Today was the Judging Day for the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship.

My project was about internet-based distributed computing, which is the process of using many computers to approach a task that would be too complex or time-consuming for just one. Click here for my interactive Macromedia Flash introduction to distributed computing.

It seems my project must have been pretty interesting, because I talked to almost 15 (!) judges. They were definitely impressed by my work, as I had actually developed the software for the experiment.

Near the end of the day a director/judge wanted to interview me about my project. I was looking at other projects, so James and Richard pulled me back to my project and we talked about it for quite a while–15 minutes! He understood everything and we even ran through the code for my software.

I had a great science fair this year. I think my project was extremely successful and far more interesting than last year’s.

View the Flash Introduction
View the Report

Other people’s projects

During the public viewing time, I walked around and looked at other peoples’ projects. One that really caught my eye was “An X86 Robotics Development Platform Using Off-the-Shelf Components”. The student put together several robots using easily available components.