Education Team and involve teacher participants in the SC2000 and SC2001 annual conferences for the high performance computing and networking community. The grant was officially approved on Feb. 22. As a result of teacher involvement in computational science, and consequently student involvement, students learn how to apply the scientific method, develop higher order thinking skills, and learn how to be better communicators. This project will gather together schools from across the country with different student populations and different science and mathematics programs to create a repository of curriculum modules and best practices that can be utilized by every high school in the country.
Students experience the value of learning scientific principles.
These teacher teams may come from one school district or from several cooperating school districts as needed to make up the four participants required for each teacher team. The teams should be formed around two science teachers, one mathematics teacher, and one school administrator. Applications for the first cadre of approximately 100 educators are due May 28. Program organizers are aiming for a geographically and demographically diverse set of participants. Huskamp said that he hopes that third-party sponsors will pick up much of the travel costs involved.