I could not be prouder of Travis and Harrison than I am right now. We attended the Students@SC dinner tonight with about 70 students, academics and the team from the Northrup Grummen Corporation. The dinner was for the student helpers at SC15. These are university students who do all the odd jobs around the SC conferences and, as a result, they get to sit in on the sessions and thereby get something back from the conference.
We set our poster up along the side of the dining room with the posters from QASMT and JMSS. We lamented the fact that, as we were a little nervous about trying to pass home-made electronic devices by the TSA here in the US, we didn't bring one of our sensors as the other two schools did. We then sat and enjoyed a fine dinner supplied by Northrup Grummen.
After dinner, the students from all three schools stood with their posters as the other guests circulated, keen to hear about our project and HPC and how all this could be possible at high-school level. I am certain we have inspired some research projects and perhaps Masters theses amongst the gathered university students.
The students from all three schools were nothing short of impressive as they engaged groups of people, answering questions and proving their knowledge of the projects and outcomes was thorough and their enthusiasm for what they were doing unquenchable. Jeanine Cook, chair of the Students@SC program was particularly impressed. Her focus has always been on undergraduate university students. To have senior high-school students learning about HPC and undertaking projects such as ours amazed her.
We have heard that Professor David Abramson from the University of Queensland's Research Computing Centre may be trying to get the students a time slot at the trade stand for Australian HPC on the trade floor later in the week. This will give our boys another chance to explain their work and impress people who work and study in this exciting field.
Well done boys!
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