NCSA NEWS

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI) a $1.03 million grant to train 200 teachers over the next two years in the field of computational science. Training sessions will take place at SC2000 and SC2001, the annual high performance networking and computing conference.

The project is the first of its kind to partner EOT-PACI with the annual SC conference. It will provide a forum for teachers to explore the most productive ways to incorporate computational science and visualization into the high school curriculum. It will also offer an opportunity for schools with vastly different populations and science and math programs to discuss and learn from each other's experiences.

"The overall goal of this program is the development of a core group of teachers who, through a rich and stimulating environment including interactions with leading computational scientists and year-round support, will reach out from within their school districts to share their knowledge and expertise with other teachers," Scott Lathrop, EOT-PACI program manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), said. Lathrop is one of five co-directors working with Principle Investigator Jeffrey Huskamp on the project.

Two hundred teachers, participating in teams of four each, will be selected from a national pool of teacher applicant teams. These teacher teams may come from one school district or from several cooperating school districts. The teams will include two science teachers, one mathematics teacher and one school administrator. Applications for the first 100 teachers participating in the session at SC2000 are due May 28.

The application can be found at http://www.ecu.edu/si/te/te_app.cfm. SC2000 will be held Nov. 4-10 in Dallas.

For more information on this project, see http://www.scd.ucar.edu/sc2000/. For a comprehensive story on the project, see the EOT-PACI website at http://www.eot.org/NE/edulead.html.

Access Online | Posted 3-28-2000