SC07:Learning & Physical Challenges Program
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“Making the High Performance Classroom Available to All”
SC07 Learning & Physical Challenges Education Program
"Access to information and communication technologies creates opportunities to everyone in society, but perhaps no-more so than for persons with disabilities. No longer do the societal barriers of prejudice, infrastructure, and inaccessible formats stand in the way of participation. When available to everyone, information technologies foster individuals to reach their full potential, and for persons with disabilities it allows them to play their part in society’s development." -UN Rights of Persons with Disabilities eAccessiblity.
Continuing a Great Initiative
The SC07 Conference is the premier International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage, sponsored by ACM and IEEE. The SC07 Conference will be held November 10-16, 2007, in Reno, Nevada. For more information, please see http://sc07.supercomputing.org/
The theme for the SC07 Learning & Physical Challenges Education Program is "Very Special Techies: Expressing Diversity through High Performance Computing." The purpose of the SC07 Learning & Physical Challenges Education (LPCE) program is to empower LPC grades 7 through 16, faculty, educators, administrators, special education professionals and students with disabilities to apply computational science across a variety of content areas in classrooms.
Benefits to Participants
Inspire faculty, educators, administrators, special education professionals and students with disabilities to become more involved in high performance computing. Expose LPCE faculty, educators, administrators, and special education professionals teaching undergraduate, high school and even middle school courses in discipline-specific uses of high performance computing. Provide LPCE undergraduate students the opportunity to learn computational science and high performance computing from experts in the field. High Performance computing experts will present talks at the SC07 summer program (June 2008). Increase the visibility of the LPCE program to the full SC conference by providing access to focal point participation throughout the conference events. Increase awareness of high performance computing to the administration of LPCE programs.
Questions: edu@sc07.supercomputing.org
