Cultivating a scientifically engaged citizenry: Education and outreach
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NCAR's exhibit at SC06 combined a variety of outreach efforts: Presentations about the latest scientific results and computing resource enhancements at NCAR, opportunities to network with CISL and NCAR staff, highlights of NCAR's TeraGrid integration work, interactive displays, informative posters, and tables available to attendees for conversations and working on their laptops. This multi-purpose design reaches a broad cross-section of attendees, helping them appreciate NCAR's contributions to the atmospheric and related sciences. |
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CISL supports numerous programs that foster improved awareness and understanding of geosciences and research methods for a variety of research and educational communities. These activities are supported through internships, seminars and workshops, visually compelling 3D presentations in CISL's Visualization Lab, conference exhibits, partnership with the NCAR Public Visitor Program, a training and outreach program for the NCAR Command Language (NCL) and other visualization tools, and security training for system administrators.
Accomplishments and plans in CISL's education and outreach efforts are discussed in these sections:
- Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) program
- IMAGe Theme of the Year education and outreach
- Computing in Atmospheric Sciences workshop (CAS2K7)
- Vislab outreach program
- Training in geoscientific tools
- Conference outreach
- Security training for UCAR system administrators
- Sustained mentoring support for the SOARS internship program
CISL's work across all of these areas broadly supports NCAR's strategic goal to "Cultivate a scientifically literate and engaged citizenry and a diverse and creative workforce." This work is supported by NSF Core funding.