From mark at galassi.org Sat Feb 10 05:28:38 2024 From: mark at galassi.org (Mark Galassi) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:28:38 -0000 Subject: [TOS] Institute for Computing in Research, summer 2024 applications open Message-ID: <878r3sga6c.fsf@galassi.org> Dear fellow fans of Teaching Open Source, I am an astrophysicist and computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and have been part of the free/open-source software movement since its beginning in the mid 1980s. Among other things I designed and led the development of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL), widely used in scientific computing. In the last decade some colleagues and I have created an educational pipeline aimed at training youth to do research in science, social science, humanities, and the arts. They are paired with an active publishing scholar adjacent to their area of interest, and are paid to work full time. Our approach to computing is deeply rooted in software freedom, and the single-minded focus on research is modeled on the Los Alamos student internship program. The overall pipeline is described here: https://computinginresearch.org/our-pipeline-leading-students-to-research/ The final step is to pay students to do research! Every summer we hire about 33 students who are finishing 10th, 11th, or 12th grade, and we pay them a full-time stipend for about half the summer. The purpose of this email is to ask if any of y'all work with middle or high school kids (or if you know motivated students), can you get the word out to them that this is a cool opportunity for the summer. I'm appending here the invitational email I sent out, and I'm attaching a flyer for the program. Dear Faculty, Briefly - please encourage your motivated students to apply for a summer research internship at: https://computinginresearch.org/summer-research-internship-program-2024/ (I am also attaching a flyer) Slightly longer story: The Institute for Computing in Research pays high school students (finishing 10th, 11th, 12th grade) to do research in the summer. We pair them with an active researcher in their field of interest, and purchase equipment that they then keep. We have opened up applications for summer 2024, and we hope you can urge your motivated students to apply. We seek students with diverse interests: humanities, social science, science, the arts, ..., and we have mentors who work in all those areas. We hope you can pass the link and flyer for the summer 2022 internship to your students and look forward to receiving their applications! Full information is at: https://computinginresearch.org/ and a description of our overall research pipeline is at: https://computinginresearch.org/our-pipeline-leading-students-to-research/ A final note: we also offer the Research Skills Academy, focused on the non-computational and non-quantitative aspects of research. We would love to have your students join us there: https://computinginresearch.org/research-skills-academy/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: computinginresearch-flyer-2024.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1426924 bytes Desc: not available URL: