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Four D.C.-area high school students will show off the high-performance computing skills they have gained during a summer program on Wednesday, Aug. 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. (Eastern) at ACCESS (901 North Stuart Street, Suite 800, Arlington, Virginia) and via the Access Grid. Since June, the four teens have been gaining hands-on HPC training through a unique program offered by the Joint Educational Facilities (JEF) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). With guidance from instructors and mentors from Bethune-Cookman College, Bowie State University, JEF, NCSA, Florida International University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the students have pursued individual research projects in cluster security, video editing, animation, and networking. The students have had access to a 26-processor high-performance computing cluster at TRECC (the Technology Research, Education and Commercialization Center in DuPage County, Illinois). TRECC is a program of the University of Illinois that is administered by NCSA and is funded by the Office of Naval Research. The students' presentations are open to the public and the media. For more information, contact Trish Barker, NCSA public information specialist, at 217.265.8013/tlbarker@ncsa.uiuc.edu or Stephenie McLean, NCSA Coordinator for Emerging High Performance Communities, at 703.248.0122/mclean@ncsa.uiuc.edu.