NSF Corner
You'll find announcements for NSF events and resouces here. Please contact Andi Niess to post full text items to this page.
Registered users of the BPC portal are always welcome to submit short Event
and News items. Please visit the Projects page for links and short description flyers for all BPC Projects.
CSTA Voice Newsletter
Read the Voice of K–12 Computer Science Education and its Educators in the January 2010 issue of the CSTA Voice newsletter (PDF).
A Year of Ideas
NCWIT produced this wonderful 2009/2010
calendar with a year of BPC ideas (PDF).
NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Community Meeting
The 2010 NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) community meeting will be held in Los Angeles, California at the Marriott Marina Del Rey on February 1-2,
with an evening reception on Sunday, January 31. The meeting will serve as a community forum and will include discussions of current BPC projects, new organizations,
and an introduction to the new BPC Solicitation. Breakout sessions will focus on BPC plans and proposals along with opportunities to network and form new collaborations.
The meeting will be sponsored by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA with a theme that centers around "Getting Hands on Science Projects to Kids."
Please visit the website for more information or to learn about the
required materials.
NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and People with Disabilities
The NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and People with Disabilities at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
and Senior Doctoral Student will be held in Houston, Texas at the Hotel ZaZa March 5-7, 2010.
The goal of the workshop is to provide unique, tailored experiences for underrepresented ethnic minorities and people with disabilities at the
assistant- and associate-level faculty and senior doctoral students about the academic career ladder. It is well known that mentoring activities are
critical for successful promotions in the professoriate. Such activities are especially needed in the field of computing, where the number in the
targeted groups at a given institution is usually very small. The workshop will include panels of diverse senior faculty talking about the tenure
and promotion process, launching a research program, professionalism, and a detailed session on proposal writing. The workshop organizers include
Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M University), Bryant York (Portland State University), Illya Hicks (Rice University), Domingo Rodriguez (University of
Puerto Rico in Mayaguez), and Richard Ladner (University of Washington).
The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Computing Research Association (CRA),
and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), and the Center on Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) are organizing the third annual Academic
Workshop for Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and People with Disabilities with funding from the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing program.
The BPC Demonstration grant provides funding for participant travel, lodging, and meeting logistics.
Candidates are invited to complete an on-line application by Friday, 15 January 2010.
Participants will be notified by Monday, 25 January 2010. Funding will be provided for all participants.
Questions about the program can be sent to Valerie Taylor.
NSF BP Funding Opportunities:
- Listing of some of the NSF K-12 funding opportunities (PDF).
- NSF has created a Broadening Participation Portfolio website for possible BP funding opportunities.
BPC Proposal Writing:
- Tips and tricks on how to write a BPC Proposal (PDF)
- Browse abstracts of existing BPC projects