Happy Monday,
Hope you are enjoying the cooler weather, the green chili, the state
fair, the football games, the smell of autumn arriving.
Registration
We currently have a total of 99 people registered, 84 students and 15
teachers. Registration closes on September 30th so you have 13 more
days to register. We need to get an accurate housing count to the
Glorieta Conference Center earlier this year than usual.
Once all team members have registered individually, be sure to
register the team:
http://www.challenge.nm.org/archive/07-08/registration_files/teamreg_login.php
About 15 teams have formed so far.
Mid School Track at the Kickoff Conference
At Glorieta, the middle schoolers will be attending the StarLogo TNG
track with a handful attending the NetLogo track. The teamwork,
computational science, project planning, etc. sessions will be
specific to them and their needs. Middle School students' proposals
will prepare them for special Meet the Scientists sessions during
which they will be interviewing scientists about their research and
their lives rather than having scientists review their proposals.
Much of the curriculum for the middle schoolers will be drawn from
Santa Fe Institute's Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking
Scientifically, an NSF program that promotes STEM skills (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).
High School Students
Please follow the flow chart at
http://challenge.nm.org/ctg/overview/project.shtml to make sure you
have a computational science project. An easy definition of
computational science is the intersection where three circles of
math, science and computing come together.
Here is a Wikipedia definition of computational science. "It is the
use of computers to perform research in other fields. It is the
application of computer simulation and other forms of computation to
problems in various scientific disciplines. It is not to be confused
with computer science which is the study of topics related to
computers and information
processing."
Science Link
Many scientists theorize that the dinosaurs were wiped off the face
of the earth by a giant meteor. Now, Naked Science reveals the
startling discovery that it was a meteorite impact that may have
helped give rise to them. Journey from the bowels of the earth to the
summit of one of the world's most active volcanoes and deep into a
mysterious lake, as Dino Meteor gathers a team of scientists working
to understand the origin of the dinosaurs.
Sandia National Laboratories' Mark Boslough's Red Storm computer
exercise modeled an asteroid impact with the atmosphere over the Sahara Desert.
For more information, visit
http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/boslough-discover.html
This show will be part of our curriculum at 9 PM at the Kickoff.
Betsy, Celia and David
Supercomputing Challenge Consulting, consult@challenge.nm.org
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