CC* Team: SWEETER -- SouthWest Expertise in Expanding, Training, Education and Research

一个跨学科研究团队的效力常常受到研究人员召集一群具有所需科学专长的合作者的能力的限制。更甜：西南专业知识拓展培训，教育和研究是一个资源网络，包括培训和人员，协作和促进跨学科和机构边界的合作。sweet联合了非营利组织、社区学院、少数民族服务机构、研究密集型大学和来自多个州的行业来发展这个研究网络。该合作利用了计算科学多个方面的专业知识，通过采用资源共享模型（每个机构既是资源的提供者又是资源的接受者）来解决资源共享中遇到的长期问题。来自不同网站的研究专家将在网站研讨会、更甜蜜的年度活动和在线渠道上支持领域科学家。为了鼓励这些关系，更甜提供了一个门户网站和共享的网络基础设施，这将有助于消除社区学院和小型机构面临的资源障碍。更甜通过提供远程和面对面的培训机会，并将其学习环境的要素推广到正式的课程努力，加强了研究人员的准备工作。更重要的是，更甜采用创新的评估策略来评估其在研究、培训和教育方面的成功。通过现有的努力，通过培养多样化的合作伙伴关系，sweet将显著扩大传统上代表性不足的人群在K-12、本科和研究生阶段的计算机学习中的参与度。总而言之，sweet提供了一个灵活、便携和可扩展的框架来发展实践社区，这将为未来研究网络的设计提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The efficacy of an interdisciplinary research team is frequently limited by a researcher's ability to draw together a cohort of collaborators with needed scientific expertise. SWEETER: South West Expertise in Expanding Training, Education and Research is a network of resources, both training and personnel, that collaborate and foster cooperation across the boundaries of disciplines and institutions. SWEETER unites not-for-profits, community colleges, minority serving institutions, research-intensive universities, and industry from multiple states to develop this research network. The collaboration leverages expertise in several facets of computational sciences to address long-standing issues encountered in sharing resources by employing a model of resource sharing where each institution is a provider and receiver of resources.Research specialists from various sites will support domain scientists at site workshops, SWEETER annual events, and online avenues. To encourage these relationships, SWEETER offers a web-portal and shared cyberinfrastructure that will help remove resource barriers faced by community colleges and smaller institutions. SWEETER strengthens efforts for researcher preparation by offering remote and in-person training opportunities, and propagating elements of its learning environment to formal curricular efforts. Importantly, SWEETER employs an innovative evaluation strategy to assess its successes in the aspects of research, training and education. By fostering diverse partnerships developed through existing efforts, SWEETER will significantly broaden the involvement of traditionally underrepresented populations in computing at the K-12, undergraduate and graduate levels of learning. In all, SWEETER offers a flexible, portable and scalable framework to develop communities of practice that will inform the design of future research networks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.