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STEMulate Learning!

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Help discover cures for childhood diseases and cancer, find clean water resources and develop clean energy technologies while inspiring the innovators of tomorrow!

"Scrap-heap Supercomputing" workshops using surplus equipment have already shown tremendous development of interest in STEM studies for middle-school through college-level participants!  These workshops have also contributed more than 4 years worth of computing power in barely 3 months total time to solving global issues such as cures for childhood diseases and cancer, as well as the search for clean water resources and clean energy technologies.

But, University equipment cannot be transferred directly to the schools, so I am constantly having to re-construct the entire workshop and can't leave the equipment at schools across an entire semester. With your help, my students and I will construct a permanant dedicated STEMulate Learning Lab that will inspire young learners while directing combined computing power towards solving key global issues such as the development of cures for major diseases. This will serve as a proof-of-concept for teachers to point to when asking their administratiors for permission to build their own.

Even today, the economy is Booming for STEM students who are seen at the innovative strength vital to the future. What is STEM? Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - what the President calls the key to winning the future! Millions of dollars flood into advanced STEM research centers. But what about teachers who don't have the million-dollar grants? Teachers like those at your neighborhood schools.

The project will create downloadable instructions teachers can use to make their own version of this lab using local resources! An excellent benefit of the system is that it works with both Microsoft and Linux computers and is based on free open-source software and hardware available to teachers everywhere.

If fund raising exceeds our target, we will build additional nodes for a second STEMulate Learning Lab to install at a second school (or perhaps a third and so on) with node naming opportunities extended accordingly.

NOTE: Organizations, schools or individuals interested in fully funding an entire site Lab can fully brand the Lab, name the site and all nodes, and recommend a US school for its deployment (subject to the School's permission).