Welcome to the High School students out there crunching Rosetta. We're hoping to bring more like you to the project. Could you help us? We'd like to know some things about you.

1) What is your age?
2) How did you find out about R@H?
3) How long do you think you'll be crunchin' R@H?
4) Are you finding the information you need on the project website to understand it?
5) Does your science teacher know about this stuff?
6) Does your school have a team? Are you competing with another school?
7) If so, who organized the competition? (Principal? Science teacher? Biology teacher? Parents? Students?)
8) Have an ideas how to make the project more interesting to people your age?

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1) What is your age?

18

2) How did you find out about R@H?

I crunshed for United Devices years ago and came to think about it again.
Installed the client again, and saw they had a prediction project going.
Didn't like the thing so started to google around for alternatives.
Found BOINC at found the team BOINC@Denmark and a list of the projects.
Switched around a bit between the different projects. Tried to figure out what they were and what I was helping and who I was helping.
The choice has come to CPDN as single project on my laptop. And 50/50 Einstein and Rosetta on the desktop.

3) How long do you think you'll be crunchin' R@H?

As long as I find grid computing exciting, and the possibility is present.

4) Are you finding the information you need on the project website to understand it?

It's a bid spread across the page, but it's there. But if your new target is high school students, then I sugest to shine the scientific stuff up a bit. Some illustrations/animations etc. would helo I think.

5) Does your science teacher know about this stuff?

I've no idea. He's never talked about it

6) Does your school have a team? Are you competing with another school?

Not that I'm aware of.

7) If so, who organized the competition? (Principal? Science teacher? Biology teacher? Parents? Students?)
8) Have an ideas how to make the project more interesting to people your age?

Apperances... It has to look exciting to catch the first interest. Then it should be easy to figure out what the hole thing is.

Perhaps educational material should be made, so Rosetta was introduced through the education.

I know CPDN has some program like that.


My first 5-cents.

- Knorr

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1) What is your age?
17

2) How did you find out about R@H?
I followed many other members from Find-a-Drug when the project came to a close

3) How long do you think you'll be crunchin' R@H?
I'll crunch until the science goes beyond me

4) Are you finding the information you need on the project website to understand it?
I understand everything i need to know... but i do study A-Level Chemistry and the biochemistry in there really helps the understanding

5) Does your science teacher know about this stuff?
Probably not

6) Does your school have a team? Are you competing with another school?
My college has a team over at Folding@Home so they wont change projects now :(

7) If so, who organized the competition? (Principal? Science teacher? Biology teacher? Parents? Students?)
It was organised by a student who got in touch with the IT Department

8) Have an ideas how to make the project more interesting to people your age?
Rather than advertise the project from a science point of view perhaps advertise the computing side. It is my opinion many more teenagers will be interested in the computer side of the project than the science. Teenagers just love messing with computers ;) but far less like science from my experiences

Hope this proves useful

Rob

Good stuff! Thanks to knorr and rob. I'd love to hear from more of you. But if you're too bashful to make a post, please at least pick the one that is most similar to how you would have answered the questions, and click on the rate: "+" sign beneath their text.

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Feet1st, Yeah, this is good stuff. The beginning of our possible high school competitions that you and the rest of us have talked about. Even two posts shows that we can have some people already interested. Would be nice to have competitions between schools taking place like we talked about. Good stuff....

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The beginning of our possible high school competitions that you and the rest of us have talked about.

Yes, that's my purpose here. I'm specifically hoping for more input into question #8, "ideas how to make the project more interesting to people your age".

It's been a long time since I was a teen, or had any sense of what a teen finds "cool" and interesting, and what's "lame" and boring.

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I've managed to advertise this project to a few ppl i know around college and on msn. 4/5 of them know nothin about the science behind the project and dont seem particularly interested....yet i convinced them to join. The only thing they have in common is the fact they sit on computers for huge chunks of time doing not a lot.
I set the rosetta web address as my personal message on my msn and had quite of lot of people tell me they'd clicked it...although very few of them go on to download Boinc. Dont know how useful this post actually is to you guys but i'm trying to spread the word through my msn contacts and hope others will do and are doing the same

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