SYRACUSE

The proposed activities will allow for broader participation among diverse groups of students and teachers within the Syracuse area. In addition, transformative broader impacts are anticipated based on the syner-gies among the component features in the cyberinfrastructure tools to be developed in this project. First, the simulations are based on free open source software that can be customizable by other groups. Second, the user interface will be accessible to users with basic computer proficiency. From a curricular point of view, the interface-driven simulations unveil the concepts, relationships, processes, mechanisms, models, and applications which are otherwise hidden in the methodological/algorithmic complexities. Third, the potential for expansion of the cloud-enabled approach is limitless. A natural extension of the demonstra-tion project is to make the use cases accessible to a large number of schools in the I-90 corridor of Upstate NY State. Nationwide implementation can also..