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Competition fosters computer skills in New Mexico schools
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This story is part of the State of Change project, produced in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. In New Mexico, computer science courses are not mandated by the state. Many schools in metropolitan areas offer these courses, but few rural school districts do. However, one rural school district has turned to New Mexico’s Supercomputing Challenge, an annual science and engineering competition, to offer computer science education. Melrose, New Mexico, may be small, but that hasn’t stopped its school from competing in the competition.