In 2024, Dr. Theresa Windus (Chemistry) and Dr. Ryan Richard (Ames Laboratory) along with their team received NSF funding to create a Sustainability Institute for Machine learning and Collaborative Open-source Development of Enzymatic Simulations (SIMCODES) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Iowa State University. The team of mentors will invite 30 students over the course of the project to attend on-site research experiences involving machine learning with enzymes at ISU for three years. RISE was contracted to serve as evaluator for the educational component of the project.