Letter from the Executive Director
Celebrating 15 Years
Has it really been fifteen years? Who would have thought!
And now Monte, our first middle school intern from 1994 is graduating with a Master's Degree from UNC! We have so many students who have gone on to do so well in college and graduate school. I like to say — because it is true — that our best service is to help good kids find how they can best serve society with their abilities and skills they have learned at Shodor. Sure, we have the best materials for math and science on the Web, and the workshops we do for college faculty and pre-college teachers are second to none. But those kids! My, they have grown!
We're doing all we can to make our student offerings more accessible by going out into the community. With small grants from several small foundations, we are providing workshops in schools and community centers in Durham and Chapel Hill, besides the many workshops we offer at Shodor itself. And now those workshops are not just in the summer, either! We're partnering with area school systems to make our workshops fit the school calendars, such as spring and fall break, and to have more afterschool offerings in area schools.
At the national level, Shodor continues to lead through the National Computational Science Institute and our partner projects, including HPCUNIV.ORG, the new portal for high performance computing. As we work to ensure that Computing MATTERS, we'll be looking to extend our collaborations locally and nationally. Let us know how we can help!