Knowledge through computational power…
Recent studies have shown the more education and training an individual has, the higher their income potential.  The skills and competencies required in a post-industrial, information-based economy create a great challenge for many parts of the country. Through our educational initiatives, the Global Grid Exchange^® (G2EX) is doing our part to help.

G2EX recently partnered with Parabon^® Computation, Inc. and the Cisco Learning Institute to create a Pre-College Computational Chemistry Portal (CCPS).  This program provides pre-college students with a research-grade scientific portal - free of charge - for calculating the structure and properties of chemical molecules. These computationally intensive calculations are distributed to the computers of participating users via G2EX utilizing Parabon Computation’s Frontier^® Grid Platform.  CCPS serves as a gateway for exploration of basic chemistry concepts, validation of lessons learned in the classroom, and introduction for chemistry students to the tools and techniques that chemists use in their studies. Individual students or small groups of students can also use the service to explore topics in more detail, or to develop projects for submission to local, regional, state, or national science competitions.

G2EX also sponsors a bi-annual West Virginia Higher Education Student Project Competition.  This statewide contest encourages undergraduate and graduate-level college students to write grid-based computer applications in attempt to solve computationally intense problems in a variety of domains. 
Past entries have utilized G2EX in research across a broad range of fields - from decryption to wireless communications.