SCI: Collaborative Research: EPIC - Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure

EPIC：让人们参与网络基础设施由波士顿大学和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校领导的一项合作项目。EPIC的目标是通过提高人们对网络基础设施（CI）所提供的机会的认识，并通过教育和培训从K-12到专业实践的各个人生阶段的不同人群，以开发者、用户和领导者的身份充分参与到CI社区，从而培养人类的能力。为实现这一目标而设计的策略包括：1 .为各级科学和数学教育提供综合的计算科学教育和使用工具和资源的培训；2 .在教育和推广方面使人们能够获得先进的技术和工具；3 .通过支持特定的准入和包容性项目，并为EPIC的各个方面注入多样性、准入和包容性，确保多样性；建立一个由从事网络基础设施开发和使用的教育工作者、学生、研究人员和公民组成的充满活力的大型社区。广泛的合作伙伴将执行下列活动以支持这些战略：讲习班和会议；“培训培训师”活动；职业发展、指导和青年项目；多样性和无障碍项目；开发学习材料、软件和模拟工具，并在线传播材料、工具、资源、指南、报告和最佳实践。智力优势：EPIC将构建一个人类能力建设基础设施，扩展CI社区，使其包括更多有才华和多样化的人，作为CI的主要受益者。EPIC旨在展示使用先进计算基础设施教育、推广和培训伙伴关系（www.eot.org）项目中成功的社区建设实践的效果，并将这些实践扩展到更大、更多样化的社区。将对EPIC进行独立评估，以记录成功的关键因素，并为扩大规模和持续系统性变革方面的重大进展奠定基础。更广泛的影响：CI作为一个机构范围内的倡议的性质使得社区建设对其成功至关重要。通过明确地在CI计划中引入我们的社区建设活动，NSF有了一条通往包容性行为和过程的自然途径。EPIC对多样性的关注将确保CI充分吸引服务不足的人群，并加速美国劳动力为全球数字社会做好准备。EPIC实践的演示和文档将作为NSF和其他联邦机构的路线图。随着CI对科学和工程各个领域的影响加速，项目结果将为未来几年奠定基础。

EPIC: Engaging People in CyberinfrastructureA collaboration led by Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe goal of Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) is to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastruture (CI) 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 CI community as developers, users, and leaders. Strategies designed to meet this goal include:1. Providing an integrated spectrum of computational science education and training in the use of tools and resources, for science and math education at all levels,2. Enabling access to advanced technologies and tools in education and outreach,3. Ensuring diversity by both supporting specific access and inclusion projects and infusing every aspect of EPIC with diversity, access, and inclusion, and4. Establishing a large energized community of educators, students, researchers, and citizens engaged in developing and using cyberinfrastructure.An extensive cohort of partners will implement the following activities that support these strategies: workshops and meetings; "train the trainers" activities; professional development, mentoring, and youth programs; diversity and accessibility programs; development of learning materials, software, and simulation tools, and online dissemination of materials, tools, resources, guides, reports and best practices.Intellectual Merit: EPIC will construct a human capacity building infrastructure that extends the CI community to include a much larger number of talented and diverse people as primary beneficiaries of CI. EPIC seeks to demonstrate the effects of using the proven community building practices of the successful Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (www.eot.org) program and extending these practices to engage larger, more diverse communities. EPIC will be independently evaluated to document the keys to success and to lay the foundation for major advances in scale-up and sustained systemic change.Broader Impact: The nature of CI as an agency-wide initiative makes community building essential to its success. By explicitly introducing our community building activity within CI initiatives, NSF has a natural pathway to inclusive behavior and processes. EPIC's focus on diversity will ensure that CI fully engages under-served populations, and accelerates the preparation of America's workforce for a global digital society. Demonstration and documentation of EPIC's practices will serve as a roadmap to NSF and other federal agencies. The project results will lay the foundation for future years as CI accelerates its impact upon every field of science and engineering.