CC* Team: Great Plains Regional CyberTeam

作为需要复杂的网络基础设施的多学科和多机构合作的一部分，科学和技术领域的进步越来越多地实现。由大平原网络领导的一个区域网络团队将通过开发特定的网络基础设施资源、劳动力培训以及制定独特的、相互的和跨机构的支持方法和协议，支持和推动整个区域的计算和数据密集型研究。该项目通过在交叉培训和研究人员外展的最佳和新兴实践的基础上开发一个模型，将一个机构的有经验的导师与另一个机构的受训者配对，从而促进先进计算和数据资源的采用和经验。项目目标是：1)提高校园意识和采用先进的网络基础设施。2)在指导机构增加校园研究计算和数据专业人员的数量，特别是对于IT人员较少、工作职责较多的机构。3)提升校园网络基础设施资源能力。4)促进网络基础设施的开发、部署和运营，使科学变得高效、可信和可复制。网络团队是一个跨机构的团队，由该地区的技术领导者与劳动力的新成员、有兴趣加入网络基础设施劳动力的研究生和本科生以及地区研究型大学的机构研究计算领导层组成。它为分布式支持团队提供了一个模式，以支持网络基础设施，并帮助发展网络基础设施工程和促进劳动力。传播了CI导师区域团队的通用最佳实践，包括具体的导师计划、回顾和参考材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Advances in science and technology fields are increasingly accomplished as part of multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborations that require complex cyberinfrastructure. A regional CyberTeam led by the Great Plains Network will support and advance the computational and data-intensive research across the region through the development of specific cyberinfrastructure resources, workforce training, and the development of unique, mutual, and cross-institutional support methodologies and agreements. The project advances the adoption and experience of advanced computing and data resources by developing a model built upon best and emerging practices for cross training and researcher outreach, pairing an experienced mentor at one institution with a mentee at another.The project objectives are to: 1) Improve campus awareness and adoption of advanced cyberinfrastructure. 2) Increase the number of campus research computing and data professionals at mentored institutions, especially for institutions with small IT staffs with many job duties. 3) Increase the capabilities of campus cyberinfrastructure resources. 4) Enable development, deployment, and operation of cyberinfrastructure to make science efficient, trusted, and reproducible. The CyberTeam is a cross-institutional team consisting of technical leaders in the region paired with new members of the workforce, graduate and undergraduate students interested in joining the cyberinfrastructure workforce, and the institutional research computing leadership for regional research universities. It provides a model for distributed support teams to support cyberinfrastructure and aid in the development of a cyberinfrastructure engineering and facilitation workforce. Generalized best practices for a regional team of CI mentors including specific mentorship plans, retrospectives, and reference materials are disseminated.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.