Over 100 students had support to attend XSEDE12 either through the Student Engagement Program, the XSEDE Scholars Program, or funds provided by the National Science Foundation.

Fourteen students acted as Student Volunteers during the conference collecting presentations, assisting speakers, and providing setup for various conference activities.

The July 15 Sunday evening dinner included a keynote by Dr. Richard Tapia who spoke about the importance of education in achieving your goals.

There were two tracks of student and introductory tutorials led by Henry Neeman, who gave his Supercomputing in Plain English tutorial, in addition to hands-on activities using LittleFe supercomputers, which are portable six-node computational clusters.

Wednesday, July 18, was Student Day where more than 50 students participated in the Lunch with Interesting People. Fourteen teams participated in the Programming Competition which also used the LittleFe computational clusters, and 40 students presented posters during the Student Poster Competition.

The awards given out to students were:

Best High School Poster:

Mike Wu and Rekha Narasimhan
Torrey Pines High School
Position and Vector Detection of Blind Spot motion with the Horn-Schunck Optical Flow

Best Undergraduate Poster:

Joseph Peterson and Charles Wight
University of Utah
Reaction Modeling of Mesoscale Granular Beds of Explosives Subjected to Impact

Best Graduate Poster:

Andrew Kail, Kwai Wong, Elton Freeman and Jerry Baker
University of Tennessee
A Scalable Software Framework for Thermal Radiation Simulation

Student Programming Contest 1st Place Award:

Winning team - XSEDE Student Scholars Team 1, Coach - Alice Fisher
Manuel Zubieta
Justin Peyton
David Manosalvas
Nancy Carlos
Melissa Estrada
Grace Silva

Student Programming Contest 2nd Place Award:

Winning team - University of Michigan, Coach - Benson Muite
Brian Leu
Albert Liu
Parth Sheth
Zeyin Zhang