Cazemba Richards
The 2010 TeraGrid conference in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania was a fun learning experience for me. Unlike last year the team was able to stay for the entire conference, so that was new. Also for the first time ever I had the chance to be roommates with a person I didn’t know. This year the team and I had the opportunity to compete against three other teams in the programming competition. For eight long hours we all worked hard on the four problems that were given to us, however we had fun and laughed a few times through it. After competing for the gruesome hours, I learned something  about teamwork. Is that when one is on a team, he or she must to do their part but if another team member’s task is not completed someone should help that team member. Besides the competition, I learned an array of new things such as how to code python, parallelism, Dell supercomputers and much more.  And I gained some cool new friends. All in all the conference was a good and productive four days.