Los Alamos High School Freshman Tate Plohr Wins First Place In 2024 Supercomputing Challenge

Los Alamos High School freshman Tate Plohr, left, and his younger brother, Los Alamos Middle School student Linus Plohr with their 2024 Supercomputing Challenge awards, pose for a photo April 30 with their mother/mentor JeeYeon Plohr. Courtesy photo

2024 Supercomputing Challenge News:

Los Alamos High School (LAHS) freshman Tate Plohr is the first place winner in the 2024 Supercomputing Challenge.

The Supercomputing Challenge is an exciting academic year-long marathon open to all middle and high school students in New Mexico to solve real-world problems using computational science techniques.

This year, more than 40 teams with 120 members participated.

The final presentations were given April 29 at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the teams had an opportunity to tour the lab facilities.

The award ceremony was April 30. Plohr won first place for his project “Magnetic Reconnection”.

Top prize winners

  • Tate Plohr, Los Alamos High School
    First place
    “Magnetic Reconnection”
  • Harrison Schiek, Albuquerque Academy
    Second place
    “Water Runoff and Diversion Simulation”
  • Luke Rand, Greta Swanson, Nandita Ganesan
    Santa Fe Preparatory school
    “Computational Hydrodynamic Analysis for Speed Maximization (CHASM)”

Other Los Alamos student winners 

  • Kalliope Welch, Homeschool
    Finalists’ Judges Special Award in computational astronomy
    “Detecting Exoplanets Through Transits”
  • Helena Welch, Homeschool
    STEAM award, Computational Science award
    “Virtually Reconstructing Ancient Musical Instrument”
  • Linus Plohr, Los Alamos Middle School
    Expo Judges’ Special Award in User Interface award
    “DuoNumero: Multilingualism in Math”
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