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Emerson Waldorf High School students, Molly Metz, Alex Kesling and Kate Brady have been selected to participate in the Shodor Scholars Program in Computational Science (SSP) at the Shodor Education Foundation this summer.

The SSP is a science, mathematics, and computing scholarship program for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors funded through a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The program provides an academically intensive education and research experience for a group of up to 14 competitively selected area high school students.

SSP students learn to use advanced computational science technologies, techniques, and tools to study a wide variety of scientific events. During the program students will cover the following topics:

• General overview of computational science
• Basic numerical methods
• Scientific programming
• Model validation and verification
• Communicating science using computational science
• Research methods incorporating computational science

The scholars will then work in teams to solve several small-scale modeling problems using a range of computing tools. Opportunities for informal and formal presentations are provided throughout the course. In the final week, students select a more substantial problem that they will solve using the design and computational tools they have studied.

The Shodor Education Foundation, is a non-profit education and research corporation celebrating its 10th Anniversary in the Research Triangle area. The Foundation is dedicated to the reform and improvement of mathematics and science education through the incorporation of appropriate computational and communication technologies into pre-college and college curricula. In addition to its many middle school and high school level workshops, Shodor also runs workshops for undergraduate faculty through the National Computational Science Institute , a program funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Shodor was recently selected to serve as a pathway to the National Science Digital Library , a program that is also funded by the National Science Foundation.