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this Wednesday

Supercomputing Challenge goes live.

A working session with the teachers of the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute — your phone as a device you host, then a room that maps itself. It starts Wednesday at 2:00 PM, Mountain time.

Wednesday, July 15 · 2:00 PM Mountain
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Live now — the room is open.

Counting down to the live session.

The app is already open: play the laser lab, explore the single-device prototypes, and get your phone ready. At 2:00 PM Wednesday this becomes the door into the live room.

the curriculum

The apps.

Each app in this curriculum is its own directory under apps/supercomputingchallenge/. A new one built from a prompt becomes a sibling.

Laser Pointer Tracking Laboratory ▸

Track a laser dot off your webcam through three algorithms — brightest pixel, color mask, centroid — where each stage's failure chooses the next. Opens on the prompt that built it.

apps/supercomputingchallenge/laser

Your phone is a device you host ▸

The teacher landing: how the room comes together, the single-device prototypes (all local, nothing uploaded), and the four-hour arc for the week.

apps/supercomputingchallenge/sti

Understanding SimTable ▸

A model everyone can stand around — a live wildfire simulation projected onto real terrain. Scan the code and your phone joins the shared table.

apps/supercomputingchallenge/simtable

One ladder: your phoneone algorithm (the laser lab) → one model, many hands (the SimTable).

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