The online Summer Institute will be held June 22-July 2, 2020, for 20 teachers from the Oceanside Unified School District, San Diego Unified School District, San Marcos Unified School District and Sweetwater Union High School District. The ICAT through DM’s Summer Institute professional development program for teachers and Summer Academy for students were slated to be held at SDSC, but because of COVID-19 restrictions the programs have been moved online. “We’re pleased the DSEC Innovation Bloc grant, a collaboration between the UC San Diego Mathematics Project and SDSC, will bring crucial computer and mathematics skills and knowledge to military-connected, underserved, and underrepresented students in San Diego.” “UC San Diego CREATE is helping our campus to leverage its contacts and networks to support STEM learning for all students, particularly those from less advantaged backgrounds, to make use of learning opportunities funded by the DoD and its many STEM partners,” said Susan Yonezawa, associate director of CREATE and a co-director of the UC San Diego Math Project. The consortium is comprised of 18 organizations, includes UC San Diego CREATE, which serves as a program hub lead on the DSEC grant. The DSEC Innovation Bloc grant was awarded as part of a five-year, $75 million award by the DoD under which DSEC focuses on K-16 (kindergarten through college) STEM enrichment programs for military-connected and/or low-income students and educators, as well as workforce engagement, program evaluation, and public outreach efforts across the nation. Robert Sinkovits, director of SDSC’s scientific computing applications and lead for SDSC’s Education and Training program and Osvaldo Soto, director of the UC San Diego Mathematics Project at CREATE, are the Principal Investigators for the grant. The DSEC Innovation Bloc grant, called ICAT through DM - short for Introducing Computing and Technology Through Discrete Math problem-solving - will fund a Summer Institute for regional high school mathematics teachers and a Summer Academy for military-connected, underserved, and underrepresented rising seniors. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense STEM Education Consortium ( DESC) has awarded a one-year grant to the San Diego Supercomputer Center ( SDSC) at UC San Diego and the UC San Diego Mathematics Project housed at the university’s Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence ( CREATE), to introduce computing into high school math classrooms.
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