Scott Lathrop

Associate Director for Education, Outreach and Training at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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Champaign, IL 61820-5518
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scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Scott Lathrop is the Associate Director for Education, Outreach and Training at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this capacity, he and an energetic NCSA team work with more than 30 national partners on programs that are intended to develop human resources to understand and solve problems through the innovative use of emerging technologies. Mr. Lathrop has been working with educators, scientists, community leaders, industry representatives, and government agency personnel to learn together, to share strategies, and to apply information technology to the varied needs of these constituencies. Current activities of particular note:

• Program manager for the EOT-PACI activities at NCSA, a partnership involving more than thirty national organizations focused on education, outreach and training (http://www.eot.org)
  
• Co-chair for SC2002 and SC2003 Education Programs that bring together more than 100 undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers as teams from around the country to assist them with the integration of computational science tools, technologies and methods into their curriculum.
  
• Project Manager for REVITALISE (http://www.eot.org/revitalise) grant from NSF to address teacher retention and renewal in rural K-12 schools in Illinois and North Carolina through the use of visualization and communications technologies.
  
• Participating member of the EU-US Transatlantic Activity Group on e-Learning (http://us-eu.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) which is focusing on e-learning and knowledge management systems and collaborations across the Atlantic.