The Shodor Foundation has formed the Carolinas Consortium for
Computational Science to continue to assist the professional
development of undergraduate faculty from fifteen undergraduate
and minority institutions in North and South Carolina. These faculty
now form a base of support for Internet-mediated mentoring
activities with students across the country and around the world.
Among the ways the Foundation demonstrates its ongoing support of teacher preparation and enhancement, annual grants are made to the Teacher Program of the Supercomputing Conference series. Small grants are available for incorporating discovery-based activities into the science curriculum. The Foundation has been instrumental in the design and delivery of innovative workshops to familiarize K-12 teachers, undergraduate faculty, and business executives with Internet technologies, assisting them in incorporating these technologies into instruction and professional activities. The Shodor Education Foundation currently works with teachers and teacher education programs in Virginia, the Carolinas, rural Illinois, and the DoDEA system to support them in the use of computational and communication technologies in the curriculum. Close collaborations are maintained with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. |