Teaching High School Students Research Computing by Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi, Institute for Computing in Research
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01:53 Start with a social justice angle: Andrea
02:40 Discussion: Our educational experiences
12:56 Teaching High School Students
14:55 Start with a social justice angle: Mark
15:58 The central question: transfer of know-how (references Santa Fe Institute Public Lectures)
17:22 Enter the mentor; Examples of students
20:00 Call for mentors; Mark's background and influences
26:16 Three pillars of training
28:26 The 2019, 2020, 2021 interns
36:08 Q&A: Funding and Stipends to Students
41:58 Q&A: Software Freedom at the Institute
46:53 Q&A: Student Reactions to FLOSS
Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi from Los Alamos National Laboratory discuss the Institute for Computing in Research, a pipeline that trains youth to do research and hires high school students to work full time on research internships. Mark co-founded the institute and both mentor students in it. The Institute is rooted in the benefits of software freedom.