1. Welcome to the 22nd Annual Awards Ceremony April 24, 2012

2. You Took the Challenge! We are proud of each of you!

3. Master of Ceremonies Dr. Shaun Cooper, New Mexico State University Chief Information Officer Supercomputing Challenge Past Member of the Board of Directors

4. Duncan McBranch Deputy Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology and Engineering Los Alamos National Laboratory

5. I Took the Challenge! First Year Schools J ohn Paul Gonzales, Consult, Santa Fe Institute & Project GUTS

6. First Year Schools Edgewood Elem. Escalante High Down to Earth Grants High GUTS y Girls Little Earth SODA Mesa Mid Taos High Miyamura High NMSA Pinon Elem Rio Rancho Cyber Acad. YWIC Chaparral High

7. David Kratzer, Consult Presentation of the 2011 - 2012 Finalists

8. The Finalists ATC/Desert Acad/SF High - Team 2 Desert Academy - Team 36 Edgewood Elementary School - Team 41 La Cueva High School - Team 56 Los Alamos High School - Team 64 Los Alamos High School - Team 66 Los Alamos Middle School -Team 72 Los Alamos High School - Team 73 Manzano High School - Team 82 Sat. Sci & Math Academy - Team 118

9. Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Modeling Award David Janecky, LANL

10. Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Modeling Award Winners: Team 2, Desert Academy, Academy for Technology and the Classics, Santa Fe High School The Impact of Forest Fires on Water Resources Sara Hartse, Hugo Rivera, Nico Cruz

11. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling: NetLogo Project Presented by Stephen Guerin Redfish Group and Uri Wilensky Northwestern University

12. CCL and CBM: NetLogo Project Winners: Team 12, Artesia High School DON'T PANIC!!! EMERGENCY EGRESS Madison Mutchler-Ramsey, Joshua Trujillo, Jeremiah Marquez

13. Research Award: NM Water/Climate Change Presented by: Mary Jo Daniel and Natalie Willoughby

14. Climate Change/Water Award Winners: Team 94, NMSA Water You Waiting For, Santa Fe? Noah Caulfield, Mohit Dubey, Milada Guenther, Samuel Thompson

15. Southwest Ecosystem Model Charlie Walter Executive Director, NM Museum of Natural History and Science

16. Award for Modeling a Southwest Ecosystem Winners: Team 37, Desert Academy Depletion of Aquifer Levels in the Lower Rio Grande Jeremy Hartse and Taylor Bacon

17. Best Written Report Presented by: Sue King and Kathy Pallis LANL

18. Best Written Report Winners: Team 36, Desert Academy Language Acquisition in Computers Megan Belzner and Sean Colin-Ellerin

19. Best Visualization Award Presented by: Dr. Lorie Liebrock, New Mexico Tech

20. Best Visualization Award Winner: Team 102, Pinon Elementary Visualizing the Tree of Life Ryan Swart

21. Recognition of Judges Michael Trahan, Sandia National Laboratories Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Emerging Threats Dr. Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Laboratories, Retired

22. Special Guest Henry Neeman, Director, Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) Oklahoma University

23. Best StarLogo Agent-Based Model Presented by Irene Lee Santa Fe Institute

24. Best StarLogo Agent-Based Model Winners: Team 17, Aspen Elementary A Devil Worth Saving Thomas Chadwick, Gabriel Holesinger, Tazler Smith, Sabio Thompson, Jack Vandenkiebom

25. Community Impact Award Presented by Ron Davis, Abba Technologies

26. Community Impact Award Winners: Team 101, Pinon Elementary The Bullying Effect Jordan Bailey and Ruby Selvage

27. Crowd Favorite Presented by NM Tech Council Glenn Perkal, TIG

28. Crowd Favorite Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions Cole Kendrick

29. Newcomer Award Presented by Peggy and Bob Robey

30. Newcomer Award Winners: Team 38, Down to Earth School Polystyrene Versus Down to Earth Ella Kirk, Simone Hill, Ruby Zeuner, Addie Clemens, Hailey Manlowe

31. Magellan Award Presented by Peggy and Bob Robey

32. Magellan Award Winners Winners: Team 4, AIMS@UNM Modeling the Flow of the Interstellar Medium Within Localized Sectors of Space Louis Jencka, Randall Van Why, Nico Ponder, Stefan Klosterman, Jake Kileen

33. Most Professional Presentation Presented by Janeen Anderson Acaji Inc

34. Most Professional Presentation Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions Cole Kendrick

35. Best Web Presentation of Final Report Presented by Michele Jacquez-Ortiz, Senator Udall's staff

36. Best Web Presentation of Final Report Winners: Team 74, Los Alamos Mid School Haptic Feedback: Controlling Robots with Touch Connor Bailey and Nate Delgado Team 101, Pinon Elementary The Bullying Effect Jordan Bailey and Ruby Selvage

37. Senator Jeff Bingaman's Middle School Award Presenter: Rebecca Montoya

38. Senator Jeff Bingaman's Middle School Award Winners: Team 73, Los Alamos Middle School Simulation of Multi-Agent Based Scheduling Algorithms for Waiting-line Queuing Problems Steven Chen and Andrew Tang

39. Senator Jeff Bingaman's Video Message

40. Presented by Mike Davis and Victor Kuhns, Cray Inc. Cray High Performance Award

41. Winners: Team 4: AIMS@UNM Modeling the Flow of the Interstellar Medium Within Localized Sectors of Space Louis Jencka, Randall van Why, Nico Ponder, Stefan Klosterman, Jake Kileen Cray High Performance Award

42. CHECS Research Award Presented by Shaun Cooper, Member, NM CHECS

43. CHECS Research Award Winners: Team 41, Edgewood Elementary Duel of the Fuel Ethan Hintergardt, Chase Podzemny, Emily Robinson, Keith Stevens, Pete Talamante

44. CHECS Teamwork Award Presented by Shaun Cooper, NMSU and NM CHECS

45. CHECS Teamwork Award Winners: Team 58, Las Cruces Young Women in Computing Utopia Marie Ellis, Samantha McGuinn, Hiba Muhyi, Noor Muhyi, Cindy Yeh

46. Teacher Appreciation Awards in Memory of Peggy Larisch : Presented by: Celia Einhorn, Anita Nugent, Stephen Schum and Albert Simon

47. Teacher Appreciation Award Winner: Maia Chaney Little Earth School Silver City Nominated by EJ Kirk

48. Teacher Appreciation Award Winner: Jocelyne Comstock Desert Academy, Santa Fe Nominated by Taylor Bacon

49. Teacher Appreciation Award Winner: Rebecca Galves Young Women in Computing Las Cruces Nominated by Sofia and Susana Bali

50. Supercomputing Challenge Technical Poster Award Presented by Heather Rister

51. Technical Poster Award Winners: Team 87, Melrose High School The Intersection of Lines to Find Points Randall Rush, Quinton Flores, Jon Tello, Kaleb Broome

52. Graphical Poster Award Presented by Dr. Shaun Cooper, NMSU Supercomputing Challenge Logo for 2011-2012

53. Graphical Poster Award Winners: Team 77, Los Alamos Middle School Investigating the Use of Hydroelectric Power Claire DeCroix

54. Sandia National Laboratories Creativity and Innovation Award Presented by Dr. Tom Laub, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Radiation Effects Theory Department, Sandia National Labs

55. Sandia National Laboratories Creativity and Innovation Award Winners: Team 36, Desert Academy Language Acquisition in Computers Megan Belzner, Sean Colin-Ellerin

56. New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering Presented by Dr. Eleanor Walther, Sandia National Labs (Retired)

57. New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering Winners: Team 56, La Cueva High School Optimizing Community Detection Alexandra Porter, Stephanie Djidjev, Lauren Li

58. Programming Innovation Award Presented by Drew Einhorn, Friend of the Challenge Sponsored by Fourth Watch Software

59. Programming Innovation Award And the Pythonistas are Team 66, Los Alamos High School ExcellAnts Peter Ahrens and Dustin Tauxe

60. Science Rocks Presented by Shiloh Taylor for Congressman Ben Ray Lujan

61. Science Rocks Winners: Team 107, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy Reverse Osmosis Stuart Perara and Trinity Medley

62. Consult's Special Award Presented by Patty Meyer

63. Consult's Special Award Winner: Reffat Sharmeen, UNM Grad Student and Cadre member

64. 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!

65. Primary Sponsors: Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Security, LLC Sandia National Laboratories Educational Partners: CCL, CHECS, Eastern New Mexico University, MIT Starlogo, New Mexico Computing Applications Center, New Mexico EPSCoR, New Mexico Highlands University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Public Education Department, New Mexico State University, NMSU-Dona Ana CC, Northern New Mexico College, San Juan College, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe Institute, University of New Mexico, UNM-CARC Commercial Partners: Abba Technologies/Hewlett Packard, Google RISE, Intel Corporation, Lockheed Martin, LANL Foundation, The MathWorks, Synergy Group, VanDyke Software, Wolfram Research, Gulfstream Group and bigbyte.cc, Technology Integration Group, Albuquerque Journal, Cray Inc, Fourth Watch Software, Innovate Educate NM, Lobo Internet Services, New Mexico Business Weekly, New Mexico Technology Council, PY Multimedia Services, Qforma, Redfish Group

66. Outstanding Service Award Presented by Betsy Frederick

67. Outstanding Service Award Winner: Drew Einhorn, Friend of the Challenge

68. Scholarship Winners Presented by Nick Bennett, Numerix LLC

69. The Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, ABBA Technologies, UPS and Los Alamos National Security Thank you for your generous contributions to Challenge scholarship funds.

70. NCWIT Aspiration Winners Presented by Elizabeth Kallman, Ball Aerospace

71. NCWIT Special Guest Catherine Ertz Operations Director National Center for Women & Information Technology

72. NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Central and Northern NM Taylor Bacon, Desert Academy, Santa Fe Sara Hartse, Desert Academy, Santa Fe Stephanie Djidjev, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque

73. NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Central and Northern NM Julissa Hunte, V. Sue Cleveland High School, Rio Rancho Alexandra Porter, La Cueva High School, Albuquerque Falisha Trujillo, Jemez Valley High School, Jemez Pueblo

74. NCWIT Educator Award Winner Santa Fe Institute President of the Challenge Board Principal Investigator for Guts Y Girls Irene Lee

75. NCWIT Aspiration Winners from Las Cruces Samantha McGuinn Noor Muhyi Cindy Yen

76. And now, the moment we have all been waiting for…. Irene Lee, President of the Board of Directors, the envelopes please.

77. But first, kudos go to Cleve Moler for being the 2012 Computer Pioneer Award Recipient, IEEE Computer Society "For improving the quality of mathematical software, making it more accessible and creating MATLAB"

78. Third Place Winners: Team 56, La Cueva High School Optimizing Community Detection Alexandra Porter, Stephanie Djidjev, Lauren Li

79. Second Place Winner: Team 72, Los Alamos Middle School Computer Simulation of Dark Matter Effects on Galaxy Collisions Cole Kendrick

80. First Place Winner: Team 82, Manzano High School Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Plaques in a Transgenic Mouse Brain Using Image Analysis of SPION-­Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images Jordan Medlock

81. First Place Winner's Project Overview

82. The Last Word David Kratzer, Consult

83. Delicious burritos will be served in the kitchen behind the auditorium after the awards ceremony. Your choice of Bacon/Green Ham/Red Sausage/Red Veggie/Green