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Contents 1 Bridge Day 1.1 Team 1.2 Title and Audience 1.3 Goal 1.4 Activities 1.5 Draft Schedule 1.6 Press Release 1.7 Certificate of Completion 1.8 Materials to provide participants 1.9 URLs of resources

Bridge Day

Bridge Day is scheduled for June 26, 2009

Team

Please indicate when you are leaving on Friday so we know who will be around to assist.

Bonnie Bracey is our leader.

Others assisting with planning and implementation include:

• Bob Panoff - leaving after lunch
• Patricia Jacobs
• Charlie Peck - leaving Friday evening or Saturday morning
• Diane Baxter
• Jeff Sale (in D.C. June 22-30 for both TG and NECC)
• Kathy Traxler
• Jim Rome
• Jim Ferguson
• Laura McGinnis - leaving Saturday morning
• Scott Lathrop - leaving at 4 PM to catch flight
• Pallavi Ishwad - leaving at 2 PM
• Brad Armosky - leaving at 4PM to catch flight

Other people who will be there to assist:

• Andrew Fitz Gibbon, Aaron Weeden, Sam Leeman-Munk
• Rob Steffen
• 2 student volunteers
• George Brett ghb at internet2.edu

Title and Audience

Computational Thinking with Middle and High School Teachers

Bonnie has led the recruitment - 34 teachers - and will continue to stay in touch with them in advance of the event

Goal

The TeraGrid Conference is planning a full day of activities specifically designed to engage middle and high school teachers that will be attending the NECC conference. The teachers will be engaged in hands-on activities designed to explore the rich array of resources and materials they can use in their classrooms to engage students in computational thinking.

Computational thinking is includes the use of information technology to prepare students with quantitative reasoning skills, parallel approaches to understanding our world, and the ability to utilize modeling and visualization tools and resources to learn and do math and science.

Activities

The activities teachers will be involved in will include:

• An introduction to computational thinking, modeling and visualization
• Exploring resources and approaches used in classrooms today that include lesson plans and student activities for inquiry-based learning
• Creating models and simulations using resources readily available to teachers and students

All participants are asked to bring a laptop to fully participate in the hands-on sessions. Seating is limited, please register early by sending e-mail to Bonnie Bracey at BBracey@aol.com. We will send all registrants additional information in advance of the event.

Draft Schedule

8:30-10 AM - Introduction to curriculum resources and tools available through NSDL, CSERD, HPC University, etc. - led by Bob Panoff - show videos of student excitement and engagement

10-10:30 AM - Break

10:30-12:00 - Using existing models - led by Bob Panoff - use of models from CSERD, NSDL, etc.

12:00-1:00 - Lunch

1:00-2:00 - experiencing parallelism - led by Charlie Peck - use of LittleFe, BCCD to experience impact of parallelism for learning in STEM fields

2:00-2:30 - Break

2:30-3:30 - Other activities for engaging students in computational thinking - led by Laura McGinnis and Jim Rome - JumpStart, rope tricks, other activities

3:30-4:00 - Discussions of next steps - led by Bonnie Bracey

Press Release

Bonnie and Scott to work on press release

Certificate of Completion

Bonnie and Scott to develop

Materials to provide participants

• TG booklets - science and EOT highlights
• list of mentors with contacts
• URLs of resources - see list below
• upcoming workshops they can attend
• on-line tutorials, resources
• science fairs
• fellowships, internships, etc.
• competitions
• evaluation forms
• Charlie to put materials on a USB drive, including BCCD to hand to all teachers
• Vensim and NetLogo to be on USB drive
• Alice on USB drive (if it fits)

Can we keep posters for teachers to see? or take home?

What should we send the teachers in advance of the conference?

• Maybe we could provide them with an account on some sort of portal where they can begin creating a social network. The TG09 conference site is built with Mambo which is one of the leading CMS and supports all types of social networking apps. The account login option is currently disabled, but maybe we can ask the admin to add some accounts and a login option. If not, perhaps we can set up a Google Site and encourage them to get a Google account. Wikispaces might be another option. It supports a wide variety of media in a very user-friendly format. I would suggest using this wiki but the MediaWiki interface is VERY clunky compared to Wikispaces.

• Perhaps we should send out a brief survey about their current knowledge and experience with HPC, social networking tech, etc..

•  ???
•  ???

URLs of resources

Please add to this list of resources we'll provide the teachers (please alphabetize as you add items)

• CMIST (Computational Modules in Science Teaching) - www.nrbsc.org/cmist
• Council on Competitiveness - http://www.compete.org
• Concord Consortium - http://www.concord.org
• Intel's blog talk radio series on parallel computing - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel
• CERN Rap video for great geek fun - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
• CSERD - http://cserd.nsdl.org
• HPC University - http://www.hpcuniv.org
• Internet2 K-20 MUSE (social utility for K20 teachers, projects, orgs) - http://k20.internet2.edu
• NSDL - http://www.nsdl.org
• Open Science Grid - http://www.opensciencegrid.org/
• SciVee - http://www.scivee.tv.
• SHODOR: a national resource for computational science education - http://www.shodor.org
• TeraGrid - http://www.teragrid.org

Resource providers:

• Indiana University http://uits.iu.edu/page/amee
• Internet2 http://www.internet2.edu
• LONI http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/
• NCAR http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/outreach/
• NCSA http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Training/
• NICS http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/new-to-hpc
• ORNL http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/education.shtml
• PSC http://www.psc.edu/eot/
• Purdue http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/index.cfm
• SDSC http://www.sdsc.edu/us/training/
• TACC http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/services/training/
• UC/ANL http://www.dep.anl.gov/

K-12 resources:

• Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice Universtiy - http://www.crpc.rice.edu/education/summaries.html
• Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences K-12 Resources - http://www.atmos.albany.edu/index.php?d=k12
• EOT PACI - http://www.eot.org
• NDSL resources for K-12 teachers - http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/
• Ralph Regula School of Computational Science - http://www.rrscs.org/k12.shtml

K12 curriculum sites:

• Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Education/
• University of TN, Knoxville, Math Archives http://archives.math.utk.edu/
• http://www.webmo.net/index.html

Training (online and synchronous):

• ANL Math & Computer Science - http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/tutorials/index.html
• Australian National University Computational Science Education Outreach and Training - http://comptlsci.anu.edu.au/tutorials.html
• Axel Kohlmeyer's VMD tutorial - http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/index.html#top
• Cornell University FLUENT tutorials (CFD) - http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/fluent/
• Cplusplus.com: C++ tutorial - http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster - http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~itf/dbpp/
• Exercises in simple cellular processes (mass action, michaelis-menten)
  • http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ccb/ (frames)
  • http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ccb/SiteExercises.htm
• FRAP and FRAP Tutorials work http://vcell.org/education/frap_tutorial/index.html
• Free Programming Resources: C++ tutorial links - http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cpptutor.html
• Free Programming Resources: Fortran tutorial links - http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/fortrantutr.html
• Grid Cafe: The place for everybody to learn about grid computing - http://www.gridcafe.org/
• LLNL Training - https://computing.llnl.gov/?set=training&page=index
• Maui High Performance Computing Center tutorials (un-maintained):
  • http://www.mhpcc.edu/training/workshop2/mpi_performance/MAIN.html
• Modeling cell biology with the Virtual Cell http://vcell.org/login/documentation.html
• National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing - http://www.nrbsc.org/education/
• NCSA's Visual Molecular Dynamics site - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
• NERSC's Scientific Computing tutorials - http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/help/tutorials/mpi/intro/print.php
• Scientific Computing and Visualization at Boston University - http://scv.bu.edu/documentation/tutorials/
• Various exercises using Virtual Cell or Matlab http://vcell.org/education/index.html
• William Gropp's, from ANL, MPI tutorial - http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/tutorial/gropp/talk.html

Computational Sciences Fellowships:

• http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs/
• http://www.shodor.org/students/programs/
• http://www.science.gov/internships/graduate.html
• http://www.science.gov/internships/
• http://www.hpcuniv.org/students/opportunities/