1. VGrADS Education Outreach Training Activities: Unlocking the Doors of Opportunity
Theresa Chatman, (presenter), Michael Sirois Richard Tapia
This work was facilitated by the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE)

2. Goals
To pursue projects that address graduate, undergraduate and pre-college education, with special attention to the needs of underrepresented groups, and a focus on supporting Minority Students in Majority Institutions (MSMI), thereby directly attacking the problem of attrition in the science and engineering workforce.

3. Minority Students in Majority Institutions (MSMIs)
Minority-focused conference participation
2004 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, October 6-9, 2004, Chicago, IL
Panel, BoF
2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, October 19-22, 2005, Albuquerque, NM
Plenary Session, Group, Panel
Keith Cooper, VGrADS PI, will be a speaker at the 2005 Tapia Conference. Chuck Koelbel will lead a VGrADS panel discussion and VGrADS Pis, XYZ, will also be panelists on the panel. They will discuss both the enormous opportunities for Grid computing, and the significant challenges in getting it working. They plan to talk about how the Grid is solving problems today that were impossible just a few years ago. They will also point out the need for contributions from a diverse group of researchers, such as the participants at the Tapia conference.
I’d also like to point out that both of these conferences are well attended. Grace Hopper has over 800 (?) attendees. This will be the third year for the Tapia Conference, and the conference double from 150 in 2001 to 300 attendees in 2003.
Most of our successes have come from majority institutions. Today, there are more minority students at majority institutions than at the minority institutions. Ten years ago, that was not the case. Minority students used to go to institutions where they were comfortable like Prairie View, TSU, etc. Part of the reason for this change in Texas is because of the 10% rule were the top 10% of talented minority students are guaranteed admissions into Texas’ public universities like Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin. At those schools, their population is over %50 minority.

4. Computer Science Computing and Mentoring Partnership (CS-CAMP) Project
Mentoring and support program to enhance the interest and persistence of female students in pre-college computer science.
2004 CS-CAMP Summer Conference, CO-PI, Keith Cooper
Awareness Day Participation
“Computer Science—What is it?”
“Overcoming Obstacles”
Congressman Culberson Panel
2005 CS-CAMP Summer Conference
Grid Computing Session
Overview of Grid Computing Presentation
Career Choices in Grid Computing
The goals of CS-CAMP are to:
Prepare high school girls so they will succeed with confidence and enthusiasm in computer science courses;
Increase girls' admission and retention in pre-college computer science courses, and• Improve the climate and instructional experiences for girls in high school computer classes.
CS-CAMP is leveraged by funds from the VGrADS Project, as well as funds from Richard Tapia’s Center for Excellence and Equity in Education. Michael Sirois is the Program Manager for this project.

5. VGrADS Courses Information Technology Architectures Course
Developed by Ken Kennedy, Rice
Sophomore-level course
Grid architectures and programming course
Developed by VGrADS PIs
Course for undergraduate and graduate students
Graduate courses
Developed by Rich Wolski (UCSB) and Andrew Chien (UCSD)
Courses for graduate students
FYI, Rich has incorporated VGrADS technology within his course.

6. VGrADS Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Recruitment Efforts
Over 100 potential candidates
Potential projects include: evaluating scheduling methods and launching Grid applications
AGEP Summer Program
Community building
Pyramid model of mentoring
We have leveraged VGrADS and AGEP to create a warm nurturing community at Rice.
Note that you will meet one of our AGEP Students, Machale Joyner, at lunch. He was a Rice undergraduate, and is a third-year Rice graduate student. Ken Kennedy is his advisor.

7. Professional Outreach
“The usual” presentations at conferences, workshops, etc.
Berman, Casanova, Chien, Dongarra, Kennedy often give keynotes or invited talks on Grid computing
Website (put in black)
SC2004 Conference activities
Exhibit floor talks/demos of VGrADS and GrADS activities (Johnsson, Dongarra, Kennedy, Koelbel, Wolski, various students)
BOF and Panel speakers
“How do we develop, debug, and tune applications on Grids?” (Koelbel)
“President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee” (Reed)
“Getting Up To Speed: The Future of Supercomputing” (Koelbel, Dongarra)
National Committees
CSTB “The Future of Supercomputing” (Koelbel, Dongarra)
PITAC subcommittee on Computational Science (Reed chairs)
Many national and international conference program committees
Refer them to Chuck for questions regarding SC Conferences