Supercomputing Challenge Monday Morning Message, October 1, 2007
Happy October!
Can you believe that is it already October and time to get ready for our time together at Glorieta?
HOUSING AT GLORIETA
We must know by tomorrow if you are spending an evening with us at Glorieta so that we let the housing department at Glorieta know how many rooms to prepare for us. So, if you haven't registered yet or signed up for a room, do so today!
Please register your teams if you are one of the 100 folks who haven't already.
Tuesday afternoon please check out our housing lists at
http://challenge.nm.org/kickoff/housing_session1.html
http://challenge.nm.org/kickoff/housing_session2.html
to see if there are any changes at this time.
STANDARDS AT GLORIETA
We are guests at the Glorieta Conference Center for the kickoff and we need to adhere to their rules. The rules are common sense that you should follow as representatives of your school and the Challenge. They are attached here and each teacher sponsor should go over these policies.
TEAFs TEAM ENTRY AUTHORIZATION FORM and REGISTRATION Fees
Congratulations to Sandia Prep in Albuquerque for being the first team to send in their registration fee and to Rio Rancho for getting us their TEAFs for the Challenge year. Please get your information into us asap http://challenge.nm.org/registration.shtml
HIGH SCHOOL PROPOSALS
Each high school team needs to bring a proposal to the kickoff. The supporting link for the proposals is
http://www.challenge.nm.org/proposals/
Three Jackson Mid School and one Las Cruces High team have already submitted a proposal.
MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENTIST QUESTIONS
Middle school teams can chose to submit a proposal, as Jackson Mid has done or they can bring five questions to ask a scientist about his or her work. Questions should help you learn not only about their field of science but about what a scientists work and life is like.
EXPERIENCED PROGRAMMERS
27 students have classified themselves as experienced programmers and they will be receiving a web form to fill out from Mathematica, and then will receive download links for version 6. Wolfram will then review the licenses at interim reports and renew those licenses for teams using Mathematica. Mathematica is an "automation in algorithmic computation, interactive manipulation and dynamic presentationas well as a whole new way of interacting with the world of data."
This group of students will work on parallel programming hints with scientists from LANL and also MATLAB with Cleve Moler while at Glorieta. Other classes will include teamwork, programming in Java and Python and a Meet the Scientist session to clarify their project proposals.
MATHEMATICS
Supercomputing Challenge sponsor Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, is now the official math brain trust for the hit CBS series NUMB3RS. The show airs at 10pm U.S. ET on Fridays. Visit their website, "The Math behind NUMB3RS," for an in-depth look at each episode. http://numb3rs.wolfram.com/wolfram.html.
PBS WIRED SCIENCE
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/ This is the link to a new series on Wednesday nights at 7PM on KNME. In the premiere episode of PBS' newest weekly series, Josh Davis of Wired magazine investigates an Internet botnet attack of Estonia's banks and newspapers; WIRED SCIENCE reports on cardiac surgery performed by a "robo-doc"; Adam Rogers explores the disappearance of home chemistry sets; and Ziya Tong delves into technology that is helping children with Asperger's Syndrome by translating facial expressions into emotions.
Sincerely yours,
Betsy, Celia and David,
Supercomputing Challenge Consulting, consult@challenge.nm.org
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