Blog
Please find blogs contributed by the computing community below. The purpose of these blogs is to showcase best practices and solutions for building a robust and inclusive computing workforce.
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Preparing for Internship Application Season
It is internship application season and many programs’ application deadlines are in early January, as you can see from the examples below. Deadline Program Link January 9 DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) Link January 9 DOE Community College Internships (CCI) Link January 15 DOE Omni Technology Alliance Internship Link... -
Project-Based Learning
Exascale Computing Project Introduction to HPC Boot Camp I am serving as a mentor in the first Exascale Computing Project (ECP) HPC Bootcamp. The idea behind this boot camp is to teach advanced computing techniques through projects rather than exercises. This approach makes sense when I recall that, of all... -
A New Meeting Agenda Item - The Inclusive Minute
What is an Inclusive Minute Briefly (more details later), inclusive practices are about making that extra effort to ensure everyone who wants to participate, can. Large, commercial organizations whose business depends on reach and growth (e.g. Google, Microsoft, IBM and NVIDIA) are fully committed to inclusive practices. An inclusive minute... -
What Can Mentoring Look Like?
“Mentoring” likely rings in people’s ears as a formalized relationship, such as an apprenticeship. It may also connote charity work: the mentor as a philanthropic hero to their indebted mentee. Reed Milewicz, with Sandia National Laboratories, addressed these convention views in a recent webinar hosted by the Exascale Computing Project... -
Two Truths and a Lie
Keisha is at the podium in a packed room at the Exascale Computing Project annual meeting. She is brave, opening our CULTIVATE Conversations session by sharing her career and life experiences. She is the Program Director for Sustainable Horizons Institute (SHI), which works to catalyze the normalization of inclusion of...