Yes we can help you out. So Gridcoin is similar to other cryptocurrencies, the main difference is it rewards you for using your CPU/GPU on valuable work. Most coins use hashes which are mathmatical solutions, but they have no meaning, and only one solution is used and all the rest are discarded, not very efficient.

Gridcoin uses BOINC which has many different projects, but they are all doing something useful with the solutions. World Community Grid hosts many projects like searching for cures to childhood cancer, Ebola, AIDS. You can search for new huge prime numbers, help make a 3d map if the milky way, understand the orbits of asteroids, search for new fundamental particles at the Large Hadron Collider and a lot more.

Take a look at the project list here, it has links to more info about each project.