SGER : Research Experience for K12 (REK)

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IIS-0633930Elke A. Rundensteiner rundenst@cs.wpi.eduWorcester Polytechnic InstituteSGER: Research Experience for K12 (REK)This project seeks to inspire young people to consider advanceddegrees and skilled professions in computer science. The approachtaken towards outreach is unique. One, students are targeted at anearly stage, namely, in K12. Two, these K12 students are given theopportunity to first-hand engage in an active research project --working side by side with scientists (REU students, graduate students,and faculty) in the computer science department at WorcesterPolytechnic Institute. The two-tier involvement of participantsconsists of stage 1: smaller projects throughout the academic schoolyear, and and stage 2: in-depth projects during the subsequent summer.This project takes place under the umbrella of on-going NSF-projectsresearch projects in stream monitoring technology and itsapplications. Stream monitoring is a novel paradigm for processingqueries over data streams (instead of in a static database only),supporting applications such as sensor stream monitoring, fire spreadprediction, and network intrusion detection. The effectiveness ofthis outreach project is assessed based on standard pre- and post-surveys. As broader impact, participants are recruited from the(highly diverse) public school system of the City of Worcester. Thisexploratory project is to inspire the K12 participants to considerfuture careers in computer science, thus contributing to a much neededskilled workforce in this increasingly digital world. It may alsoprovide new insights into models of how to inspire our youth to considercareers in computer science, and possibly other sciences or engineering.The project results will be disseminated via the project Web site:(http://davis.wpi.edu/~dsrg/PROJECTS/REK-NSF/).