During my first year of school in Hawai'i I beat out applicants from all 10 UH campuses to be awarded a U.S. Department of Defense paid internship at their supercomputing facility on the island of Maui.

My chosen field of apprenticeship was 3D Visualization, which ended up meaning Maya and Java3D. You can see the demo videos I created for my final presentation here (15sec, 2.0MB) and here (1min 8sec, 4.4MB), but please don't laugh at my animated programmer art. Programmers are very sensitive about their art.

Unfortunately I didn't get to work directly with the 11th fastest computer in the world, but I was able to explore some extremely high-tech facilities!