Developing America's Technological Workforce
"This project focuses on enhancing the technological workforce in America through funding from NSF, CMS, and ATLAS. The program has seen stable funding for the next few years, with a strong outlook despite challenges faced over the past two years. Emphasis is placed on staff support, teacher training, and IT infrastructure development."
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Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce QuarkNet Funding NSF is providing $600k/year. Salary support for several staff at full or partial time (Cecire, Griffith, McCauley, Wood, Zakas) Project evaluation Travel for staff & Ad Board Computing (primarily to maintain the QuarkNet servers) A small amount of participant support for centers CMS is providing $150k/year. Support for 375 teachers at centers ATLAS is providing $100k/year. Support for 25 teachers at centers Support for 25 teachers, travel for Data Camp Support for fellows Fermilab Support for several staff at partial time (Adams, Hoppert, Pasero, Peronja) Travel for staff Infrastructure for cosmic ray studies Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce Spending through Year 2 Totals without Fermilab Budget Salary & benefits for staff at ND $490k spent vs. $500k budgeted Additional salary support, computer services, supplies, etc. $415k spent vs. $410k budgeted Travel $33k spent vs. $56k budgeted Center Support, Fellows $220k spent vs. $520k budgeted Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce Outlook for Years 3 5 Years 3 5 funding situation looks stable. NSF forwarded funded the program & Year 3 funding is in place. $2M of the total $3M is at ND; no reason to expect any issues with the remainder. ATLAS also forward funded the program. $242k of total $500k up front, $100k on the way, $158k committed in new budget Developing new five-year operations budget; putting $100k per year in for QuarkNet in anticipation of a renewal in three years CMS $300k of the total $750k is at ND; Year 3 funds in early 2021; commitment for final two years Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce Summary & Comments Two interesting & challenging years in the books Spending on people has tracked the budget. We have been able to support our team full-time, even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff and fellows have been active and creative, adjusting to the situation; more on this later in the meeting Spending on centers is well under budget. We were cautious in Year 1 adapting to our new budget. COVID-19 in Year 2 We are well-positioned to provide an active, robust program for the next three years. Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce IT Infrastructure New Servers IT services transitioning to new physical servers: Purchased through ND Physics Transfer ongoing: physics data, wiki done Housed at ND Center for Research Computing Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
Helping Develop Americas Technological Workforce IT Infrastructure quarknet.org Primary QuarkNet website (currently Drupal 7): User data stored in spreadsheet uploaded to site database Some cleaning tasks remain. Upgrade to Drupal 9 planned for near future Wayne, 2020 Ad Board Meeting
