The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.03- million 
grant to a consortium of nine institutions to train 200 
high school math and science teachers in the latest computer 
technologies. One hundred teachers will begin the program 
at SC2001, the annual conference on high-performance networking 
and computing, to be held Nov. 10-16 in Denver. 
(The press release about this grant is posted at
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/SC2001/SC2001-PR-1-DRS.htm )

Teams with two science teachers, one mathematics teacher and 
one schooladministrator from the same school district (or 
from cooperating districts) will be selected from a national 
pool of applications.  For details and/or to apply, see 
http://www.sc2001.org/education.shtml
Applications are due by Monday, May 28, 2001.

The schools selected to participate in this project will 
represent a diverse student population from rural, urban, 
underserved, low wealth and less advantaged school systems.  
Special emphasis will be placed on providing support to low 
wealth school districts.

Teacher member benefits include (but are not limited to):

   -Paid attendance at the SC2001 Conference 
    (November 10-16, 2001)

   -Paid attendance at a two-week summer workshop at the 
    University of Alabama Huntsville with research excursions 
    to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (July 2001)

   -Participation in web cast seminars, computational science 
    and leadership topics, and on-line intra-classroom experiences
    including "live national hands-on laboratory exercises"

   -Development of learning modules that will become a 
    permanent part of the national online computational science 
    resource repository

Each teacher participant is required to have a laptop in order to
participate in the program -- The National Computational Science
Education Consortium will provide laptops for SC2001 teacher
participants.

Questions about this program?  
Email Becky Verastegui (verasteguirj@ornl.gov)