SC05 Education Program now accepting applications

released May 03, 2005

Applications are being accepted through May 23 for the SC05 Education Program. The theme for this year's program is "Engaging and Empowering Educators: High Performance Classroom."

The SC05 Education Program will offer a unique learning experience for teachers and students in Seattle, Nov. 11-15. With the guidance of top scientists and preparatory training specialists, undergraduate faculty, middle and high school teachers, and students will form teams of nine and will complete on-site research projects to develop new teaching modules that involve the use of high-performance computing (HPC).

Applications for individuals and smaller teams are also being accepted in which case team formation will be facilitated upon selection.

The focus for participants this year is to promote and apply computational science across a variety of content areas, including:

• Nanotechnology
• Life Sciences
• Visualization
• Earth and atmospheric sciences
• Computer science
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Physics

All instruction will be integrated with existing national and state science and mathematics teaching standards.

These teams will be exposed to hands-on tutorials that focus on how HPC applications, such as computer modeling and visualization and data analysis, can be applied to enhance classroom learning. Educators and students will gain experiential knowledge based on proposed on-site projects that demonstrate how to leverage, and use, networked computing systems in their classrooms. An additional benefit is the participants' exposure to leading industry, academic, and research programs as part of the SC05 conference.

Applications can be submitted online at http://www.sc-submissions.org/. More information about the Education Program is available at http://sc05.supercomputing.org/programs/edu-outreach/.

SC05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will convene Nov. 12-18 in Seattle. Under the theme "Gateway to Discovery" SC05 will showcase how high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis lead to advances in research, education, and commerce. For more information about the conference, please visit http://sc05.supercomputing.org/.

 

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