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Broadening Participation in TeraGrid through Gateways

Broadening Participation in TeraGrid through Gateways. Nancy Wilkins-Diehr Kickoff meeting, January 17-18, 2008. What did we say in the proposal?.

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Broadening Participation in TeraGrid through Gateways

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  1. Broadening Participation in TeraGrid through Gateways Nancy Wilkins-Diehr Kickoff meeting, January 17-18, 2008

  2. What did we say in the proposal? • “The Pathways to Broadening Participation in TeraGrid (PBPTG) envisions researchers and educators from under-served communities (women, minorities and people with disabilities), and under-served institutions (e.g. Minority-Serving Institutions, EPSCoR institutions, Women’s Colleges, 2 4-year colleges, and rural institutions), and others from institutions not currently fully utilizing TG, re-conceptualizing old problems and generating new research questions with innovative thinking, methods and solutions taking unimpeded advantage of TG resources without impediment to advance innovative science, engineering or other academic studies, research and education.”

  3. Involve underrepresented students in simple gateway building • Students from underrepresented communities and/or institutions build a simple gateway for a specific purpose • Postpone focus on Gateway use by educators until after Tom’s study • Depending on the skills and interests of the identified group, we can build a simple or complex gateway that interfaces to TeraGrid resources • Complexity can vary depending on participants • Builds cross-disciplinary expertise (science and technology) so important today

  4. Use expertise in this group to identify communities • Many in this group with MSI, EPSCoR, HACU, and other connections • Do you have any groups in mind to work with? • Any CI-TEAM proposals we can build upon? • Avenues where underrepresented groups express nascent interest in computing or CI that we can build upon? SC attendees? TG attendees? • “People that have been involved in Pathways Activities I (outreach) and/or II (consulting), may elect to engage with their scholarly peers in Activity III (gateways) to broaden the impact for their community.” • But I think this could identify Gateway communities only in future years • “…we want to be sure to involve non-traditional communities. We will build on existing collaborations with people at the following Non-Traditional Communities of Interest (NTCI’s) while continuing to reach out to people at other institutions: Navajo Technical College, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at El Paso, Howard University, Elizabeth City State University, and University of Houston-Downtown.”

  5. Reusable materials • Create materials that result from this approach so others can do the same • Can host Gateway on TG machines or set up on participants’ home systems • Gateway uses TeraGrid resources on the back end

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