Upgrade your knowledge about climate and disease research, science, and high-performance computing. Gain real-world knowledge and optimism for the future
Compete
Compete against schools across the country by running the BOINC software on your computer all while helping researchers working on the world’s toughest challenges. There’s nothing quite as exciting as competing for science.
Win
Win awesome prizes for your school like a pizza party, scholarships, and science classroom supplies! Choose from a catalog of goodies.
Support
This isn’t your everyday competition, because every computational cycle used in the competition goes directly to medical and climate research.
About
Registration Opens
February 12th, 2024
Competition Begins
March 25th, 2024
Competition Ends
May 7th, 2024
More information on the competition can be found in the Information Packet.
The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”.
Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research.
The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing.
More information on the competition can be found in the Information Packet.
The competition is sponsored by The Science Commons Initiative (SCI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to rebuilding the bridge of trust and engagement between the public and science.
