CC* CIRA: Building Research Innovation at Community Colleges

两年制大学和规模较小的高等教育机构在塑造美国的经济和计算机人才方面发挥着重要作用。对云计算和智能制造等领域日益增长的兴趣，为这些机构在研究和学术追求中采用先进的网络基础设施实践铺平了道路。社区学院建设研究创新（金砖国家）方法扩展了参与校园计算各个方面的团体的集体经验，研究了这些机构环境中先进网络基础设施的研究和教育需求。在网络团队的领导下，金砖国家提供了一个包容性的平台，在这一领域开展工作，并将其扩展到国家层面。金砖国家是一个独特的机会，在小型机构和社区学院研究校园计算的特点。金砖国家采取了多管齐下的方法，重点是了解手头的问题，与机构合作以实现解决方案，并最终将其发现传达给更广泛的研究界。促进知识渊博的网络基础设施专业人员与这些机构之间的伙伴关系是金砖国家的一个重要方面。为实现这一目标，金砖国家将举办虚拟和面对面的社区研讨会，探索扩大先进网络基础设施对各级校园计算的影响的途径。金砖国家将提供学习资源、研讨会报告、支持未来的资助工作，并提出与小型机构的研究和学术追求相一致的校园网络模式。作为计算机专业知识的集大成者，金砖国家可以作为一个合作空间，应对在研究和教育领域推进网络基础设施采用方面的类似挑战。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。

Two-year colleges and smaller institutions of higher education play an important role in shaping the country's economic and computing workforce. Burgeoning interest in fields such as cloud computing and smart manufacturing have paved the path for adoption of advanced cyberinfrastructure practices in research and academic pursuits at these institutions. Expanding on the collective experience of groups engaged in various aspects of campus computing, the Building Research Innovation at Community Colleges (BRICCs) approach examines the research and educational needs from advanced cyberinfrastructure in such institutional settings. Led by CyberTeams, BRICCs offers an inclusive platform to develop and extend efforts in this space to the national level. BRICCs is a unique opportunity to study campus computing characteristics at smaller institutions and community colleges. BRICCs adopts a multi-pronged approach that focuses on learning about the problems at hand, partnering with institutions to enable solutions, and finally communicating its findings to the broader research community. Fostering partnerships between knowledgeable cyberinfrastructure professionals and these institutions is a critical aspect of BRICCs. Toward achieving this, BRICCs will host virtual and in-person community workshops to explore avenues to broaden the impact of advanced cyberinfrastructure on campus computing at all levels. BRICCs will produce learning resources, workshop reports, support future funding efforts, and propose campus networking models that align with the research and academic pursuits of smaller institutions. As a collective of computing expertise, BRICCs serve as a collaborative space to address similar challenges in advancing cyberinfrastructure adoption in research and educational settings.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.