Lf-2010-proposal-ideas

The Programs:

Notes from 2/26 call

Consider including the BCCD work within a LittleFe/BCCD proposal
Look at what BPC has funded recently for ideas, constraints
Diffusion level of CI-TEAM?
Is Edu-Grid fundable from either of these? first-touch to TG provider? Optimized for education.
Post award period sustainability is an important component of the proposal

General ideas:

Polish the build instructions including the step-by-step video
- faculty time
- student time
Build and support N units to be distributed to schools clustered around the co-PIs
- hardware
- faculty time
- student time
Develop outreach materials for computer science based on LittleFe, do outreach at schools clustered around the co-PIs
- hardware (touchscreen)
- faculty time
- student time
Develop short workshops on assembling and using LittleFe, incorporate them into longer parallel and distributed workshops and as stand-alone offerings
- faculty time
- student time
Dissemination
Evaluation

Questions, etc:

What's the correct shape/size package of the above for each of the two programs?
Can the post-bacc at Earlham help with any of this?
Are there synergies with anything Shodor or TeraGrid or OSCER or JEF or ? are doing?
High school students don't typically see CS, that is take classes, like they see the other sciences; must do outreach from the College level down to K10-12 to expose them to the possibilities.
Start computer clubs based around LittleFe?
Reference Bring IT On work and ECOI

Criteria and attributes for BPC:

National impact; either make something that scales or scale something that exists
Middle school through early faculty
All BPC projects have significant assessment and evaluation efforts with both formative and summative components