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Alejandro Suarez: Alright, I think we are ready to go here. So thank you. Everyone for joining us at the National AI Research Resource pilot classroom partner showcase so my name is Alejandro Suarez.

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Alejandro Suarez: I'm here with my colleague Jenny Lee from the office of Advanced cyber infrastructure, and our colleague, Ellen Zagura, Division Director of the Division of Computer Network Systems, also within National Science Foundation. And we're going to talk to you a little bit about the near pilot the active opportunities that are available for researchers. And

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Alejandro Suarez: of course, as the title leads you to the classroom and education opportunities that are available at Nsf and connected to the nair pilot from which you will hear to lightning talks from some education partners specific to the neare pilot.

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Alejandro Suarez: So as a reminder, this webinar will be recorded, and a recording of this webinar will be available via the link to which you signed up to the webinar.

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Alejandro Suarez: So, as I noted our agenda, we'll start with an overview of the near pilot. We'll talk a little bit about what what it actually consists of the active opportunities that you can apply to today and the resources that are available in the research setting and then in the education setting which will lead to my colleague Ellen, talking about the education opportunities that are available in Nsf.

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Alejandro Suarez: Before we will hand it over to our colleagues at the prototype National Research Platform and vocarium, who will talk a little bit about their partner contributed resources that are available via the near pilot for applications. We'll finish off with our QA. Via zoom. So at any time you are welcome to submit a question using the QA feature in zoom. We'll try to get to as many of them as we can as time permits. At the end of our presentations.

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Alejandro Suarez: So what is the national AI research resource?

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Alejandro Suarez: Well, the vision for the ner? Nair r, is to have a widely accessible national research infrastructure that can advance AI R&D and innovation by empowering a diverse set of users. And this is done by providing access to high performance computing resources, access to high quality data sets catalogs of test beds, education, materials and training opportunities.

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Alejandro Suarez: and those are all to further the goals of spurring innovation and increasing the diversity of talent within the AI space

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Alejandro Suarez: to ensure that the capacity for AI R&D remains competitive on the world stage, and to advance the trustworthiness and robustness of AI models. You can all often call this re the responsible AI models as well.

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Alejandro Suarez: So this is what the full mayor would be looking to accomplish.

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Alejandro Suarez: and the vision for the the full ner was discussed in a White House, mandated Taskforce. Report that you can see in purple on the left here this task force report was released in January of last year, and it had a bold vision for a large scale. Multi 1 billion dollar AI research resource activity for the for the nation.

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Alejandro Suarez: Right now what we are working on is a pilot of that narr infrastructure. So in the White House executive order that was released at the end of October, Nsf. With partner agencies that I'll go into in a little bit. We're mandated to launch a pilot of the Nair which have specific goals to demonstrate the value and impact of this narr concept

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Alejandro Suarez: to support the transformative AI research that we can among broad communities within existing resources and to gain experience that can help advance, and

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Alejandro Suarez: guide of and refine the full narrow design. So we should note that the availability of resources that we have right now are those that are contributed in kind from our partners or existing resources that we have available. We do not yet have a fully appropriated ner at this time. So we're seeing what we can do with the pilot.

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Alejandro Suarez: So even though we're at a pilot, stage, researchers and educators can access opportunities today to be able to attain resources, to advance their education and research goals. So near pilot.org is the primary portal to interface with the near pilot and see what opportunities are available. You can see a

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Alejandro Suarez: list of opportunities for researchers as well as classroom and educators. And then there's some other resources that discuss data sets and some external training opportunities and other activities that will be added as the pilot progresses

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Alejandro Suarez: so in terms of who is eligible for the ner pilot AI researchers.

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Alejandro Suarez: domain scientists that are applying AI within their research researchers at the research, and students and educators are all eligible to apply for and use the near pilot.

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Alejandro Suarez: There is a quite a broad eligibility criteria in terms of affiliation with institutions in terms of who can use pilot resources. The main restriction is that you must be from a Us. Based institution but you can be from an academic institution, a nonprofit Federal agency, or federally funded our R. And D center a State local or tribal agency

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Alejandro Suarez: or startup, or a small business that has some sort of federal funding, such as an sbir funding.

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Alejandro Suarez: So all of these resources are available to a wide variety of of researchers.

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Alejandro Suarez: And this is something that we. We launched the 1st availability of resources in January of this year, and we have already announced some of the types of projects that have been supported by near pilot resources, as of May 6, th

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Alejandro Suarez: this follows everything from fundamental computer science projects to molecular biology and other disciplinary work in agriculture, ecology, hydrology. So there's a very wide range of activities that are possible

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Alejandro Suarez: via access to the near pilot resources.

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Alejandro Suarez: So I noted that there is a large amount of partners associated with the the near pilot. We have a dozen agency partners and over 25 non-governmental partner organizations that are making available different types of resources that researchers and educators can apply to get their research activities or education activities accomplished.

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Alejandro Suarez: So I'm gonna go through some examples of the research resources that are available. And then I'm going to hand it over to Ellen, who's gonna talk a little bit about the education focused opportunities at Nsf. Before we go into the education focused resources that the near pilot provides.

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Alejandro Suarez: So in terms of the access to resources that researchers may find useful within the near pilot. There's a variety of

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Alejandro Suarez: super computing or high performance computing resources that you can apply for access to as part of the the near pilot, and this can advance research or education focused activities so this smattering of different systems has a variety of different types of architectures and service models. Everything from a more traditional batch processing. Based high performance computing environment towards a more cloud

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Alejandro Suarez: cloud based environment towards more AI specific chips and architectures and usage modalities, or high memory type systems. All of these types of resources you can apply for and have a justification for why you need that type of resource

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Alejandro Suarez: terms of private sector contributions for the researcher space. There's a wide variety of different types of non-government partners that are providing in kind resource contributions, and we had a webinar on the research related resources on May 21.st

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Alejandro Suarez: You are welcome to look up the recording of that webinar on the link provided here on the QR code that's available on screen. But this wide variety of resources are still available today through an application mechanism that you can find on their pilot org.

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Alejandro Suarez: and when it comes to the resource requests

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Alejandro Suarez: some of you may be familiar with the Nsf. Proposal process for Nsf funding these resources are not requested through the Nsf proposal process. It's actually a request for for for allocation of these types of resources. So it's a much simpler type of proposal. There is an FAQ available on their pilot.org, and some instructions on how to go through the request process.

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Alejandro Suarez: These resources are available. 1st come first.st Serve as in once requests have been reviewed and allocated that could limit availability of resources for future requests but we are are looking to make these awards and review awards quite quickly compared to more traditional government funding activities in that within about 6 weeks of submission. You may be expected to see a response in terms of the status of your your request.

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Alejandro Suarez: So it's a simple way to get in. But we recognize that there's a variety of different types of activities that you may want to accomplish.

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Alejandro Suarez: Related to AI research and education. They may not be. They. They may be a bit more substantive than just requesting allocations. And so I'm gonna talk a little bit about a recent year. Colleague letter that we've come out with. And my colleague Ellen, will talk about some of the AI education opportunities that Nsf and our computer science director, Directory, Directoritt has made available.

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Alejandro Suarez: So when it comes to

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Alejandro Suarez: more larger scale or demonstration project scale activities that you may wish to take on using near pilot resources. We have a dear colleague letter that was recently released, which asks for early types of research activities or supplemental funding requests to existing Nsf projects

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Alejandro Suarez: that are separate from our allocation request process. This is looking for teams of AI researchers or domain scientists, cyber infrastructure specialists that are looking to do something quite unique and innovative with the near pilot resources that is above and beyond what could be possible with just an allocation request

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Alejandro Suarez: so this activity you can read more about by scanning the QR code on the right or going to the link below these require sending a concept paper a concept outline to us via the Nsf email address that you see at the bottom. But we welcome consideration of such requests. If you're looking at something at that scale

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Alejandro Suarez: when it comes to the education activities, though I'm sure this is what you're all here and interested to learn about. I'm going to turn it over to my colleague, Alan Zagora, who will talk about some of the AI educator opportunities that Nsf. Has.

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Alejandro Suarez: Take it away. Ellen.

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Ellen Zegura: Thanks. Al, appreciate it, Ellen Zagora. I'm a a division director of computer and network systems and size, the same part of Nsf that that Al and and Jenny reside in I wanna put the nair

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Ellen Zegura: pilot classroom opportunities into a little bit of a bigger context about Nsf's commitments to education. And Nsf's recent efforts in the area of AI education. So Nsf has longstanding commitments to stem education at all levels. Nsf is a research funding agency. But

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Ellen Zegura: the education pipeline is an incredibly important part of the research ecosystem. And so a Nsf is long. Recognize that supporting stem education is an important part of the work that we do. In the area of AI. We have, stood up an educate AI initiative. This came into into

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Ellen Zegura: reality at the end of last year, and it has a a tall order for its goal the the broad goal is to enable educators to make state of the art inclusive. AI educational experiences available nationwide. That's a that is a tall order, especially when you consider that the learners who who will need to or are interested in learning about AI are really spread across the entire spectrum from K 12

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Ellen Zegura: to undergraduate community college and undergraduate experiences into graduate school as well as upscaling and reskilling of workers. So it's a it's a big, it's a big ask it's a big lift to have state of the art educational experiences in AI made available broadly.

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Ellen Zegura: the Nair pilot classroom effort is a key component of educate AI and as as Al has been describing, and you'll hear more about from the 2 partner presentations. The Nair pilot classroom is intended to make it possible for more educators to be able to incorporate

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Ellen Zegura: incorporate assignments into their courses that would need AI resources. Those may not be available in your own institution. It may be cost prohibitive for you to access them through other means. And so that's a key part of what the near pilot classroom effort is trying to make possible

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Ellen Zegura: in the long term. Thinking about education. We know that. It's a lot more than just access to resources. It's also building communities and communities of practice of educators who are in similar situations in terms of the students they're trying to reach in terms of the types of courses that they're that they're working to develop and that

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Ellen Zegura: if we can foster communities of practice that will allow everyone to help kind of bootstrap one another. Up into effective classroom practices where we can take the best of what of what's being learned? Across the country at different levels next slide out.

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Ellen Zegura: So I wanted to mention a couple of the programs funding programs that Nsf has already in place where proposals that relate to AI education would be welcome.

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Ellen Zegura: So one of these is a program that goes by the Iuse Q. Acronym. This is on improving undergraduate stem education, and there's a particular portion of it which has to do with computing and undergraduate education.

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Ellen Zegura: You can read the description. I just wanna highlight that this call for proposals asks for re- envisioning how to teach, computing effectively to a broad group of students in a scalable manner and with an emphasis on broadening participation. And in particular, there's a mobilizing track within that solicitation

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Ellen Zegura: to to encourage the development of shared national visions around innovation and inclusion which could very well include AI innovation in undergraduate computing education. So that's 1 of the programs we have. If you are an educator at the undergraduate level this program would Po provide support for rethinking curriculum

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Ellen Zegura: I'll mention a second program. And these are really, these are samples of what Nsf has available that could help support AI education.

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Ellen Zegura: And Nsf has a category of of

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Ellen Zegura: funded entity called a research coordination network. And at 1st glance you might think that this doesn't have much to do with an education effort. But, in fact, despite the r the R. In the name. The goal of the Rcn. Program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education.

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Ellen Zegura: So the E. Isn't. The E is implicit here. A research coordination network can focus on education, and the intent is support to support investigators who are looking at a new field or creating new directions so that they can communicate and coordinate their work, including their work on educational activities, and that they can do so across boundaries. So that's

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Ellen Zegura: sounds a lot like the community of practice concept that I that I mentioned on the previous slide. So

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Ellen Zegura: each of these 2 funding programs can complement the Nar pilot classroom resources to try to help educators both access resources, but also have the time and space to think about the implications for curriculum, and then through Rcns to reach out across other

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Ellen Zegura: institutions and be able to to share best practices.

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Alejandro Suarez: Thank you so much, Ellen.

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Alejandro Suarez: So you've seen a little bit now about some of the the actual Nsf funding opportunities that that are available. We talked about the near pilot research resources that are available. And for our main event we'd like to talk a little bit about the education and educator for educator resources that are available, and these will be done from 2 of our partners

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Alejandro Suarez: from the San Diego super computing center, the prototype National Research platform and from our in kind voca vocarium contributor. So right before I go into them, I just need to go through one statement, since we have private partners involved. So this is to allow researchers and educators to learn more about the resources that are available via non near pilot.org and just as a note Nsf does not endorse any specific information in in organizations, the views they may express

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Alejandro Suarez: or the project services they offer. But with that I'd like to turn it over to my colleagues at the San Diego Supercomputing center to talk about the prototype national research, platform.

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Alejandro Suarez: so frank.

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Frank Wurtheim: Slain.

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Alejandro Suarez: Rita, take it away!

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Frank Wurtheim: Let's go straight to the next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: So we're going to talk a little bit about philosophy

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Frank Wurtheim: and then mostly about what is actually on offer next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: The

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Frank Wurtheim: ultimately, what we're trying to do here is that the Nrp is designed to democratize access.

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Frank Wurtheim: and we want to connect every community, college, every minority of institution and every college and university, including all urban, rural, and tribal institution.

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Frank Wurtheim: to world-class and secure research and education, infrastructure with particular attention institutions that have been currently undeserved, and of course stole this from the minds we need, as you can see here as a reference. But this is really what

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Frank Wurtheim: but is underlying of what we do next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: This is the current deployment. It is an infrastructure that is literally deployed all over the country. It has 68 institutions at this point and included, and the Nrp. Is a prototype

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Frank Wurtheim: to do exactly what this minds we need was aspiring to

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Frank Wurtheim: and if you are interested in becoming joining this sent me an email that is separate from the one I think we're offering. This is funded via an an Nsf. Grant, I'll skip this next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: Now let's get into what is actually on offer within the context of the near classroom.

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Frank Wurtheim: and what I'm going to talk about is one slide on what's an offer? The resources? And then we'll talk about. How are other people already using this and let me move this this away so that I can actually see my slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: The starting point is.

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Frank Wurtheim: this is what we're offering is a Jupyter resource for classes.

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Frank Wurtheim: And the. In addition to a Jupiter resource for classes as written on the 1st bullet, let me move to the 4th bullet.

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Frank Wurtheim: We have a support community interaction through matrix channels. Matrix is is an open source version of slack. I mean, I assume everybody knows what a slack channel is, and matrix channels are basically the same as slack channels.

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Frank Wurtheim: And the so, in a way, if you listen to, or the previous speaker, we are trying to create a community that teaches

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Frank Wurtheim: via Jupiter resources on our platform, and that community can talk to each other, meaning the educators can talk to each other, learn from each other, develop best practices share best practices da da da.

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Frank Wurtheim: deal with, teach each others about how to get around bugs, etc. Etc. Etc. And all of that is supported via the the matrix channel. In addition

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Frank Wurtheim: where educators talk to each other. We're also offering one, for where the educators talk to the students.

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Frank Wurtheim: In in. And the that's the ticketing system and everything else on this page, I think, is probably self-explanatory. So let's go to the next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: Now, what is required from you. If you want to teach

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Frank Wurtheim: you need to submit a syllabus of the plan class.

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Frank Wurtheim: We can provide you examples from previous classes that have already been taught. And I'll give you some names in the next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: We want to get some information about you from you. What exactly do you need for the course? Do you need data? Where's the location? What's the structure? Basically, we want to understand

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Frank Wurtheim: We wanted to get an understanding of the number of students, the dates, the classes happen.

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Frank Wurtheim: The latter is only important if you use is especially important. If you intend to use our platform inside the classroom, if you use our platform only for for assignments.

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Frank Wurtheim: the dates of the classes as as importantly. And so we also want from you to know

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Frank Wurtheim: what exactly is your plan? Are you planning to use us during classroom?

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Frank Wurtheim: Is it only for assignments? Is it for homework? Is it for quizzes? Are they quizzes at a certain time. Basically, if you bring a few 100 students to our platform, we want to understand when in time, you actually need interactive support. Because

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Frank Wurtheim: when I have 300 students active and want to do something, and that's we want you to tell us as part of your or proposal.

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Frank Wurtheim: Finally, we want to get a little bit of a sense of what kind of resources you need

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Frank Wurtheim: in particular, if you're working, if you intend to do something with ll, M.

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Frank Wurtheim: What's the Lm, what kind of memory those kinds of things? If you don't use lms, then the requirements are probably less stringent.

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Frank Wurtheim: and we need to know a little bit of what to prepare for, so that we can appropriately support you.

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Frank Wurtheim: Now I want to go into. There's at present there's about, I want to say, maybe half a dozen institutions that teach anywhere between a couple to a couple dozen classes on the platform right now.

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Frank Wurtheim: and I want to give you 2 examples. In fact, I'm probably going to just give you one example in dangerous of time. California versus San Bernardino, next slide.

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Frank Wurtheim: Tsu San Bernardino is an interesting institution, in that it has a fair number of students, 19,000,

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Frank Wurtheim: but 57% of them are peltland recipients.

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Frank Wurtheim: it's not your typical Harvard or Mit, or Uses D. For that matter, it is an institution much more representative of the bulk of the 3,900 institution of higher learning in the Us.

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Frank Wurtheim: Currently, they're offering the courses that I've listed here that they've done in the past, and they offer routinely.

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Frank Wurtheim: There's some machine learning, some big data analytics, all the usual stuff that you'd expect

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Frank Wurtheim: And we have filibi of some of these is available for you.

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Frank Wurtheim: The history of Csu San Bernardino on the platform is they very much started, just like you would be starting they

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Frank Wurtheim: started with a single class in our Jupiter Hub. By our Jupiter resources!

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Frank Wurtheim: At that point we loved it. They then created a copy of our hub

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Frank Wurtheim: Okay, I have plenty of time. Then let's go through this. A. Another example is the University of Missouri, which is leveraging the Youtube list for stem and aiml, expansual learning and education.

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David Lin (Vocareum): Yeah. Hi, as Alan Ellen mentioned earlier, there are significant challenges when teaching AI at scale, including supporting a curriculum that incorporates the latest in AI advancements

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David Lin (Vocareum): So today we're pleased to share that to the vulcarium is advancing AI education in partnership with this near pilot classroom initiative.

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David Lin (Vocareum): As you may know, vulcarium is a leading hands-on platform in the tech space. We've reached over 4 million learners and are in use at more than 7,000 colleges and universities worldwide.

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Alejandro Suarez: So those are our contributed partner presentations, and we are now going to open it up for QA. We just want to highlight once again that a recording of this webinar will be available in the next week or so at the event page from which you signed up to this event. So that is available at the link above or at the QR code to your right.

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Alejandro Suarez: So just keep an eye out for the recording that will be posted there. If you wanna learn more about announcements about the near pilot. Say new resources that are coming online, the webinar that we just held, or other types of announcements and activities. You can subscribe to our mailing list right on the homepage of their pilotor. You could scroll down a little bit to the subscribe for updates button that will pre-populate an email that can sign you up for our mailing list.

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Alejandro Suarez: and as a reminder, you can use the QA. Feature on zoom to submit questions. I know we have a team of colleagues at Nsf. And from our our partner con contributors that have already been answering several of your questions. So thank you very much to them. What I'm going to do now is just start going through some of the pending questions that we may be able to answer live as we finish off our presentation today.

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Alejandro Suarez: There was a questioner that asked that on the near pilot web pages there are some resources from Nsf. Cloud Bank and jet stream 2 and other nationally available resources like our super competing resources. What would be the difference between applying

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Alejandro Suarez: Yes, thank you. Thank you, Frank, for that for that clarification. So some of the nationally available resources, like the Nsf Cloud Bank program, they have specific restrictions on who is eligible to apply. So the eligibility criteria to apply for, say, cloud computing resources through Cloud bank are different, and hence someone who may not be eligible via the Cloud Bank route to apply for

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Alejandro Suarez: you. You brought up aws resources. They would be eligible possibly to apply for those resources through the near pilots and through the criteria that we have through the near pilot. So that's another differentiator between these types of availability of resources that we have.

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Alejandro Suarez: That is where you find information about the 2 resources that were described today, and some application instructions, as well as a pointer to the submission system, to be able to put in your application for these resources.

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Alejandro Suarez: at Pnrp and vocarium can respond to this would certificate programs and professional training courses offered by universities be eligible for such resources. So I will just point out in terms of the eligibility criteria. If you're a Us. Based researcher at a Us based institution. So if if you're you're from a us based. Institution. That's the main criteria. So if it's for a course offered by your institution

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Alejandro Suarez: that, that would not negate your eligibility for applying to the the near pilots and applying to these education resources. But I'll let my colleagues from our partners talk about what that fit might look like if you're running a certificate program or professional training course.

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Alejandro Suarez: And just one last clarification when it comes to what it says. Professional training courses. We discussed the eligibility of us based institutions. And those can be research institutions, institutions of higher education. When it comes to any for profit businesses. We talk about how small businesses may be eligible provided they have some sort of federal funding. For example, an sbir award.

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Alejandro Suarez: what you think about the availability of these resources. How easy they are to find how easy they are to use this will all help inform the evolution of the near pilot as we move forward over the coming months.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): We have several question about the feature of now. Maybe in case they can answer that.

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Katie antypas: Yeah, sure, if you read it out, there's.

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Katie antypas: And so what we are, you know, trying to do now is show this the value of this concept to the community? Really include the community and every step of the way to get. You know your your feedback on what is most useful, as we, you know. Hopefully, we'll be able to go forward and build out a larger error.

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Alejandro Suarez: Through infrastructure, like osf or other repositories. So that's a great question. And we should note that when it comes to accessing the research resources available via the near pilot. Any research that is done on use of those resour with use of those resources should be published openly. So in terms of internal research.

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Alejandro Suarez: We don't allow anything that isn't sort of published in some sort of community venue or journal and is is available. The outcomes are available. So this feedback is, is very useful when it comes to the sharing of educational items, and how this evolves the other activities that we funded Nsf. And with other agencies on the curriculum development itself.

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Alejandro Suarez: We should note that the availability of the resources that you heard about today is specifically the infrastructure to support the curriculum or education and training opportunities that you may have existing or that you are developing independently through your through your institutions.

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Alejandro Suarez: But we we're definitely hearing this interest in more openly available training opportunities, coursework and other related work there. Jen, did you have some additional.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): Another question is probably for Dan. Does any access to this chat? The question and answers.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): can I get to the question and answers, besides, the video.

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Alejandro Suarez: Oh, yes, I I see that question as well. Yes, thank you for that feedback. We'll look into how we can make the the the chat transcript available. If we can make that available, it will be available in the same way that we make the recording available, which will be via that event link that you see in the QR code on screen.

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Alejandro Suarez: Yes. So you'll see some documentation on the near pilot website the near classroom. Requests follow a very similar process to what is done for the research application. So essentially, you'll fill out an application. It will be reviewed in terms of an alignment with the near pilot goals and sort of what education activities you're doing, the justification of the resources you're looking for.

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Alejandro Suarez: And so this would be the the the students that may be using the resource for a given class need to be part of a Us. Based institution, so that has nothing to do with citizenship of the students or background of the students or their immigration status of the students. All it has to do is, what is the institutional affiliation of the student?

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): We have several questions about education material. I think. I we answer that is that if we don't have anything right now that you're looking for. Please let us know. Can send us email contact us.

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Alejandro Suarez: Yes, and we will put some of our emails in the chat as well. If you have questions about the A, any of the things that were discussed here.

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Alejandro Suarez: you can reach me via my email as far as@nsf.gov, you may have received that email when you registered for the presentations today. And I'd be happy to forward that along to whoever can answer your question best. Otherwise you can reach out to folks at vocarium or Ucsd or other colleagues at Nsf. Directly.

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Alejandro Suarez: and if you have more general questions about the near pilot or other ways you wish to get involved, my colleague Katie, just put in near_pilot@nsf.gov is our general email address for all inquiries related to the pilot.

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Alejandro Suarez: Yes, Kenya, yes, yes, 2, 5, 6.

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Katie antypas: Yeah,

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Katie antypas: so

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Katie antypas: I I for the near pilot itself, I think. You have to stay tuned to hear more about what may be available in an Fy 24 budget Nsf's a fy, 25 presence request budget is is 30 million dollars for the pilot. You know. That obviously, is is public information.

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Katie antypas: And then for the full ner I mean, there's draft legislation in a create AI act.

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Katie antypas: But that, you know, probably has a ways, a ways to go. So though that's, I think, what we can say at this point.

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Alejandro Suarez: Thank you, Katie.

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Alejandro Suarez: There was a question. I'll just note some of these. You can also see in the frequently asked questions. Page of an air pilot.org site but this may be worth bring up here is someone had asked.

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Alejandro Suarez: That. Do the near requests cover both the Nsf funded infrastructure and industry resources. And if so, what is the maximum allowable request? Size? So anything that is listed on theirpilot.org is eligible to be requested through that opportunity directly through the application process there. So that includes a mixture of activities funded by Nsf. As well as other agencies.

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Alejandro Suarez: And the non-government contributors. When it comes to any. Sorry, I think I lost the question here. When it comes to any other

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Alejandro Suarez: maximums in terms of how much you can request.

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Alejandro Suarez: There's no specific limitation right now on how large of a request you can make especially some of our non government providers like vocarium have noted what is the total amount of resources that they've been able to make available. So I think that's something to keep in mind when you're requesting a resource is you're not likely to be able to get a request for the entirety of the resource that's available. It would have to be some fraction of that.

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Alejandro Suarez: I can let my colleagues at Pnrp. Or vocarium talk about some of the scale that you've worked in in the past, or what may make sense when you're looking at proposals or or requests within the near pilot structure.

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David Lin (Vocareum): Yeah, for for vulgarium. We

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David Lin (Vocareum): are very scalable. So we are able to accommodate most requests. You know, we we do run

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David Lin (Vocareum): synchronous you know, large scale events. Actually, this week we're at the data bricks and AI summit, and they've been running workshops all week

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David Lin (Vocareum): on on our platform

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David Lin (Vocareum): with dozens of of learners.

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David Lin (Vocareum): So we can, we can, you know, bring in lots of synchronous learners. It could be, you know, small classrooms as well.

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David Lin (Vocareum): And and of course asynchronous is pretty

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David Lin (Vocareum): pretty straightforward.

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Alejandro Suarez: Anything from our Pnrp colleagues in terms of

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Alejandro Suarez: maximum size requests that, or what what you see is the scalability of how much of the resource you can make available for a given request.

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Frank Wurtheim: I think. Let me give you.

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Frank Wurtheim: It is clearly not as scalable as our commercial friends here.

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Frank Wurtheim: I think the a reasonable

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Frank Wurtheim: assumption that we are making right now is that we will run out of human effort before we run out of computer computing infrastructure.

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Frank Wurtheim: The what we're

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Frank Wurtheim: assuming

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Frank Wurtheim: we can set aside

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Frank Wurtheim: is an infrastructure equivalent to what uses D. Uses to do its own teaching.

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Frank Wurtheim: and uses. D. Teaches 50 courses simultaneously

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Frank Wurtheim: across 5,000 students.

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Frank Wurtheim: I think if you came to us and said, you want a thousand student courses that you're teaching.

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Frank Wurtheim: we probably would reject it.

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Frank Wurtheim: because we probably that doesn't make doesn't make sense.

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Frank Wurtheim: If it is a few 100, a few 100, it's probably doable.

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Frank Wurtheim: And where exactly the line is is unclear.

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Frank Wurtheim: does that help.

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Alejandro Suarez: Thank you, Frank.

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Alejandro Suarez: I think.

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Mahidhar Tatineni: Yeah, I I also want to jump in and say, that's actually one of the reasons we were asking about the sizes of the resources and all for for the particular class, because it could

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Mahidhar Tatineni: also depend on what your particular class needs. Right? You could have a case where

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Mahidhar Tatineni: you scale up a lot and need a lot of resources.

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Mahidhar Tatineni: Yeah, obviously.

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Frank Wurtheim: Obviously, you're not going to be able to use P. And Rp. To teach a class on how to change at Ubt.

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Frank Wurtheim: That's obvious.

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Frank Wurtheim: Neither. None of us can offer that.

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Frank Wurtheim: obviously. And so there are obviously limits.

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Frank Wurtheim: And and where exactly those are we'll have to

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Frank Wurtheim: sort out. This is why it's called a pilot.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): Okay? So why we here, what it? What about minimum? Any minimum for the students in the class? That's just one question just came up.

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Frank Wurtheim: I see no reason why there should be any minimum.

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David Lin (Vocareum): And no minimum here, either.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): Okay, thank you.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): And another question also, for

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): I think you mentioned 25 regional chapters, how come the valley is not included.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): Think that's for Frank, probably.

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): The last one. Yes, 3, 1, 8.

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Frank Wurtheim: Unless

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Juan Jenny Li (NSF/OAC): Or 3, 1, 8, 3, 1, 8.

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Frank Wurtheim: I don't understand the question.

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Alejandro Suarez: So someone had asked Snare open to collaborating with nonprofits. Universities

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Alejandro Suarez: have their own funding programs

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Alejandro Suarez: that they want to leverage to support narrow development in particular help with development, distribution of materials.

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Alejandro Suarez: For that questioner feel free to reach out at narrow underscore pilot and nsf.gov, especially if there are activities, you know, if there's contributions you wish to make, or if an allocation on some of our resources can can help some of your development activities. If there's some unique way that you'd you'd be interested in partnering with the Narr. We're happy to happy to hear it.

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Alejandro Suarez: Think we're

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Alejandro Suarez: running out of time.

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Alejandro Suarez: I think at this point

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Alejandro Suarez: let me just go through our slides one more time, because there were a few questions

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Alejandro Suarez: regarding

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Alejandro Suarez: I think it's the so there, some some questions about contacting Pnrp, I think that can that can be done through

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Alejandro Suarez: reaching out to me or through the near pilot inbox. There's

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Alejandro Suarez: If if you have any further questions on that, we'll we'll be sure to route you to the right to the right person.

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Alejandro Suarez: But I think that maybe about about time for us.

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Alejandro Suarez: So I think what I'm want to do is 1st off, I, I wanna give a great thank you to our partners at Pnrp and vocarium to be able to tell us a little bit more about our activities.

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Alejandro Suarez: I'd also like to thank my colleagues, Ellen Zagura and Jenny Lee, who talked about the education opportunities that Nsf. Has available, as well as Katie Antipas, our office director, who has helped out with our QA. We have some other colleagues within Nsf.

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Alejandro Suarez: Marlon Pierce and our science technology policy fellow, Daniel Bullock, who has also been tirelessly answering a lot of the questions in the background that you've been asking. So thank you all so much for coming we hope to have more of these webinars on different near pilot resources opportunities new activities that relate to the pilot in in the coming weeks and months. So please look forward to

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Alejandro Suarez: future announcements via our mailing list, and we look forward to hearing from you all on the the great types of applications you may put in

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Alejandro Suarez: and how you'd be able to use these these resources. So thank you so much for coming.

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David Lin (Vocareum): Thank you.