Students descend on LANL for computing challenge

More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will gather at Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday and Tuesday for judging and an awards ceremony in the 21st annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.

About 50 teams of students from elementary, middle and high schools are expected at the Expo, said David Kratzer of the laboratory’s High Performance Computer Systems group and the lab’s coordinator of the Supercomputing Challenge.

While at Los Alamos, students will present their projects and take part in tours, talks and demonstrations with laboratory scientists and researchers. Student projects will be recognized during an awards ceremony from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of Christ, 2323 Diamond Drive.

“The mission of the Supercomputing Challenge is to teach teams of middle and high school students how to use powerful computers to analyze, model, and solve real-world problems,” Kratzer said.

Los Alamos High School submitted four reports and Los Alamos Middle School submitted five.

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