Hi, I'm a high school student who runs WCG at home and I realized that the collective processing power of my school's computer labs could be a great asset to these projects. I haven't mentioned it yet but I'm sure the faculty would be happy to accommodate the grid.

I don't know if having WCG running in the background constantly is a good idea as some classes deal with very CPU intensive software. However, if we could have the default screensaver/standby mode to run WCG 100%, that would be a great compromise. In particular, I'm using the BOINC client on Discovering Dengue Drugs, the project graphics window would be a great screen saver as it would give students a visual sense of what's happening and I personally find the student writings from Lanier Middle School inspiring- and our biology teachers would be overjoyed by the sight of protein foldings. Is this already being done and/or could be easily implemented?

Also, and I may be getting ahead of myself here, if this could be done on a large scale then competition between school teams using client points could be used as incentives for school rewards, maybe even a scholarship or bursary. Excuse me if I'm out line suggesting this but I couldn't find whether or not WCG was non-profit or otherwise how financially feasible this would be. It's just that government funding for education isn't great and while school faculty may be all too glad to help out, I find they're sometimes too kind for their own good.

As a typical procrastinating student, I managed to come up with this near the end of the school year and I know our staff typically does computer reimaging/maintenance in the summer so a quick response would appreciated. Thanks for reading!

(Mods- apologies if this is in the wrong section, please move if so.)