Welcome to the
21st Annual Awards Ceremony
April 26, 2011
We are proud of each of you!
You Took the Challenge!
Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Shaun Cooper, NMSU CIO
Supercomputing Challenge
Board of Directors
Duncan McBranch
Deputy Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology
and Engineering
LANL
I Took the Challenge!
First Year Schools
John Paul Gonzales, Consult
I Took the Challenge!
First Year Schools
Academy for the Tech & Classics
Annunciation Catholic School
Bernalillo High
Hatch Valley Middle School
Mayfield
Robertson
Saturday Science & Math Academy
Volcano Vista
Welcome back!
Eldorado High School,
Picacho Middle School, and
Oñate High School.
Presentation of the
2010 - 2011 Finalists
David Kratzer, Consult
The Finalists
Albuquerque Academy Team 7
Eldorado/La Cueva Highs Team 43
Los Alamos High Team 66
Los Alamos High Team 56
Los Alamos Mid Team 69
Los Alamos Mid Team 72
AIMS@UNM Team 5
Albuquerque Academy Team 7
Desert Academy Team 36
Sat. Science & Math Academy Team 112
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Environmental Modeling Award
Presenter, David Janecky, LANL
Los Alamos National
Laboratory Environmental
Modeling Award
Winners: Team 5
Nico Ponder, Stephan Klosterman, Lewis
Jencka, and Jake Kileen
“Rehabilitation of the Rio Grande Silvery
Minnow”
Climate Change
Modeling Award
Presented by:
Natalie Willoughby
Climate Change Modeling
Award
Winner:
Team 119, Aspen Elementary School,
Global Warming, What can we do
about it?
Team Member: Sara Shiina
NM Museum of Natural
History and Science
Southwest
Ecosystem Model
Presenter:
Janeen Anderson,
Acaji Inc.
Award for Modeling
an Ecosystem of the
Southwest
Winners:
Team 48, Hatch Valley High School,
Predicting Pungency in Chile
Team Members: Joel Cazares, Selinda
Garay
Best Written Report
Presented by:
Kathy Pallis and Sue King, LANL
Best Written Report
Winners:
Team 7, Albuquerque Academy,
Characterizing the Effects of
Asteroid Belt Perturbations on the
Orbits of the Inner Planets
Team Members: Nikita Bogdanov
Best Visualization of Output
Award
Presented by: Dr. Lorie Liebrock,
New Mexico Tech
Best Visualization of Output
Award
Winner:
Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School,
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter
Effects on Galaxy Rotation
Team Member: Cole Kendrick
Parallel Processing Award
Presenter:
Dr. Lorie Liebrock
Parallel Processing Award
Winners:
Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School,
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter
Effects on Galaxy Rotation
Team Members: Cole Kendrick
Best Web Presentation of
Final Report
Presented by Michele Jacquez-Ortiz,
Senator Udall's staff
Best Web Presentation of
Final Report
Winners:
Team 70, Los Alamos Middle School,
Reintroduction of the Mexican Gray
Wolf
Team Members: Madeline Lockhart,
Sean Reynolds, Ronald “Derek”
Selvage
Recognition of Judges
• Michael Trahan, Sandia National Laboratories,
Principal Member of the Technical
Staff, Emerging Threats.
• Dr. Eleanor Walther, Retired, Sandia National
Laboratories, Principal Member of the Technical
Staff, Emerging Threats.
Community Focus Award
Presented by Ron Davis,
Abba Technologies
Community Focus Award
Winners:
Team 46, Freedom High School,
Fathoming Fortune at Freedom
Team Members: Joel Sandoval,
Holly Campbell, Brion Willis,
Chris Marroquin, SaraJade Chavez
Challenge Service Award
Presented by Betsy Frederick,
Supercomputing Challenge
Challenge Service Award
Winner: Nick Bennett
Crowd Favorite
Presented by Deb Loftin
Teacher, Cleveland HS
Member of the Challenge Board
Crowd Favorite
Winner:
Team 72, Los Alamos Middle
School, Computer Simulation of
Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy
Rotation
Team Member: Cole Kendrick
Newcomer Award
Presenters:
Peggy and Bob Robey
Newcomer Award
Winners: Picacho Middle School
Gloria Kindig, Veronica Muñoz,
Anna Gutierrez, Eva Morena
and all of their students.
Magellan Award
Presenters:
Peggy and Bob Robey
Magellan Award Winners
Bernalillo High School Team 16
Teachers:
Valerie Salas, Jennifer Halpain
Students:
Lorenzo Rivera Lanza
Joseph Kloeppel
Most Professional Presentation
Presented by Ed Angel,
Santa Fe Complex
Most Professional Presentation
Winners:
Team 36, Desert Academy, The
North Pacific Gyre
Team Members:
Sean Colin-Ellerin, Sara Hartse
Senator Jeff Bingaman's
Middle School Award
Presenter: Andrew Black
Senator Bingaman's Office
Senator Jeff Bingaman's
Middle School Award
Winners:
Team 98, Picacho Middle School, Impact
of the Saltcedar in the Southwest
Team Members: Jasmine Munoz, Felicia
Martinez, Manases Gomez, Alfredo
Carrasco
Senator Jeff
Bingaman's
Video Message
Cray High Performance Award
Presented by Mike Davis, Cray, Inc.
Cray High Performance Award
Winners:
Team 56, Los Alamos High School,
BrilliAnts
Team Members: Peter Ahrens,
Dustin Tauxe, Stephanie Djidjev
CHECS Research Award
Presented by Shaun Cooper,
Member, NM CHECS
CHECS Research Award
Winners:
Team 109, Sandia Preparatory,
Orbital Solar Panels
Team Members:
Alex Burd, Caitlyn Scharmer
CHECS Teamwork Award
Presented by Shaun Cooper, NMSU
and NM CHECS
CHECS Teamwork Award
Winners:
Team 70, Los Alamos Middle School,
Reintroduction of the Mexican Gray Wolf
Team Members: Madeline Lockhart, Sean
Reynolds, Ronald “Derek” Selvage
Teacher Appreciation Award
Presented by Celia Einhorn
Teacher Appreciation Award
Winners:
Gloria Kindig, Picacho Middle School
Sam Smith, La Cueva High School
Supercomputing Challenge
Technical Poster Award
Presented by Nerissa Whittington,
Technical Poster Award
Winners:
Team 103, Quemado High School,
Running Head: Multi-Touch Surface
Team Members: Jose Mora,
Justin Miller, Michael O’Dell
Graphical Poster Award
Supercomputing Challenge Logo
for 2011-2012
Presented by Dr. Shaun Cooper,
NMSU
Graphical Poster Award
Winners:
Team 11, Aspen Elementary School,
Where are you H1N1?
Team Members: Kai Coblenz,
Claire DeCroix, & Kaan Unal
Sandia National Laboratories’
Creativity and Innovation Award
Presented by Tom Laub, Principal
Member of the Technical Staff, Acting
Manager, Radiation Effects Theory
Department, Sandia National Labs
Sandia National Laboratories’
Creativity and Innovation Award
Winners:
Team 43, La Cueva High School & Eldorado
High School, Digital Analysis and Synthesis of
Musical Recordings
Team Members:
Alexandra Porter, Evan Roche
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 106, Robertson High School,
Specifires
Team Members: Austin Fenzi, Victoria
Gomez, Victoria Jauregui
Programming Innovation Award
Presented by John Paul Gonzales,
Project GUTS
Award Sponsored by
Fourth Watch Software
Programming Innovation Award
And the Pythonistas are:
Team 56, Los Alamos High School,
BrilliAnts
Team Members: Peter Ahrens, Dustin Tauxe,
Stephanie Djidjev
Science Rocks
Presented by Jennifer Catechis
for Congressman Ben Ray
Lujan
Science Rocks
Winners:
Team 16, Bernalillo High School,
The Effectiveness of Zombies
Team Members: Lorenzo Rivera Lanza,
Joseph Kloeppel
Judges' Special Award
Presented by Cleve Moler, PhD
Judges' Special Award
Best Challenge Process
Winners:
Team 80, McCurdy High School,
Contributing Factors for Obesity in the
US – Part II
Team Members: Lindsay Redman,
Marisa Griego, Ernesto Gonzalez
Judges' Special Award
Presented by Janeen Anderson
Judges' Special Award
Modeling Perseverance
Winners:
Team 9, Annunciation Catholic
School, Cars and Harmful Ozone
Team Members: Anjitha Saji
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!
Leadership Award
Presented by Michael Trahan,
past recipient of the Governor's
Leadership Award
Leadership Award
Scholarship Winners
Presented by
Nick Bennett, Numerix LLC
Division of Computer,
Computational, and Statistical
Sciences Division
Los Alamos National
Laboratory and LANS
Thanks, thanks, and more thanks!
For the generous funding of
Challenge scholarships
Scholarship Winners
And now, the moment we have all
been waiting for….
Irene Lee, President of the
Board of Directors, the
envelopes please.
Third Place
Third Place
Team 36, Desert Academy,
The North Pacific Gyre
Team Members: Sean Colin-Ellerin, Sara Hartse
Team 43, La Cueva High School & Eldorado
High School, Digital Analysis and Synthesis of
Musical Recordings
Team Members: Alexandra Porter, Evan Roche
Second Place
Second Place
Team 56:
Los Alamos High School, BrilliAnts
Team Members: Peter Ahrens, Dustin
Tauxe, Stephanie Djidjev
First Place
First Place
Team 72:
Los Alamos Middle School,
Computer Simulation of Dark Matter
Effects on Galaxy Rotation
Team Member: Cole Kendrick
First Place Team Winner’s
Project Overview
The Last Word
David Kratzer, Consult
Delicious burritos will be served in
the kitchen behind the auditorium
after the awards ceremony.
Your choice of Bacon/Green, Ham/Red,
Sausage/Red or Veggie/Green