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- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:14:29 EDT
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- From: Jeanne Miller <jeanne@TC.Cornell.EDU>
- Subject: SuperQuest '93
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- | SuperQuest |
- | The Computational Science Challenge |
- | for High School Students and Teachers |
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- | Promoting the study of high school science through the use | | of
- advanced computing resources |
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- A science project and a computer are all you need to become a part of
- SuperQuest, the national science competition for high school students and
- teachers. Winners will attend one of five SuperQuest Summer Institutes to
- explore the world of computational science through hands-on experience!
- SuperQuest challenges high school students to use advanced scientific
- computing to explore and understand science and mathematics.
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- The 1993 competition is just getting underway, so get your team together
- now! SuperQuest teams are made up of one or two teacher- coaches and four
- students from grades 9 through 12. Teams can submit one group project or
- individual student projects. Problems can be from any scientific,
- engineering, or mathematics discipline, as long as they require computing
- resources for analyzing, modeling, or visualizing important aspects of the
- project. Students and their teacher-coaches may want to analyze patterns
- in music, study traffic jams, study the formation of snowflakes, or
- visualize ultrasonic surgery. The teams with the best projects are
- SuperQuest winners.
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- PRIZES
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- Winning teams will participate in an exciting three-week Summer Institute
- to learn about advanced scientific computing and computational science.
- Travel to a nationally known advanced scientific computing center, in
- addition to room and board, will be provided by the SuperQuest program.
- This is just the start of a year- long adventure in exploring science back
- home, as students continue their research using workstations awarded to
- their high schools as part of the SuperQuest program.
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- The winning schools will also receive network access and time on a
- high-performance computer to allow the students ample resources to
- complete their projects and to allow the teacher-coaches to use the
- computer in their math or science classroom.
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- Winners also receive stipends of $3,000 for each teacher-coach and $1,000
- for each student.
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- SuperQuest is a partnership of the Cornell Theory Center, the National
- Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Northwest Regional SuperQuest
- Center, Sandia National Laboratories, and the University of Alabama in
- Huntsville/Alabama Supercomputer Network, with support from the National
- Science Foundation and corporate sponsors. In 1992, SuperQuest received
- support from Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Cray Research, Inc.,
- Intel Corporation, Cisco, Inc., Advanced Digital Communications
- Consortium, and other corporations.
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION
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- Send in the requested information below via electronic mail to
- superquest@tc.cornell.edu, or call 607-255-4859, for an application
- booklet- it explains SuperQuest rules and includes entry forms and
- information for teams, schools, and parents. Get your booklet now; it
- will help you get started (Booklets are available hard-copy only). The
- registration deadline is March 1, 1993.
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- Submitted to EDTECH by: Jeanne Miller Jeanne@TC.Cornell.EDU
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