Information technologist
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by Becky Ruttenberg and Anatta
High school students from Colorado and Wyoming showed
their ingenuity at the Colorado Computational Science Fair on 9 May 1998 at NCAR in
Boulder. The fair, open to the public, was cohosted by Colorado
State University (CSU) and NCAR, and funded by the National Science
Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Silicon Graphics, Inc.
gave prizes to participants.
The 68 projects on view, created by 153 students, were
submitted from nine high schools in Colorado and one in Wyoming. Students could enter one of two categories:
computational science, where students used computers to solve science
problems, or information technology, such as World
Wide Web applications.
Projects were on view in the morning, followed by an
awards ceremony after lunch. Keynote speaker Morris Weisman,
a scientist from NCAR's Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division,
discussed "How Numerical Models Help us Forecast Tornadoes." SCD network engineer Pete Siemsen gave a talk on "Introduction to Networking."
The envelope, please . . .
St. Mary's Academy in Englewood, George Washington High School
in Denver, Platte Canyon High School in Bailey (all Colorado schools) and East High School in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, took first-place prizes. Other schools around Colorado also won awards.
Two of the first-place projects will participate in the Adventures in
Supercomputing (AiS) 1998 National Exposition in Washington, D.C., on 19-20 June. They are "The Path of a Comet," by Kelly O'Brien, Lisa Martinez,
Kate Gregg, and Leah Mencin from St. Mary's Academy in Englewood, and
"Recursive Topographic Cost Analysis Project," by Ken Scott and Holly
Sullivan from George Washington High School in Denver.
For more information on the 1998 Colorado Computational Science Fair,
see:
www.scd.ucar.edu/ois/ccsf.
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