EOTPACI

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EOT/PACI

• NSF visit
• May 23, 2002
• Dr. Rozeanne Steckler
• Director of Education, SDSC

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EOT-PACI was born of two cooperative agreements

• The Education, Outreach and Training aspects
  of each of the two PACI awardees is an example of
  an area where the combined efforts of both
  partnerships will be coordinated into a
  Program-wide activity which will have stronger
  national impact.

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to develop human resources to understand,
formulate, and solve problems through the
innovative use of emerging information
technologies.
The mission of EOT-PACI is
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The goals of EOT-PACI are to

• Demonstrate the use of NSF PACI technologies and
  resources among diverse audiences.
• Increase the participation of under-represented
  groups, including persons with disabilities, in
  computer science, engineering, and information
  technology.
• Enable broad national impact in education,
  government, science, business, and society with
  systemic, sustainable, scalable programs.

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EOT-PACI Organization
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K-12 Programs

• Envision, Explore, Engage
• TeacherTECH
• SDSC Science Enrichment Program

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E3 Multimedia Project
The Envision, Explore, Engage mission is to
develop interactive learning modules and tools
that make computational science and other
research areas comprehensible to young students.
E3 brings together world-class researchers,
teachers and multimedia developers in a
collaborative effort to produce innovative
learning tools. We then provide these learning
tools to the general public free of charge to
expose students to a whole new world of knowledge
and possibilities.
Over 4,000 CDs distributed nation-wide (and
internationally)
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E3 Computational Science
Core unit covering basics of computers,
networking, supercomputing, computational
science, and visualization. This unit also
contains specific information about SDSC.
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E3 Molecular Science
Everyday World
Molecular World
Cellular World
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2-Week Summer Institute Focusing on the use of
technology in K-12 education

• Replication of a program started at Rice
  University
• Intensive technology training from ETL staff in
  web page design and multimedia, computer
  graphics, robotics, and computational science.
• Explore diversity issues in science/math/technolog
  y through presentations and group discussions.
• Utilize online resources as a research, teaching,
  collaboration tool.

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SDSC Science Enrichment Programs
Goals

• Open a world for underrepresented youth (women
  and minorities) and enable them to reach for
  their dreams by exposing them to science and
  adding to their knowledge base.

• Sustain and advance students interest in science
  with a special emphasis on minority girls.

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Successful Girls ? Successful WomenA Partnership
for the Future
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Balboa ElementaryMath/Technology Partnership

• The Math Technology Project was created to
  develop students' interest in mathematics, using
  the broad spectrum of technology that we have
  today as tools to assist in the learning process.
  The basic goal is to develop the students
  thinking patterns to go beyond written
  directions, by teaching more diverse problem
  solving and communication skills. Using this
  sequential thought process, we begin to see more
  excitement in learning and understanding of
  mathematics among these students.