RET Site: WySTACK - Supporting Teachers And Computing Knowledge

作为怀俄明州唯一的四年制大学，怀俄明大学（UW）将与12个学区、西北社区学院的教师和几个行业合作伙伴合作，创建一个完全虚拟的RET站点。这种虚拟的方法反映了当今合作研究的现实，使研究人员和教育工作者有机会确定农村参与真正的计算机科学研究的局限性、需求和要求。大流行引发的基础设施改造，加上华盛顿大学在举办虚拟教师专业发展活动方面的成功，验证了华盛顿大学提供虚拟研究体验的可行性。该网站将招募36名高中STEM教师和两名社区大学教师，与四名CS教师一起虚拟参与研究，这些项目都在机器学习、网络安全、虚拟/增强现实或高性能计算领域保持着数据科学的共同主线。该项目建立在国家现有工作的基础上，在工业界、学术界和社区合作伙伴之间建立一个实践社区，并已经为数百名教育工作者提供了真实的探究经验，使他们能够在课堂上开发可用的课程产品。怀俄明大学与怀俄明12个学区、西北（社区）学院和商业/行业合作伙伴合作，将在3年内主办一个新的RET网站，聘请36名高中教师和两名社区大学教师。STEM教师参与者将参与为期六周的真实夏季虚拟研究体验，重点关注通过真实应用和先进计算研究的社会影响来解决农村问题，并进行学年后续会议。通过数据科学的共同线索，具体的项目研究领域包括1)人工智能和高性能计算，2)安全机器学习，3)虚拟和增强现实，以及4)攻击和创建安全且有弹性的农村基础设施。然后，教育工作者将通过与研究小组和社区学院参与者合作开发的课程材料和可重复使用的课程模块，将他们的研究经验和新获得的内容知识转化到课堂上。这些合作将有助于发展和支持一个更大的实践社区，WyCS，这是怀俄明州各种行业，学术和社区合作伙伴之间的联合（uwyo.edu/wycs）.This奖项反映了NSF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。

As the sole four-year institution in the state of Wyoming, the University of Wyoming (UW) will partner with twelve school districts, Northwest Community College faculty, and several industry partners to create a completely virtual RET site. This virtual approach mirrors the realities of present-day collaborative research and enables the researchers and educators an opportunity to identify limitations, needs, and requirements for rural-based engagement in authentic computer science research. Pandemic-induced infrastructure modifications coupled with UW’s success in hosting virtual teacher professional development activities validate the feasibility of UW offering a virtual research experience. The site will recruit 36 high school STEM teachers and two community college faculty members to virtually participate in research with four CS faculty working on a diverse set of projects which all maintain a common thread of data science–either within Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Virtual/Augmented Reality, or High Performance Computing. The project builds upon existing work by the state to develop a community of practice among industry, academic, and community partners and has already provided authentic-inquiry experiences to hundreds of educators allowing them to develop useable curricular products in their classrooms.The University of Wyoming in collaboration with twelve Wyoming school districts, Northwest (Community) College, and business/industry partners will host a new RET Site to engage 36 high school teachers and two community college faculty over a 3-year period. STEM teacher participants will engage in a six-week authentic summer virtual research experience focused on addressing rural issues through authentic applications and societal impacts of advanced computing research with academic year follow-up sessions. Through a common thread of data science, specific project research areas include 1) AI and high-performance computing, 2) Machine learning for security,3) Virtual and augmented reality, and 4) Attacking and creating secure and resilient rural infrastructure. The educators will then translate their research experiences and newly gained content knowledge into their classrooms through the creation and dissemination of course materials and reusable curricular modules developed in collaboration with the research team and community college participants. These engagements will contribute to the development and support of a larger community of practice, WyCS, that is coalescing in Wyoming between a variety of industry, academic, and community partners (uwyo.edu/wycs).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.