sands Missile Range” Team Members: Kyle Jacobs, Richard Rush, Randall Rush Teacher: Alan Daugherty Mentor: Rebecca Raulie

Santa Fe New Mexican Award for Best Professional Presentation Presented by Henry Lopez, from Santa Fe's locally owned, independent daily newspaper.

Santa Fe New Mexican Award for Best Professional Presentation Winners: Team 48, Jackson Middle School Project:“Home Remedies vs Prescriptions” Team Members: Matt Jannakos, Chris Winter, Nick Shortencarier Teacher: Karen Glennon Project Mentors: Dale Henderson, Betsy Frederick, Nick Bennett

Cray High Performance Award Presented by Mike Davis of Cray, Inc.

Cray High Performance Award Winner: Team 49, La Cueva and St. Pius, Project: “An Analysis of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo” Team Members: Erika DeBenedictis and Tony Huang

CHECS Internet Research Award Presented by Shaun Cooper, NM CHECS

CHECS Internet Research Award Winners: Team 81, Rio Rancho Mid-High Project: “Modeling the NASA Dawn Ion Propulsion Spacecraft” Team Members: Destiny Tamboer, Ryan Cortez, Jerett Jones, Luis Maura, Alissandra Rogers Teacher: Debra Loftin Project Mentor: Nick Bennett

CHECS Teamwork Award Presented by Shaun Cooper, NM CHECS

CHECS Teamwork Award Winners: Team 59, Los Alamos Middle School Project: “River Otters and Their Effect on Riverine Ecosystems” Team Members: Thomas Henderson, Johnny Jacobs, Steven McCrory, Jack Mockler, Simon Redman, Marie-Luise Schmidt Teacher: LeAnn Salazar Project Mentor: Rueben Guadiana

We would also like to welcome Representative Jimmie Hall from Albuquerque and Veronica Rodriquez from Senator Domenici's office.

Special Mentor Award Successful teams say having the correct mentor makes all the difference in their project work.

Presented by Jackson Middle School

Special Mentor Award Winner: Nick Bennett, Grass Roots Consulting

Technical Poster Award Presented by Mike Topliff, NMTech (Last year's winner pictured.)

Technical Poster Award (Cover for the 2008-2009 Final Reports) Winners: Team 61, Los Alamos Middle School Project: “Turn Up the Heat, Energy Efficiency through Smart Wall Design” Team Members: Rachel Robey, Jessie Bohn Teacher: LeAnn Salazar Mentor: Robert Robey

Graphical Poster Award (Supercomputing Challenge Logo for the 2008-2009) Presented by Shaun Cooper, NMSU

Graphical Poster Award (Supercomputing Challenge Logo for the 2008-2009) Winners: Team 85, Santa Fe Indian School Project: “Scan of the Past II” Team Member: Daniel Pedro

Sandia National Laboratories’ Creativity and Innovation Award Presented by John Mitchiner, Senior Manager for Computation Science, R & D

Sandia National Laboratories’ Creativity and Innovation Award Winners: Team 85, Santa Fe Indian School Project: “Scan of the Past II” Team Members: Daniel Pedro Teacher: Rhonda Ward-Martinez, Sally Phelps Project Mentor: Stephen Guerin

New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering Presented by Eleanor Walther Principal Member Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories Emergent Threats

New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering Winners: Team 55, Los Alamos High Project: “Polar Warming” Team Members: Shelby Anderson, Emily TenCate Teacher: Diane Medford Project Mentor: Mark Anderson, James TenCate

Computer Forensics and Encryption Award Presented by iniCom Networks Awarded by Maryjo Daniel, Math and Science Bureau, PED

Computer Forensics and Encryption Award Winners: Team 15, Aspen Elementary, Project: “Cryptography Studies: Caesar Cipher” Team Members: Dhaivat Pandya, Colin Redman, Matthew Ticknor Teacher: Zeynep Unal Project Mentor: Elizabeth Cooper

Sponsor Recognition Shaun Cooper, NMSU and Supercomputing Challenge Board of Directors .

Let's hear it for all our

SPONSORS

listed on our webpage!!!

Senator Jeff Bingaman's Middle School Award Presented by Bob Robey, Consult

Senator Jeff Bingaman's Middle School Award Winner: Projects GUTS Team: Alexis, Betsy, Caroline, Celia, Dale, Greg, Irene, Janet, Josh, Lisa, Maureen, Nick, Paige, and Talaya

Governor’s Award Presented by Shaun Cooper Board of Directors Supercomputing Challenge

Governor’s Award Winner: Bob Robey, LANL, tireless champion for the Challenge!

Scholarship Winners Presented by Willard Smith, Tennessee State University and NASA, but first...

Scholarship Winners Let's honor Willard. Here are some words from Betsy Frederick, Consult.

Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory Presented by Willard Smith

Thanks, thanks, and more thanks!

For the generous funding of Challenge scholarships

Scholarship Winners Intel Corporation Scholarship Presented by John G Miner, High Performance Computing Analyst

Hot Off the Press: NM CAC Award by Intel Three Research Projects UNM, NM Tech, NMSU One faculty member, one graduate student and one Challenge student

Scholarship Winners Brandon Oselio, ASU or NMSU Daniel Pedro, UNM; Phillip de la Rosa, ENMU Alex Sifuentes, ENUM Vlado Ovtcharov, UNM Alan Benalil, NMT Omar Soliman, NMT Jessica MacKinnon, NMSU Danielle Charley, NAU Tracey Franklin, Dartmouth or Rice Miquela Trujillo, NMSU Sarah Garduno, NMSU Jayson Lynch, MIT or CalTech Punit Shah, UPenn or MIT

And now, the moment we have all been waiting for….

Willard Smith, the envelopes please .

Third Place  Team 2: Albuquerque Academy Project: “Nanoscale Self-Assembly” Team Members: Michael Wang, Ari Shaw-Faber Teacher: Jim Mims Project Mentor: Yifeng Wang, Ph.D

Second Place  Team 61: Los Alamos Middle School Project: “Turn Up the Heat, Energy Efficiency through Smart Wall Design” Team Members: Rachel Robey, Jessie Bohn Teacher: LeAnn Salazar Project Mentor: Robert Robey

First Place  Team 49: La Cueva/Saint Pius X Project: “An Analysis of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo And Its Application to Simulating Supersonic Shockwaves” Team Members: Tony Huang, Erika DeBenedictis, Project Mentor: Dr. Erik DeBenedictis, Dr. Dan H. Huang, Dr. Michail Gallis

First Place Winners Project Overview

The Last Word David Kratzer, Consult

New Mexico’s Best breakfast burritos will be served in the kitchen behind the auditorium after the awards ceremony.

Choose from: Bacon Green Cheese Bacon Red Cheese Red or Green Veggie No chile burritos with chips, cookies, fruit and drinks.