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TeraGrid CI-Impact Student Contest

Students—High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate—You are invited to enter!

Showcase your talents and creativity to convey to others how cyberinfrastructure will impact your world!

What Does Cyberinfrastructure mean to you?

The phrases "cyberinfrastructure" and "grid computing" are being used around the world to describe the mechanisms for connecting researchers and educators through gigabyte-per-second networks with teraflop computing systems, petabyte data collections, scientific collaboratories, and the latest software tools for scientific analysis and visualization in all disciplines. TeraGrid is an example of the state-of-the-art in cyberinfrastructure, that is touching our lives in many ways through the application of its grid computing capabilities to science and education. But what does cyberinfrastructure mean to you and to others in your community? How will cyberinfrastructure benefit scientists, students, and policy makers?

Share your ideas and talents and be recognized for your creativity!

Tell the world how cyberinfrastructure will touch your life well into the future, and how it will benefit scientific discovery, learning, and society.

Address your ideas to an audience of your choosing. Use any medium you prefer, or mix and match.

Your entry should be succinct—no more than 3 written pages; no more than 3 full screen shots via web pages; no more than 3 minutes of audio/video material. The final materials should be submitted in electronic form as specified in the competition web site instructions.

Entry Details

• 1 entry per student—Due May 12, 2006
• Group entries are not allowed.
• Open to full-time students in high school, in a college or in a university in the US

Prizes

Ten (10) semi-finalists will each receive an Apple™ 4GB iPod Nano. Five (5) finalists will be invited to attend the TeraGrid Conference June 12–15 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Finalists will be notified by May 19, 2006.) Travel, housing and registration costs for the winning students to attend the conference will be provided. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The five final entries will be judged during the TeraGrid Conference 2006 for a single TeraGrid Grand Prize. The grand prize will be an expense-paid trip to Supercomputing 2006—the annual premiere high performance computing conference—to be held November 11-17, 2006 in Tampa, Florida.