EPIC: Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure

A collaboration led by Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and supported by the NSF

The goal of EPIC is to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastruture(CI) and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders. Strategies designed to meet this goal include:

1. Providing an integrated spectrum of computational science education and training in the use of tools
and resources, for science and math education at all levels.
2. Enabling access to advanced technologies and tools in education and outreach.
3. Ensuring diversity by both supporting specific access and inclusion projects and infusing every aspect of EPIC with diversity, access, and inclusion.
4. Establishing a large energized community of educators, students, researchers, and citizens engaged in developing and using cyberinfrastructure.

An extensive cohort of partners participates in activities that support these strategies, including workshops and meetings; “train the trainers” activities; professional development, mentoring, and youth programs; diversity and accessibility programs; development of learning materials, software, and simulation tools, and online dissemination of materials, tools, resources, guides, reports and best practices.

Page last updated 8/10/2006. Please send comments to Cheryl Endicott

3 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 - tel: 617-353-6078 - fax: 617-358-2487