NSF Showcase for DUE Projects at the ACM SIGCSE Symposium

计算机协会计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组（ACM SIGCSE）研讨会是计算机科学教育者最大的年度聚会，近年来有超过1500名与会者。虽然SIGCSE研讨会是教育工作者在项目完成后传播其研究成果的绝佳场所，但目前正在从事项目的教师通常需要寻找合作者来进一步研究。还有一些教师有一个研究想法，但不确定从哪里开始，或者如何最好地申请国家科学基金会的资助。在SIGCSE研讨会上的NSF展示将为当前的NSF资助接受者提供一个展示他们正在进行的工作、接收反馈和招募合作者的场所。NSF展示将帮助NSF项目官员提供信息和指导，帮助新的研究人员确定适当的资助机会。在过去的十年中，数百名教师参加了NSF的展示，接触了数千名计算机科学教育工作者。预计这一经验将帮助他们推进项目并传播其成果。NSF展示的核心目的是为来自美国国家科学基金会本科教育部门的资助接受者提供一个机会，在其他时间以不同的方式展示他们的项目，而不是在最终结果准备好时。NSF展示是NSF和SIGCSE之间的合作成果。NSF通过提供潜在的演讲者列表来推动该项目，而SIGCSE则确保NSF展示在SIGCSE研讨会上占据突出位置。NSF展示的目的是让赠款接受者将他们的想法作为互动的展示和演示来传播。展示中的每个项目都将提供一个90分钟的演示准备迷你展位。通过非正式的互动，主要研究人员将能够从同行和项目官员那里征求反馈，以及招募合作者和采用者。NSF展示会还将在整个研讨会期间为项目官员的“办公时间”留出空间。办公时间旨在为潜在的资助人和当前的项目负责人提供机会，在项目周期的早期与项目官员进行磋商，并获得关键的见解，从而提高项目成功的可能性，并使研究结果得到传播。NSF展示已经成为计算机科学教育界多年来的主要内容，它一直在SIGCSE研讨会上运行。NSF展示会的参与者经常报告说，展示会对他们的工作产生了重大影响，并帮助他们推进了研究。展示的与会者亲眼看到目前由NSF DUE支持的工作。The Showcase努力通过这些机会继续为计算机科学教育界和SIGCSE研讨会提供有价值的服务。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 Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE) Symposium is the largest annual gathering of computer science educators, with over 1500 attendees in recent years. Although the SIGCSE Symposium is an excellent venue for educators to disseminate their findings after a project has been completed, faculty who are currently working on projects often need to find collaborators to further their research. Still other faculty have a research idea but are unsure where to start or how to best apply for funding from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Showcase at the SIGCSE Symposium will provide a venue for current NSF grant recipients to present their work in progress, receive feedback, and recruit collaborators. The NSF Showcase will help NSF program officers provide information and guidance to help new researchers identify appropriate funding opportunities. Over the past decade, hundreds of faculty members have presented at NSF Showcases, reaching thousands of computer science educators. It is expected that this experience has helped them move their projects forward and disseminate their results.The core purpose of the NSF Showcase is to provide an opportunity for grant recipients from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education to present their projects at other times and in different ways than when final results are ready. The NSF Showcase is a cooperative effort between NSF and SIGCSE. NSF drives the project by providing a list of potential presenters, while SIGCSE ensures that the NSF Showcase has a prominent position at the SIGCSE Symposium. The NSF Showcase is designed to allow grant recipients to circulate their ideas as interactive presentations and demonstrations. Each project included in the showcase will be offered a presentation-ready mini-booth to use for a 90-minute session. Through informal interactions, principal investigators will be able to solicit feedback from peers and program officers as well as recruit collaborators and adopters. The NSF Showcase will also set space aside for program officer "office hours" throughout the symposium. The office hours are intended to provide occasions for potential grant writers and current PIs to consult with program officers early in the project cycle, and gain crucial insights that can improve the likelihood of the projects succeeding and findings being disseminated. The NSF Showcase has become a staple in the computer science education community over the years that it has been running at the SIGCSE Symposium. Participants in the NSF Showcase routinely report that the Showcase had a significant impact on their work and helped them move their research forward. Attendees of the Showcase see firsthand the work currently supported by NSF DUE. The Showcase strives to continue to provide a valuable service to the computer science education community and the SIGCSE Symposium through these opportunities.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.