The Impact of Cyberinfrastructure on Your World
TeraGrid Student Contest 2007
Entries are due April 13, 2007

Sponsored by the TeraGrid Project
www.teragrid.org

Call for Participation

Who? High School, and Undergraduate Students (Individuals and Teams)

You are invited to showcase your talents and creativity to convey to others how cyberinfrastructure will impact your world! We want to know your perspectives on how cyberinfrastructure will transform your world well into the future! You have a unique opportunity to inspire others to learn about and use cyberinfrastructure to address the needs of the community and the world around you.

What Does Cyberinfrastructure mean to you?
The phrases “cyberinfrastructure” and “grid computing” are being used around the world to describe the way researchers and educators are connected 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, teachers, students, policy makers and the general population? What opportunities for you and others around the world come to mind as you think about cyberinfrastructure?

Share your ideas and talents and be recognized for your creativity!
Tell the world how cyberinfrastructure touches your life today and tomorrow, and how it can benefit scientific discovery, learning, and the global community.

Choose a perspective that interests you; for example, you might focus on what it means for your life and your future; the benefits to one or more fields of scientific discovery; education, health care, or economic development; or you may want to address diverse cultural perspectives (please include English translations of any non- English materials). Think “outside the box” and imagine the possibilities!

Use any medium you prefer, or mix and match media, including (for example):
• Poster
• Radio advertisement
• Video advertisement
• Short essay or article
• Web page
• Podcast
• Second Life space

Keep your entry 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 instructions on the TeraGrid web site: http://www.teragrid.org/2007competition/.

Please complete an on-line registration form with your contact information, information about your school, and the audience you plan to address in your submission. The registration form can be found on the TeraGrid web site at http://www.teragrid.org/tg07/submissions/students/author/submit.php.

Entry Details

• 1 entry per student or team/group
  
• Individual entries and group entries
  
• Open to full-time students in any high school, college or university in the US
  
• Ten winning entries based on judging criteria.

Prizes
Ten winning entries will receive an Apple™ iPod. Winners will be invited to attend the TeraGrid Conference June 4-8, 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin to learn more about TeraGrid and meet with the people that are helping to make cyberinfrastructure achieve tremendous benefits for scientific discovery, learning and society. Winning students will also be invited to a special luncheon with scientists from the National Science Foundation during the TeraGrid Conference. 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 finalists in each category (high school and undergraduate) will be judged during the TeraGrid Conference 2007. Prizes (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) will be awarded in each category, high school and undergraduate The 1st Place prizes will be all expense paid trips to Supercomputing 2007 – the annual premiere high performance computing conference – to be held November 10-16 in Reno, Nevada. The 1st Place winners are not eligible to compete the following year.

What are the judging criteria?
A panel of scientists and educators will judge entries based on the following attributes:

1. effective articulation of the benefits of cyberinfrastructure to the targeted
   audience,
2. ability to clearly convey what you think cyberinfrastructure is, and what it has the potential to provide,
3. compelling nature of the campaign to interest the target audience and to be clear and understandable, and
4. Effective use of the medium.

Entries must be received by April 13, 2007.
Application forms are available at http://teragrid.org/tg07/submissions/students/author/submit.php.

Winning entries and other submissions will be posted to the TeraGrid web site (www.teragrid.org). All entries become the non-exclusive property of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory and will not be returned. Winning submissions may be distributed to local media and reprinted at the discretion of the TeraGrid project.

Submissions chosen to compete at the annual TeraGrid Conference will be notified by May 4, 2007.

Questions? Please contact us!
TeraGrid 2007 • Wisconsin Union Conference Services
800 Langdon Street • Madison, WI 53706 • Phone: (608) 265-8012 • Fax: (608) 265-8299
Email: teragrid@union.wisc.edu

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