The Consortium

The National Computational Science Education Consortium (NCSEC) was formed in 1999 to lead a national effort focused on bringing computational science into secondary education classrooms across the country through the development of a rigorous professional computational science development program for teachers. Specifically, the goal was to build a national reservoir of teachers who could effectively utilize computational science in the classroom to enhance science and math education. Recently expanded, the current members of the NCSEC include the Association of Computing Machinery, East Carolina University, IEEE Computer Society, Krell Institute, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NPACI/San Diego Supercomputer Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The first project implemented by the NCSEC was the National Computational Science Leadership Program (NCSLP) involving the selection and training of 200 high school science and math teachers from across the nation.