Transforming Chemistry Education through Computational Science

An ongoing US National Science Foundation-funded project, the Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science (ICLCS), involves instructing rural Illinois high school chemistry teachers in the educational uses of computation. The project's training helps participants become educational leaders and change agents. In this article, we report on the participants and their students' classroom experiences and discuss how petascale computing will impact educational uses of computational science and further promote scientific literacy..