SGER : Research Experience for K12 (REK)

IIS-0633930 Elke A.Rundensteiner rundenst@cs.wpi.eduWorcester理工学院SGER：K12(REK)的研究经验这个项目旨在激励年轻人考虑在计算机科学方面拥有更高的学位和熟练的职业。采取的外展方式是独一无二的。首先，学生的目标是在早期阶段，即K12。其次，这些K12学生有机会第一手参与一个积极的研究项目--与伍斯特理工学院计算机系的科学家(REU学生、研究生和教职员工)并肩工作。参与者的两层参与包括第一阶段：整个学年的较小项目，以及第二阶段：随后的暑期深入项目。这一项目是在正在进行的NSF项目下进行的，即水流监测技术及其应用方面的研究项目。流监控是一种处理数据流上的查询的新范例(而不仅仅是在静态数据库中)，支持传感器流监控、火灾蔓延预测和网络入侵检测等应用。根据标准的事前和事后调查对这一外联项目的效果进行了评估。作为更广泛的影响，参与者从伍斯特市(高度多样化的)公立学校系统招募。这个探索性的项目是为了激励K12的参与者考虑未来在计算机科学领域的职业生涯，从而在这个日益数字化的世界中培养出一支非常需要的熟练劳动力。它还可能为如何激励我们的年轻人考虑计算机科学、可能还有其他科学或工程领域的职业提供新的见解。项目结果将通过Web site：(http://davis.wpi.edu/~dsrg/PROJECTS/REK-NSF/).项目传播

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/).