Outreach
Community College AI Curriculum
Creating ground-breaking curriculum in AI at the community college level, breaking down barriers and providing research opportunities to community college students.
Del Mar College AI Award
First of its kind, AI Occupational Award at the community college level.
Internships & Occupational Placement
Inspired by AI, computer science, and meteorology research, our community college alumni graduate to new amazing opportunities.
Del Mar College AI Award
We have designed, implemented, and successfully deployed a new Community College AI program, co-developed at Del Mar College and in conjunction with Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. The award is designed as a multi entry program for professionals to augment their skills, for high school students as a next step in their education, for direct employment.
The South Texas location of the new Community College AI educational program is part of our efforts to advance the AI workforce. We have tested this model to create an Applied AI workforce, in addition we have created a new educational pipeline. We are working to export this model nationwide through a collaboration with the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program of two-year community colleges. NSF AI2ES will work with the directors and principal investigators of ATE national centers to disseminate the new curriculum materials through the networks and workshops.
We have achieved the following goals:
- three new ML/GIS courses
- Pilot development of Artificial Intelligence Community College Educational program at Del Mar College
- Nationwide promotion and documentation of the DMC/NSF AI2ES new program
- Began assisting the development similar programs across the nation
- Created a sustainable pathway of new students from secondary school while continuing to serve returning adult learners
Internships & Occupational Placement
NSF AI2ES hires current community college students undergraduate research assistantships, breaking down barriers for recruitment in science.
We have a strong pipeline of current and former Del Mar College students moving on to be hired as undergraduate research assistants at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi’s Conrad Bluchar Institute (Jonah Hamilton, Elisa Flores, Anointiyae Beasley), DMC students transferring to TAMU-CC (Hector Marrero, Anointiyae Beasley) or other universities (Elisa Flores). Former DMC student Beto Estrada is now a graduate CS student at TAMU-CC. Former DMC students are regularly selected for summer internships (NCAR, NRL).
Anointiyae Beasley and Beto Estrada now work on our R2O Semaphore project. Elisa Flores and Hector Marrero work on our Sea Turtle Conservation project.
Four DMC students have transferred so far to TAMU-CC majoring in Computer Science (3) and Physics (1) with one student also minoring in atmospheric science. TAMU-CC and DMC undergraduate researchers gave 12 presentations as first authors in the 2023-2024 institute cycle, either poster (8) or oral (4). In the 2023-2024 year, TAMU-CC and DMC undergraduate researchers were overall listed as presentations authors or co-authors seventeen times and three undergraduate students are co-authors for a provisionally accepted peer reviewed publication.
Advancing AI in Earth System Science Research
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