README in pub/stepinfo/1993workshop/MSWord-RTFdocs available via 
anonymous ftp to rohan.sdsu.edu

kris stewart
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STEP = Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program

     This is project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
to explore how the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) can have
an impact on high school science courses.  The focus is on using
the staff, the researchers and the facilities of SDSC to enhance 
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE activites in the high school classroom.

     The development of the curricula materials for the first
summer workshop was completed summer 1993 and these materials are 
available at this anonymous ftp site to help facilitate similar programs
at other High Performance Computation Centers (HPCC).

     The program is adminstered by UCSD Extension.  For further
information on STEP you should contact the PTEST office (534-0407)
or Pat Sumi at 534-3442.

     The first workshop was held July 6-30, 1993 at SDSC.   

The program will run for 3 years with 46 high school science teachers
from San Diego county participating.  The summer workshops are 
augmented with meetings during the academic year so that the teachers
will have a forum to discuss future plans, new ideas, improvements, etc.

Dr. Kris Stewart, Assoc. Professor, Computer Science, SDSU
                  Computational Science Curriculum Coordinator, SDSC
                  Project Cooordinator, STEP

(stewart@cs.sdsu.edu)

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Brief Description of STEP:

Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP):  This three-year
$1.6-million grant from NSF is designed to attract Latinos, Filipinos, and
other underrepresented minorities to careers in math and science by helping
their high school teachers incorporate modern computational methods and
examples into their class curricula through hands-on training at the San
Diego Supercomputer Center.  This program is being led by Dr. Kris Stewart,
computational science curriculum coordinator at SDSC and associate
professor of mathematical science at San Diego State University.

This program  began with an intensive month-long workshop at SDSC in July
1993, which covered the following topics:

*       Introduction to C programming.

*       Telecommunications and the use of the Internet for electronic mail
and file transfer (via direct Internet connections and over phone lines).

*       Computational science through the use of cross-platform software
such as MATLAB (the teachers have Macintoshes or PCs on their desks; MATLAB
runs on those platforms as well as on Sun, SGI, and Cray hardware).

*       Introduction to the staff and resources of the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (CRAY Y-MP, Intel Paragon, Advanced Scientific
Visualization Laboratory, and Computational Biology Laboratory). 

*       CERFnet, the California Education and Research Federation Network
(CERFnet has donated accounts to support the teachers' telecommunications
needs).

Similar workshops will be held the summers of 1994 and 1995, each one
building on the skills developed previously.  The second year of the grant
will focus on modeling, especially environmental modeling.  It is thought
that environmental studies provide a cross-disciplinary forum that will
involve the high school teachers (and eventually their students) in
projects that use computational power to model problems of concern to
everyone.  

This hands-on training will be complemented by periodic meetings of the
group throughout the academic years to share experiences and stay current
with new developments in computational science and technology.

This program is training 46 teachers from the following school districts:

Alta Vista High School & Rancho Buena Vista High School
Bonita Vista High School
Carlsbad High School & Valley Junior High School
Chula Vista High School
Escondido High School
Gompers Secondary School
Hoover High School
Kearny High School
Lincoln Prep High School
Mar Vista High School
Mira Mesa High School
Morse High School
Mountain Empire Jr. and Sr. High School
Oceanside High School
Point Loma High School
San Diego High School
San Dieguito High School
San Pasqual High School
Southwest High School

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An overview of the files distributed at STEP in July 1993:

In the directory MSWord-RTFdocs we have made available the actual
handouts in the Interchange Format provided by Microsoft Word allowing
them to be used by MSWord running on an IBM PC or Macintosh.  The
file extension .rtf indicates the Interchange format and should be
uploaded/downloaded at text (NOT BINARY).

You must have Microsoft Word in order to read these files.

Lead-Teachers/
Matlab-Handouts/
0README <<-------------------------this file you are now reading
StepProgram/
old-ones/ <-- not readable because holds very old versions

Lead-Teachers:
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Each Lead Teacher (Doug Blackington, Hal Cox, Olin Elliott,
                   Dave Harlow, Rick Rule, Tim Tolwer)
was asked to prepare a short write up on "Favorite Internet Sites"
and "Introduction to the Internet".  These has been encoded with
file names referencing the Lead Teacher's first name.  The first
column is size (in bytes).

2362 Nov 13 17:11 ifav-cox.rtf
2447 Nov 13 17:11 ifav-tim.rtf
2174 Nov 13 17:11 ifavdave.rtf
3436 Nov 13 17:11 ifavdoug.rtf
4125 Nov 13 17:12 ifavolin.rtf
4344 Nov 13 17:12 ifavrick.rft
2122 Nov 13 17:12 inet-cox.rtf
2794 Nov 13 17:12 inet-tim.rtf
2673 Nov 13 17:13 inetdave.rtf
3898 Nov 13 17:13 inetdoug.rtf
3737 Nov 13 17:13 inetolin.rtf
3919 Nov 13 17:14 inetrick.rtf

8256 Nov 13 17:14 stepolin.rtf <-- Olin Elliot also wrote an intro to STEP

StepProgram:
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 9182 Nov 13 17:05 STEP-int.rtf    intro to STEP
22311 Nov 13 17:06 STEP-syl.rtf    syllabus for summer workshop
32306 Nov 13 17:01 allgsite.rtf    list of all gopher sites
 4447 Nov 13 17:01 beg-goph.rtf    beginning instructions on gopher
30517 Nov 13 17:02 core.rtf        Calif. Online Resource for Education info
 8321 Nov 13 17:02 elm-fold.rtf    instruction on elm (unix mailer) folders
 5035 Nov 13 17:02 elm-inst.rtf    instruction on elm (text based, menu driven)
 5213 Nov 13 17:02 elm-sign.rtf    elm signature "how to" info
30282 Nov 13 17:03 email-ex.rtf    email exercises used to get folks going
52896 Nov 13 17:03 ethcslec.rtf    ethics lecture (author: dan sulzbach)
16611 Nov 13 17:03 ethcsscn.rtf    ethics scenarios (used for student essays)
30398 Nov 13 17:04 gofstp-1.rtf    gopher and step
17482 Nov 13 17:04 learn-vi.rtf    learning vi (unix editor)
 4900 Nov 13 17:04 log-home.rtf    how to log on from home (to ucsd machine)
17172 Nov 13 17:05 moreinet.rtf    more information on the Internet
17413 Nov 13 17:05 software.rtf    how to obtain software (Mac/PC) from Internet
72308 Nov 13 17:07 unix-int.rtf    an introduction to UNIX

Matlab-Handouts:
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13605 Nov 13 17:15 mat-intr.rtf    introduction to MATLAB
15369 Nov 13 17:15 modeling.rtf    introduction to modeling
18117 Nov 13 17:16 stochmdl.rtf    a stochastic model, gene distribution
 9909 Nov 13 17:16 rabfox.rtf      population dynamics model
 6824 Nov 13 17:15 chem-mdl.rtf    a reaction-diffusion model
 8512 Nov 13 17:15 projtile.rtf    a projectile model (cannon shot ODE)

Communcations Packages:
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Zterm was the recommended "shareware" software for Macintosh users 
Telix was the recommended "shareware" software for IBM/PC users

