Program

MEALS

8:30am–9:30am

Breakfast
9:30am–10:00am

Opening remarks

Josh Sunshine, Organizing Committee
10:00am–10:45am

Parallel breakout sessions:

Session 1: Student Recruiting and Selection

Session 2: Building a Positive Environment: cohort-building, social activities, and research lab culture

Session 3: Preparing Students for Research: high-impact first week activities, research orientation, seminar topics

Session 4: Keeping Things Fresh: evolving intellectual focus, changing leadership, and introducing new structure

Session 5: Disseminating Student Research: poster sessions, student research competitions, REU-specific conferences, co-authoring papers with graduate students

Session 6: Program Support and Sustainability: advocating for resources, fundraising from non-NSF sources, public relations, working with university administration
10:45am–11:15am

Report back from breakout sessions
11:15am–11:45am

Break
11:45am–12:30pm

PI Site Introductions

20 seconds per site
12:30pm–1:30pm

Lunch
1:30pm–2:15pm

Panel 1: Broadening Participation in Computing
2:15pm–3:00pm

Panel 2: Writing a Highly Competitive Renewal Proposal
3:00pm–3:30pm

Break
3:30pm–4:15pm

Parallel breakout sessions

same sessions as 10am, everyone chooses a second topic from the six offered
4:15pm–5:00pm

Panel 3: Working with Mentors: mentor training, mentor management, mentor evaluation
6:30pm–8:30pm

Networking & Best Practices Discussion Dinner

MEALS PLENARY SESSIONS BREAKOUT SESSIONS BREAKS

8:30am–9:30am

Breakfast
9:30am–10:30am

Panel 4: Evaluation, Reporting, Tracking, and Dissemination of Longitudinal REU Outcomes
10:30am–11:00am

Break
11:00am–11:45am

Parallel breakout sessions

same sessions as Day 2, everyone chooses a third topic from the six offered
11:45am–12:30pm

Program Officer panel
12:30pm–1:45pm

Lunch
1:45pm–2:30pm

Invited Speaker
2:30pm–2:45pm

Closing remarks

MEALS PLENARY SESSIONS BREAKS BREAKOUT SESSIONS