<div dir="ltr">Maryland Center for Computing Education is interested in participating in an effort towards Broadening Participation with ECEP<div><br></div><div>Dianne<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Sarah Dunton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdunton@cs.umass.edu" target="_blank">sdunton@cs.umass.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><b>Please reply by Thursday 4/26</b><div><br></div><div>If you are interested in continuing the discussion started on the ECEP call regarding a potential EAGER grant proposal to develop a state-level a BPC resource sharing model in support of <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bpc/" target="_blank">NSF’s commitment to BPC</a>, please complete this <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/752mptmt3rh483fh" target="_blank">Doodle Poll</a>. <div><br></div><div>This funding focuses on linking CISE PIs with BPC opportunities in your state and is part of the NSF CISE effort to "<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">enhance support for the foundations of BPC through dedicated outreach to the community and support for PIs to learn about BPC. In addition, all CISE PIs will be strongly encouraged to include meaningful BPC plans in the Broader Impacts section of submitted proposals, starting with deadlines in fall 2017 (refer to program-specific solicitations for details), and/or to begin preparing to include such plans in future proposal submissions.” (</font></span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bpc/" target="_blank">https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bpc/</a><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><wbr>)</span></font> </div><div><br></div><div>In our meeting we will flesh out what an application from ECEP could look like, and develop a model that would meet and support the new NSF BPC requirements. </div><div>Thank you, </div><div>Sarah </div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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