NSF CI-TEAM Workshop July 9-11, 2007 in Washington, DC
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Panel Session Topics #3. What are the challenges, strategies, and outcomes for successfully engaging and retaining new communities?  How do you keep the community moving forward, maintaining momentum, sustaining community cohesion, and expanding its boundaries?

1. How to successfully engaging and retaining new communities:

Strategies:
Partnerships with minority professional organizations and minority serving institutions

Challenges:
*Identifying capabilities compatible with the goals of your CI-TEAM project.
*Identifying key personnel within the MSI or the appropriate minority professional organization.

Outcomes :
*Prepare current and future generations of scientists, engineers, and educators to use, support, deploy, develop, and design cyberinfrastructure; and
*Foster inclusion of diverse groups of people and organizations in science and engineering that participate in cyberinfrastructure activities.

2. How do you keep the community moving forward, maintaining momentum, sustaining community cohesion, and expanding its boundaries?

Minority Professional Organizations have long been committed to mentoring and nurturing the professional development of their membership and underrepresented students. Consider Partnership with these Minority Professional Organizations to build on their expertise.

• National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (NABGG) http://www.nabgg.com/
• National Technical Association, Inc. (NTA) http://www.ntaonline.org
• The Association of Computer and Information Science/Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) http://www.admi.us
• National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) http://www.nsbp.org
• National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) http://www.nam-math.org/
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) http://www.nsbp.org
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) http://www.nobcche.org
• American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) http://www.aabe.org/
• National Hispanic Professional Organizations http://www.lared-latina.com/pros.html
• Native American professional associations http://www.umich.edu/~meldi/4a_native-am.html

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Dr. Linda Hayden, PI CI-TEAM Implementation Project- Cyberinfrastructure for Remote

Sensing of Ice Sheets NSF OCI-0636361 <HAYDENL@MINDSPRING.COM>