Supercomputing Challenge Monday Afternoon Message, November 19, 2012

Other Competitions

Though the Supercomputing Challenge hopes you will spend a lot of your time and effort on your Challenge project, after your other school work of course, there are other competitions that we learn about and would like to pass on in case you need additional challenges or want to broaden your interests.

American Computer Science League

The contests of the American Computer Science League (ACSL) are designed for middle school students, first year CS students and more advanced CS students. Please see their web site at http://www.acsl.org and write to info@acsl.org with any questions.

Project Euler

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems. See http://projecteuler.net

Rosalind

Rosalind is a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving. Take a tour <http://rosalind.info/problems/as-table/> to get the hang of how Rosalind works.

Google Code-in Contest

The Google Code-in contest gives pre-university students (ages 13-17) around the world an opportunity to explore the world of open source development. Students have the chance to work with mentors from 10 open source software projects on real world coding, documentation, user interface, research and quality assurance tasks. See http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/ and http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/downloads/detail?name=2012GoogleCode -inFlyerwithoutlinks-updated.pdf <http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/downloads/detail?name=2012GoogleCod e-inFlyerwithoutlinks-updated.pdf&can=2&q=#makechanges> &can=2&q=#makechanges

Albuquerque Data Apps Challenge

Use the datasets on ABQ Data to build creative and innovative applications for the public. See http://www.cabq.gov/abq-data/apps-competition-1

STEM Action Planning Summit

Challenge students from Capital and Santa Fe High, The Masters Program and the Academy for Tech & Classics and NM Tech joined teachers Irinia Cislaru and Bob Dryja and Challenge staff Patty Meyer and Celia Einhorn at the two day, statewide STEM Action Planning Summit last week. Our students were vital as they helped articulate action items for math and science teaching and learning.

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