Education and Outreach at ScaleLessons Learned EOTPACIEPICCITEAM

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Education and Outreach at ScaleLessons Learned
EOT-PACI?EPIC?CI-TEAM

• Roscoe Giles
• TeraGrid 07
• June 5, 2007

Filling in for Roscoe today is Greg Moses,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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History

• Project Categories (Brochure)
• Professional Development
• Mentoring
• Learning Material Development
• Software and Online Information
• Youth Programs
• Diversity/Accessibility
• Conferences/Collaborative
• Experiences
• Metrics Evaluation
• Online Guides and Reports

EOT-PACI has created and sustained a
collaborative community of computational science
researchers and educators with common goals and
leveraged resources. Few of these partners had
interacted, much less collaborated, prior to the
grant.
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EPICProlog to CI-TEAM (2005-2006)

• to build human capacity by creating awareness of
  the opportunities afforded through
  Cyberinfrastructure and by educating and training
  a diverse group of people in all stages of life
  from K-12 to professional practice to fully
  participate in the Cyberinfrastructure community
  as developers, users, and leaders.

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CI-TEAM (2006--)Training, Education, Advancement
and Mentoring

• The creation of the CI-TEAM program signals
  NSFs commitment to join with the national
  science and engineering community in the support
  of projects designed to prepare current and
  future generations of scientists and engineers to
  create, advance and exploit cyberinfrastructure.

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EPIC Audiences

• K-12 Teachers and students
• College/University Faculty and students
• All disciplines, with an emphasis on math,
  science, engineering and technology
• K-12, Undergraduate and graduate students
• Informal Science Educators
• Life-long learners
• Administrators
• Researchers

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EPIC Partners

• BioQuest Curriculum Consortium
• Boston University
• Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC)
• Computing Research Associates
• Committee on the Status of Women in Computing
  Research (CRA-W)
• Florida International University
• University of Kentucky
• The Math Forum at Drexel
• Maryland Virtual High School

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Oregon State University
• Ohio Supercomputer Center
• Rice University
• San Diego Supercomputer Center
• San Diego State University
• Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
• SUNY Brockport
• Texas Advanced Computing Center
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

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EPIC Roadmap
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Virtual Institutes

• On-line venues for all interested to share ideas
  and work toward common goals.
• Current VIs
• Access Grid in Education
• Asynchronous Training
• Computational Science Curriculum
• Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social
  Sciences
• K-12 Education
• MSI Network Research
• Visualization in Education
• Women and Girls and CI
• All are welcome to join these discussions!

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Lessons Learned

• Empower people to address their own problems and
  interests. Particularly true for underrepresented
  groups in CI.
• Broad community building requires focus,
  leadership and a sustained effort over time.
• Create excellence through scholarly evaluation.
  Build it in, not on. Not everything works!

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