Elective sign up Question Title * 1. Please give you name and school Name: School Question Title * 2. Please pick an elective for Saturday night. Circuit Fashionwear -- Use technology to create an object to wear. Use a small battery, LED lights, and silver conductive thread to hand sew a lighted design into anything you desire. Patty Meyer and Mary Sagartz, Supercomputing Challenge and Project GUTS. Cafe Eavesdrop -- Computer Lab -- We've all heard that public Wi-Fi is an easy target for hackers but how easy is it really? We start by putting on our black hats to learn some simple techniques the bad guys use to monitor our Internet traffic. Next, we take what we have learned to help protect our data in the future. John Donahue, CAaNES, Computational Analysis and Network Enterprise Systems and Drew Einhorn, Challenge. Etscorn Observatory -- A unique star party. Observe the sky from 10,600 ft. Fractals -- Computer Lab -- Come to a hands-on workshop to learn the software packages Fractal Grower and Xaos. See photos of fractals in nature, applications of fractals and the relationship between fractals and chaos theory. Joel Castellanos, UNM Computer Science Department and Sam McGuinn, Challenge Alum, NMSU Game Room -- Billiards, Foosball, Air Hockey, etc. GitHub -- Computer Lab -- GitHub is a perfect format to share code with teammates and mentors. Learn online project hosting using Git. Includes source-code browser, in-line editing, wikis, and ticketing. Free for public open-source code. Louis Jenka and Randy Van White, Challenge Alums, NMT How to Start a Robotics Team at Your School -- Veteran Robotics Coach "The Hammer" Edington will provide participants with a brief description of BEST Robotics, Botball, and RoboRAVE to students interested in starting a robotics team. Having coached first place teams in all three of these Robotics Competitions, for those students who already have teams established, "The Hammer" will reveal some key trade secrets that will allow your team to compete at the next level. Creighton Edington, SODA (School of Dreams Academy) and Erick Chavez, Challenge Alum, NMT Mineral Museum -- See gold, silver, and precious gems, the objects of the Conquistador's travels and travails, glitter on glass shelves next to other spectacular mineral forms. Dr. Virgil W. Lueth, NMT Scratch -- Computer Lab -- Create, program and share your own interactive stories, games, music and art. Su Gibbs, Project GUTS and Sara Hartse, Desert Academy Team Building -- Win It In a Minute fun activities. Janet Penvelope, and Celia Einhorn, Project GUTS, Challenge Technical Writing -- Get tips on how to write your proposal and interim and final reports. Get a head start on your project! Kathy Pallis, Technical Writer Consultant Web Design -- Computer Lab -- For Beginners to Advanced Learn HTML Syntax, FTP, Cascading Style Sheets, java script, Applets, Server Side Scripts, Resource Booklet Peter Yanke, PY Multimedia and Nayeli Ramirez, Challenge Alum, NMT Werewolf Activity Otherwise called Mafia, Witch Hunt, or Pirates -- It is a party game modeling a battle between an informed minority (the Mafia) and an uninformed majority (the townspeople). JP Gonzales, Santa Fe Institute, Project GUTS, Challenge Mentor and Arlene Pino, Challenge Alum, CNM student. Are you ready for R? -- Learn to use R for data analysis and presentation. In spite of (or partly because of, depending on your point of view) its quirky language and default console-mode interface, R is quietly becoming a very widely used tool for data analysis (the fact that it's open source doesn't hurt). In recent years, a number of GUI add-in environments for R have been developed, to make it a little less intimidating. Nick Bennett, Numerix and Shaun Wilson, NMT Open Gym -- Middle School Dodgeball Open Gym -- High School Volleyball Done