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for that introduction thank you so much james for that introduction we're so excited to be here and uh we thank you for this opportunity if you're a community college and you're thinking about working with a federal agency you're probably not thinking about the department of energy that may not immediately come to mind perhaps you're considering uh the department of defense the national science foundation or even the department of education but the reason why we're here is that we want you to consider the ue as an option there's so much prestige that community colleges in california bring and you add so much value uh to uh what we're trying to do and so we would like for you to take advantage of our resources and try to leverage them uh to take advantage of them so you can improve uh experiences of your students uh as well as improve the learning of your students our goals for today are to have a conversation around the office of technology transitions toolkit and discuss the opportunities that are within the toolkit and hopefully upon hearing those opportunities you'll become more interested in wanting to work with us and collaborate with us as we go forward uh we're going to actually um delve into the toolkit but before we do so i just want to provide a brief overview of ott and our mission uh we're responsible for uh bringing lab-based technologies to market and part of our our mission our core mission is also to do outreach activity uh to industry and other organizations and that includes community colleges the diagram on the right hand side illustrates this it's interesting community colleges play a pretty uh unique role in that they can be a consumer of dewey tech or alternatively can be working side by side with doe laboratories engaging in technical services uh research and development helping to actually develop the technologies so on this diagram community colleges can fall in multiple places across the spectrum this is an overview of the doe national laboratory complex we have 17 national laboratories and production facilities they are varied in that some fall in a category of engaging in fundamental science others are engaged in applied sciences and still others are doing national security work of our national laboratory lab system the complex has four laboratories in california that actually are operating um we want you to take advantage of this vast network if you're interested in learning more uh there's a link at the bottom of the page the website for lab partnering service and at this website you can learn more about uh collaborating and getting matched with national laboratories based on particular subject areas and interests so uh we want you to work with us uh you have so much to offer and we in turn can support you we have resources and in the form of funding opportunity announcements and grants and competition prizes uh you have the ability to do collaborative research and development and joint research projects and also coming out of the toolkit we have uh effectively um available various opportunities for internships and fellowships there's always going to be a need to do things faster better smarter and community colleges are on the forefront of working to address some this nation some of this nation's greatest challenges and this is an actual uh diagram um from a graphic from the new york times and you'll notice that california is shaded almost entirely in orange and that indicates that a high proportion of the population is engaged in occupations that are expected to grow over the next few years and with that growth that means there's going to be a need for new workers so we want to work with you to develop that next-gen workforce uh to address that talent pipeline and stem to keep that going and workforce development and importantly to address this upcoming skills gap that our nation's facing there are certain challenges that our country faces that industry government and higher education alone cannot address it's only by coming together that we can take advantage of the talents uh that we have to overcome some of the most daunting challenges be it national security cyber security environment for example um in this particular case i would like to shine a spotlight on a success story that we had relating to the covet 19 pandemic and a national laboratory specifically lawrence livermore national laboratory actually uh partnered and created a consortium that cut across higher education government and uh industry and what ended up happening is they drew upon the uh collective um talent of everyone involved in that diversity and they're using lawrence livermore using its advanced manufacturing and advanced technology uh was able to 3d print uh using additive manufacturing the testing swabs that were needed due to the shortage early on the pandemic of the testing squads that were swaps that were in of the testing kits so uh by coming together we were able to address a serious need and that's what we're trying to do across the spectrum relating to a lot of the very complex and challenging things that our country is facing relating to um all the myriad of national security environmental and other challenges that we face if you have the ability to take a screenshot it would be great or take a photo the there's a link at the bottom uh left hand corner of this particular slide that will take you to the ott uh university toolkit the official name is the university resource packet and while a lot of the uh offerings are exclusive to universities uh by no means uh is it only universities that can leverage and take advantage of the toolkit programs uh there's a litany of programs available that community colleges can take advantage of and we would encourage you to do so the toolkit attempts to take very broad based uh offerings and stem outreach and also workforce development and consolidate them into a single location if you're a stakeholder prior to the toolkit if you're interested in learning more you have to go to each individual labs website perhaps each individual program office's website so our attempt with a toolkit is to try to put as much as possible in one place to facilitate access to this uh very helpful information eric again james well uh we'll just so all the participants know we will include the toolkit itself a pdf of the document along with the recording of this on the ecu sector website for folks who may not be able to take a screenshot or review that it'll be located at our website as well and i'll put our website's link in the chat box for anybody who does not have it so thanks fantastic thank you james i really appreciate that there's so many great opportunities relating to internships and fellowships uh that we want um the audience to take advantage of and by all means please disseminate it share it with your colleagues uh your your fellow students and um hopefully uh if you have feedback you'll share with us so we can go back and make adjustments and improve the document going forward noelle's going to speak to some of the specific programs that are available however i just wanted to give a brief snapshot to the types of things that you and programs that you could find in the toolkit um they cut across uh you know faculty level and also all levels uh you know k through 12 uh community colleges and universities um at all levels so we just want to at um again it's got university in the name but there are a myriad of programs that we want you to look at and avail yourselves of to conclude let's put our heads together and try to tackle some of these uh unique challenges let's let's work to address some of these uh skills gaps and the challenges that we're facing uh community colleges california have very potent capabilities and are the forefront of addressing some of these challenges like the vanguard of truly um really uh tackling some of our really daunting and dire issues so let us help we want to support you and we have resources to do so we have stem outreach and stem programs in the form of fellowships and internships for your students we have funding opportunities available on a limited basis for prize competitions uh some funny opportunity announcements some grants and also of course i want to mention that we have the ability to do joint efforts and take on technical services uh collaborative research and development of joint research and various contractual type joint projects that we can engage in uh to learn more uh the lab partnering service again is a great resource and once again we have the link and james mentioned that he'll provide the toolkit but the link is also here as well and with that hand things back over to james thank you so much i'm glad and thank you again eric um and i think we'll get a little more granular with the next two presenters on on examples of programs and we're talking about internships fellowships what that what that means and its application to the folks on this call um and i'm glad you addressed the university toolkit somebody you know so i i suspect some folks had uh made it to the toolkit and wondered with the university uh moniker on the top its application to community colleges so it's good to see there is application across k-12 community college and four-year institutions so uh without further ado i believe noel is going next so i will hand it off to you and all yours you're on mute noel forgive me uh all these virtual protocols you know you keep forgetting that you don't mute and you start talking so forgive me my name is noel blackburn i'm the manager of university relations and doe internship programs at brookhaven national lab and what i'd like to focus on uh some of the mechanisms that you can use to develop collaborations at bnl and specifically through internship type programs next slide but before we move on i wanted to um focus on patriot and patriotism because a lot of times you forget that patriotism is about love and concern and support of country and every the entire focus is only on the defense part next and what you'd realize is community college professors are the ones who are going to educate the next generation of technicians and engineers and that in itself is patriotism next and you all will understand why it is i started off this way because i want you all to recognize the value and how important you are as we move forward so in stem research next you must develop good questions you must have good questions and that starts in the classroom next and these questions would then lead to good research and good research next leads to innovation and the reason why i say um it leads to innovation is because innovation then leads to next quality of life and a perfect example is we all have the smartphone right and the power of what we hold in our hands 60 years ago was the size of a building probably a three or four storey building and here it is today we could use our smartphones plug in an address and it will direct you exactly to that address that's quality of life next and importantly technicians and engineers impact those areas the research and the innovation part of what i call is this research model that i believe is so important as we move on next so my colleague eric went through quickly about the dod complex next and i i want you all to understand that the department of energy owns 17 national labs of which the office of science owns 10 national labs and of those 10 national labs they are multi-disciplinary labs and i just wanted to give you all an overview of five of these multidisciplinary labs next eric and so here is an aerial of argon national lab which is one of the multi-disciplinary labs owned by the office of science next next and then we have oak ridge national lab lawrence berkeley we could go through quickly next we have pacific northwest national labs and finally we have brookhaven national lab and brookhaven national labs and all of the national labs they have major facilities major and unique facilities that universities can't replicate hence you have a national lab and at dnl we have four major user facilities next the first one is the relativistic heavy iron collider and that's that big circle you see there the second is the center for functional nanomaterials the third will be the national synchrotron light source and this basically is where you have electrons accelerating in a in a circle in a magnetic field and it it gives the synctron light that you can use as an x-ray machine these are major facilities and all of these facilities require engineers sometimes we think of the department of energy and we may just focus or it's energy or or ncs physics or um lawrence livermore they just do that nuclear stuff and and and bnl is only that physics but all of the facilities that we have at national labs require engineering and technicians to support their mission next i also want to just let you all know that a number of nobel prizes have been won at dnl and all of the sister labs and so we're not um we are very familiar with with with winners and and nobel prize winners and and high awards next i also wanted to just give you all a brief overview of the core capability so for example yes the physics part but then when you go down you'll see the chemical and molecular science you'd see the applied material science you'd see climate change biological accelerated science large facilities and uh systems and engineering and integration so it's really multidisciplinary as we move forward in um the quest for scientific truth it has to be a multi-disciplinary approach and we have many many different facets that come into play next one of the big the next big discovery on on machines that we are going to be building is the relativistic heavy iron collider which was the first gen of colliders and led to the big collider that we have in cern we are going to be repurposing the relativistic heavier and collider or rick into an electron ion collider which is called the um the eic now this is going to be answering a number of questions one of which has been a wrong for a hundred years next slide but also what this is going to lead to uh uh cures and and um solutions for cancer um computational analysis and and computational capabilities that will be um beyond even thinking beyond um i wouldn't say beyond but quantum like uh it will also focus on national security with regards to detectors development and advanced in energy solutions uh this electron ion collider is going to as a matter of fact today was um the somewhat of the ground breaking for it and it the construction aspect of it is going to be for the next 10 years but then you'll have the science piece and the experimental piece for another 30 40 years and this is just one example of all of the 17 national labs of the big big user facilities and experiments that you can expect from a national lab next i just wanted to quickly again go through one of the things that national labs like to do is partnerships and at bnl we tend to focus on the energy and irony approach and you'd see all of our partners that we have in our um collaborations under energy and the different user facilities that we have as a matter of fact we have a test bed um for solar cells and on our campus which is about 5300 acres of land we have 200 acres of solar cells that's already producing electricity into the grid next so here it is i uh the presentation is really to focus on the mechanism and i just wanted you all to get an appreciation of the scope and breadth of all of um forgive me folks uh the scope and breadth of the type of research that is being done at b l but out of my office the office of educational programs and there you see the link to it we do a number of activities to get uh students and faculty involved next so what we do we have internship programs that we design and implement we love to work with community colleges and four-year institutions to develop collaborations we assist our researchers in the broader impacts for grants and we can work with um professors especially if they're going after grants nsf grants with regards to the broader impacts we promote bnl science and doe science in the classroom we develop pools of users for our facilities at pnl we are a workforce leader in the office of science workforce development for teachers and scientist programs and expanding the reach of b l scientific community through workshop meetings and other conferences as you see our office we have programs from k-12 all the way to 20 post off programs next so what are some of the programs we have that is typical not atypical but typical to any other doe lab throughout the country so we have summer internship programs and today i'll be focusing on the top three programs across there which is the science undergraduate laboratory internship program the community college internship program and the visiting faculty program but we also have other programs that you could get involved and you could go on to the website and you can get more details on them one of the ways we partner with colleges and universities so for example we have we have partnered with stony brook university and suffolk community college in an a gap program where we are bringing underrepresented pro um this uh phd students to give them exposure on how to teach in the classrooms so when they move when they have graduated they have the necessary tools that they would be able to be a very competitive person or candidate for teaching positions we in new york state we have something called the college science technology entry program and this program is where you bring underrepresented minorities and underserved communities into stem and we also work with the lewis stokes alliance for minority participation these are just but some of the examples in which we could work with programs at different universities and colleges and we are always looking in extending how it is we collaborate with two-year colleges next great so let's talk about the community college internship program so the community college internship program or cci is a 10 week program during the summer and it's full-time during the summer and it can be part-time or full-time during the regular semester these are paid internship programs community college students can um come to this program twice during their tenure at school and they get a six hundred dollars a week stipend and if their permanent address is beyond the 50-mile radius of the lab and in vnl's case obviously with california um you're way beyond the 50-mile radius you get free housing and round-trip transportation as a matter of fact we have had a number of community college students from california from the west coast participating in our program but what is interesting about this program is these students can have two tracks that they can go into they can go into a research track or they can go into engineering and project oriented track which leads to technician type opportunities at the end of the program they all have to write an abstract a poster a research paper and they all get to present their research at a major poster session at our closing ceremony next so students can participate in this program the cci program twice they can apply to the program three times but they can actually participate in the program twice now what the cci program does is they take a community college student and make them very competitive so they can apply to the suli which is the science undergraduate laboratory internship program they can apply to that program once they get the kind of experience and exposure and have the competitiveness so that they can get a sulei program the suli program is really targeted towards four and two-year colleges students and it is also a paid internship program however it's a full-time program in the summer for 10 weeks and a full-time program during the regular semester for 16 weeks some students decide that they are going to take a semester off and do some research some students when they graduate they have up until two years to apply to any of these programs again you have enrichment modules and they have to produce an abstract poster and a research paper again next the one the program that i'm very excited to really talk to this group about is the visiting faculty program and the visiting faculty program is where a faculty can bring one or two students to um participate on a mutually agreed project with an engineer or a scientist at any of the national labs and it's again it's a paid internship it's only during the summer it's for 10 weeks uh the faculty will get 1400 a week and the students will get 600 a week as a stipend they will be provided around trip transportation and also housing at b l all of our housing is on our campus so that's one of the things that is very attractive to students and also to faculty but this is a launch point for faculty to really strengthen or develop their research capabilities but also to develop research capacity for their home institutions and one of the things that we look for coming out of this program although it's the launch point we want this to be sustainable and durable so we design the programs in such a way that faculty can continue so you are able to come back three times in this program to conduct research during the summer at any one of the national labs next at the end of the internship programs at all of the internship programs we tend to have a closing ceremony and we would have graduate panel discussion talking about graduate schools we have a graduate field where we have a number of graduate schools that come and and talk to our interns and try to get them into uh their graduate schools because they have recognized that these students who have conducted research are valuable and are very good when they're going to the graduate sphere we have oral presentations and poster presentations and a closing ceremony and what i want to mention here is the applications for these programs for summer open the first week in october and they close the first week in january and it's very important that you all get all of the applications in and i'm hoping that you as professors will encourage your students to go onto our websites and each lab would have their own website and take a look at um what are the areas of interest and also very importantly i would hope that you professors would consider collaborating with the department of energy and the national labs through this particular mechanism next and there it is questions i guess um james you tell me if we're gonna have questions no at the end sorry well i i had a couple questions myself um and as moderator i think i can i can go in first um but i also invite everyone else to to i think we'll take a break right now and sort of clear out questions that folks have but i i've got a couple that others on this webinar may be thinking as well so first in terms of capacity what are the numbers of internships whether it's suli or the other programs uh just in terms you know california has 115 community colleges in and of itself so if you if this webinar were to spur um some tremendous interest which no doubt it may um what are the odds of actually being successful in in that program so it's very interesting the the suli program which is for both four and two-year college students it's very competitive you're looking at probably in the order of about six to seven to one so six applications and you would probably get one um and i think that has been increasing also however the cci program is more in the order of one to one because you don't have a lot of students community college students taking advantage of the cci program and this is the opportunity for community college students to get the kind of tools or or skills in their toolbox so that they can be more competitive as they move on to a suli program or other program internship programs because they have one created and networking but more importantly they also have the kind of skills that researchers and engineers would be looking for i hope that as a follower yeah yeah as a follow-up to that someone just out in the chat box asks so it's just for clarification is sully only for university students or with that no no no no that's truly and i'm sorry the suli is for both four and two-year colleges the cci program is only for two-year colleges and the cool thing about it is as a cci student or intern you could actually participate four times with the department of energy through this process as compared to a university student who could only participate two times which is only in the suli program so there is an advantage for the community college student that's great thank you and it sounds like and there may have been some some misnomers of just understanding that it sounds like most of your programs are not exclusive to the geography that your community college may be located within it sounds like there's transferability that whether the best application of your interests is in another state in another lab that's not a hindrance on whether relocated in california or not no no no it's a national program at all of the national labs as a matter of fact i can speak profoundly about dnl we have had students from alaska from hawaii from puerto rico from california utah i could go down it's a national program that's great that's great that's good to know for the group here and third is you know the the shadow in the room is covid so when you mention the program and you've mentioned the timelines for october application is that still moving forward this year given given coven and the opportunities so it's interesting uh so you know um each lab will have numbers with regards to our program specifically and i i want you all to understand these programs that i outline are very specific to the department of energy the office of science each lab will have other internship programs so at b l we had about 385 interns uh in 2019 summer unfortunately because of kovid we could only have virtual internship program so virtual projects and we only had about 150 students in these virtual in in this virtual mood this past summer this fall we are still virtual and we have an and we don't have much interns for the fall and the spring semesters but we have in the order of 35 interns and four of which are community college that are doing virtual internship programs for the fall we're hoping as we move forward that um that would change and for the summer of 2021 but more than likely as we move forward we all know that the way we have done business in the past would change we are thinking of having a hybrid internship program which is a combination of virtual interns and on-site interns and this will give us even a broader scope the fewer number of interns that you had in the in the uh virtual model was that uh as a result of the situation and fewer applications or was it capacity internally to handle fewer because of the virtual nature of it so it was because of the virtual media um our internship programs are really hands-on we have a lot of bench type work and specifically for technicians and cci students um it's it's hands-on and they have to be in the lab and unfortunately we had restrictions because of covert for um access understood understood any other questions in the chat box that you'd like noel to respond to and again we'll have a broader conversation on q a later but if there's nothing now i will hand it off to beth thanks again beth sure thanks for joining us today um it's nice to see uh a broad list of attendees i have been at lawrence livermore for about 15 years and have been working with the um kel with community colleges since around 2014 uh and what i'm going to talk about today this is this is kind of your deep dive you so we started with pretty high level doe and and then the welsh shared uh some of the doe programs what brookhaven's doing we look very similar to brookhaven when if i if i got into details about programs and opportunities and um but what i really wanted to do today was really show you um some uh some models that are currently going on at least with with our laboratory and what the potential would be uh with the four national labs that are here in the bay area alone so with that let's just go ahead and to the next slide please so most of the laboratories are in the situation that we have an aging workforce most government agencies are in this situation just in my department the engineering department we have 2 000 employees and we've actually hired uh a thousand new employees in in the last five years and because of retirements and because of um new business coming in we expect that um we're going to need again just in my department a thousand more people in the next five years and many uh many of these are middle skilled needs when i when i push this out and look at the picture for the full lawrence livermore laboratory it's probably about 2 000 engineers and scientists and i know i'm talking to community college folks i know you know what middle skill workers are but for those that just in case you don't those are the you know many we need many two-year graduates in a variety of stem areas as well so between the four labs of barrie which are slack berkeley sandia and lawrence livermore we are all we all work together because we have amazingly high workforce needs and um we're this is a great opportunity for those of you that are looking for opportunities to to um to spend your strong workforce money and the program i'm going to talk about today is one that that a couple of community colleges have used the strong workforce monies to develop with us so the next slide a big part of my particular job is university relations uh diversity and inclusion and then running the student program for engineering now we normally host about 200 students just in engineering students but the laboratory hosts between 1000 and 1200 students each year in covid we jump through hoops just like you did as educators and we did come up with a remote internship program this summer um it breaks my heart because i love interacting with students and we we could only have the zoom meetings and and i know that the students felt you know that they were happy to have jobs this summer but i know that there was many things that were missing uh in those relationships but we really do use and look at students community college students and university students not only as you know as our workforce pipeline but you're the key to the kingdom for building the diversity part and and i think that um i don't know that a lot of companies know that yet i think a lot of companies are used to working just with universities and and just like myself included in the in the last few years i've realized knowing much more about community colleges that we have to get involved with you in order to build this workforce whether it's a two-year program or whether it's a program that transfers into one of our key schools next slide so in 2013 lawrence berkeley nasa lawrence livermore slack and maybe some of the folks that are on this call i think we had about 10 or 12 community colleges came to lawrence livermore and we brainstormed over um a new a stem program um and we were asked uh specifically and this was uh hosted not hosted it was coordinated through a non-profit called growth sector um and we were asked about what are the key educational components that we need to that are acceptable in the national labs that that make students successful and what we agreed upon was that math of course is the key element and we know that you're dealing with a lot of remedial math entrance students and we and that is where a lot of the failure points are and so one of the things that the uh the colleges came up with with grow sector is an accelerated math program um the laboratories agreed that a everybody has really specific needs and the colleges each have specific areas of applied learning you might be strong in machining or welding or drafting um and we we want to leverage that we want and but we also just want the students to have a basic science background uh before coming into the laboratory the next thing what that we talked about from his historical point of view that's been really successful at the community colleges is the cohort learning now not all the schools have kicked off cohort learning but since las vecitus is in our backyard they kicked off from this meeting they kicked off a cohort learning program it was focused on veterans because they had over 500 veterans and i know saddleback and palomar and you know some of the southern california schools have many more veterans and we have maybe crossed paths because of this conversation why veterans and why national labs being new to the community college environment two things one is uh we actually kind of like non-traditional students they bring a little bit more maturity to us the veterans i work in a weapons lab and so the veterans understood the security they understood the security needs and they understand the values and and basically our mission and although we're very intimidating because only smart people work at the national labs um we interacted with those students early on and it was it's been a very successful program las positas has since opened up that cohort program to all students and it is truly a pipeline to us ohlone college followed suit they work with their feeding students they have a new ee tech program they have the same labs come in and help them and coach them on what that should look like they also of course included tesla and probably lam research but they um they're standing up a new ee tech program that we're we're all uh committed to uh not only for internships but for the apprenticeship program and i know i saw that um adele's on the call from the regional director of apprenticeship program so we have been educated on apprenticeship programs and we are definitely here to partner with you on expanding that so i thought you'd like to hear that good news so some of the other schools that have adopted this stem core program are evergreen skyline los wasidas obviously ohlone mission colleges and there are probably a few other schools i understand that there's 15 and all and i've taken this nationwide with growth sector and so we actually have uh eight or nine national labs that are leveraging that particular curriculum and developing uh community college relationships in their states so thank you california community colleges for that so let's go to the next slide so um the as we as we uh really travel down this path with community colleges um these are the the praises that i'm singing to my peers and that you are the you are the place where we're going to get diversity and it's important that we come in and support you now um you do offer specialized training you do have a strong workforce money that can help support that you have many of our non-traditional students we know that you're motivated to respond to employer needs um and you're the pipeline at least you know mostly to our key california universities that are workforce pipeline um we we understand uh that you are you know the it's my understanding that's the community colleges where the apprenticeships are happening i have not spoken to any four-year schools that have talked to me about apprenticeships um and then the other advantage that i really promote is that when we hire a lonely or las vegas or laney college student we often have them year round and that's really where we're blending the apprenticeship program we may have hired them through the suli or the ceci program probably the cci program in the summer and if they worked out well and we're happy and they're happy with us they are they are receiving apprenticeship opportunities so the new so one of the new um newer opportunities that i wanted to bring to your attention is uh the lawrence berkeley lab just received a 115 million dollars from the department of energy to build new quantum technology systems and that's really with the goal of building a workforce that's ready to to contribute to those areas and they're going to be looking for community colleges and four-year schools to develop new curriculums with now does this mean that there is money coming to the school i don't know uh but i would say that uh this does mean that there are there's new career paths my point is that there's new careers emerging all the time within the um within the national laboratories and one of the reasons that the university is like having us on the boards as well as the community colleges is we give you that insight on what's coming next and that's what we're all asking for what's what's next in in the stem world what's what do we need to prepare our students for so um really really encourage you to reach out to us for for any uh advice or you know on curriculum or in your programs that you're interested in and i can help be that person for california and i think james and i can can work on that not sure how you want to do that but i'm going to offer that up to you and then the next slide please so the my experience with running student programs for the next for the last oh gosh five years is and that's really exciting and i like to brag about this is i change lives because when we bring students in and they are community college particularly when they're exposed to phd's and and folks with master's they go hey i don't look any different than them i have the same you know they start to believe in themselves and they're really really encouraged uh it's a very different relationship as you can imagine with a with a research scientist than a college faculty member or staff member and so um we have seen many students coming out of our two-year program well i've got at least i can't even give you a statistic on that uh 20 percent of the students that we that graduated from the two-year law species of student program have actually gone on to four-year schools and completed their engineering or computer science degrees and there's a growing number of those that are going on to their masters so very very proud of being a partner with you to really help stimulate the long-term education goals of our our students and i think that is pretty much everything that i wanted to to really bring to light to you thank you so much for that beth i think it's uh you know we can only fit so much into an hour webinar on a friday right but i think we've really reached the goals of one that's quite honestly being an eye opener for the individuals who are part of this webinar of what the opportunities are right i mean when you hear doe you think energy which that has been debunked um you know and then the breadth of opportunities i think that's it's it's threefold if not more that you certainly have the resources and tools for faculty specifically in terms of content um curriculum and program development but you also have certainly a bucket of resources that are concentric in terms of the relevance to the classroom and providing those internships and mentorships and at the end of the day you are major employers in the region and so when it comes to a full talent pipeline sourcing function you certainly play a role in the communities for that as well so um that that that was first and foremost for this webinar was to provide that that umbrella um support for the individuals on the call today i guess i'll start with one question and then i'd invite individuals in the chat box to to submit their questions and we'll start running through them but but first and foremost and ben you bet you touched on it was all right so this sounds great where do i start if i'm on this call um you know i'm sure there are contact information and contact names and numbers in the in the toolkit um but youth three sort of uh first-hand ambassadors with this group um is that something that if somebody has a question to just reach out to you specifically and individually to ask questions and and you know a lot of these programs are very robust but perhaps could be looking a little daunting of of to initiate that conversation how how has that gone in the past and how would you like it to go here well i'll just tell you a little secret we need everybody all 115 schools with the workforce needs that we have so if you wish for them yeah no um we really we can't uh we can't you know the ohlone's and the laney's and the las posita schools and the deltas though we can't get enough um even for just my laboratory we can't get enough so uh and i work with all four labs uh on a regular basis and so if people want to reach out to me i'm happy to be the the connector um you know i will do my best i do work i mentioned grow sector they are i would just say that one of the things i used to say when i gave talks about these programs is i didn't know how to speak to community colleges and that sounds really snobby but it we didn't we weren't used to working with you and so um the the the uh the nonprofit actually helped us understand your dollars and and how things work because it's very you're very different than the four-year university and so um so i do partner with them closely but i am more than happy to uh take any requests and and connect dots for people that's great eric and uh noel are you in the same bucket but i'm what i'm leaning toward is perhaps on the toolkit in the recording of this to to also include your your email contact information for anybody who's interested yes absolutely please do uh i was going to suggest that um anyone can contact us directly um so please include my points of contact and uh also i would suggest the toolkit itself is a wonderful resource if there's questions or a need for further information by all means please reach out to us and uh perhaps connect you to the appropriate person given whatever case whatever case might be right great well we do we have a question from bruce noble and i think this question is for beth is the foundational stem curriculum considered as a prerequisite sequence for technical program pathways uh the stem core really was uh to address the initially to address the technologist um the technologist area that we need it they look sort of like scientists but obviously they don't go into the heavy calculus and whatnot but it is currently being used by um i don't know if i should say the word most but it's been being used by many of the universities to go into um to track for transfer programs you know just depends on your articulation agreements great um follow-up question for noel in terms of the cci program is there one application regardless of which laboratory you're interested in is it one application with a drop down or are the application processes different depending on which lab you are interested in partnering with replying to good question uh it's one application it's the application you would get it probably from any of the labs so you could go to dml.gov forward slash education click on the students and you would see the cci program and it will navigate you to that one application that's for the entire doe complex all the applications go to doe headquarters they then do a compliance review to ensure that um the application has all of the requirements and then based on the selection of the student whether they wanted to go to lawrence livermore or to lawrence berkeley or to pacific northwest uh or to bnl um they will be able to select those that particular lab as its first second choice and there is also an option for all labs uh the other but just to circle back to your question james i would also suggest that you have advocates in the three of us bet eric and i and please utilize us to connect with folks at the lab but use the website to understand which lab you'd like to get involved in and what area of research that you'd like to get involved in at that particular lab that's the place to start and you'd also see key people under those particular areas and and basically all of the labs are the same so you'd be able to if you're interested in energy storage you would see some key people and we can be your contact we would be a laser and we would be your advocate the networking capabilities please do not underestimate what we have just created here for you well i love that point and what i uh would recommend is people just go to energy.gov because it lists all of the 17 national labs and each one sort of has a fingerprint if you will in particular sciences um so yeah that's that's a great idea thank you that's great someone had asked about what website it is to put that in the chat box but is it just energy.gov and it may be in the toolkit as well or is it energy.gov you can start there what i would suggest is um labpartnering.org be my suggested first stop and then um after that energy.gov as well i would uh utilize lab partnering service um as the primary and that's lab partnering.org is that particular address but energy.gov has some great resources as well that's great and charlie i see charlie russomano just put their website in the chat box for folks who are interested in cutting and pasting that um another question in the chat box uh any words to share on the critical nature of building a diverse pipeline starting in high school to ensure purposeful post-secondary transitions of our community youth into stem programs at the community college and universities i had asked to respond to that because that's actually one of my passions um that uh that we have not done a good job of and we have to do a better job of that as a national labs at least i'll say lawrence livermore each lab is different and brookhaven may have a really strong high school outreach we do high school and k-12 outreach we do have some uh workshops in the summer that are one-week workshops on topics biology additive manufacturing and that's had tremendous impact um i guess what bothers me is the that i think the numbers are too small and i would like to see i would like to see some way to scale up the outreach to students and more than more than a one-time exposure and yet we you know we still have limitations on um getting work done right so um certainly i think that's a good conversation to have um and together to create maybe some models to to look at some successful models that we could do more um because it really that's where our equity is it's really it isn't equitable my kids got all kinds of tutoring and help in high school and elementary school that's not that doesn't equitable now all families have that and that's you know there's a lot of work that needs to be done so i'd just like to add at bnl in most of our sister labs we do have strong k-12 program we see close to 35 000 uh 12 kids throughout the year and we have a number of programs from exploratory programs where you can go in and work on on um virtually to one week programs during the summer and also we uh heavily focus on underrepresented minorities and underserved communities and one of the things that we have included as part of the k-12 programming is to include the high school students into the mission of bnl and doe science so we have something called a spark program where a high school teacher can bring a number of their students to the user facilities as a matter of fact we have high school students virtually working and doing research on covid right now and the interesting thing is one of our associate lab directors saw the poster and didn't even realize that the student who did that poster was a 11th grader so um we are really reaching back into the high schools and k-12 programming because one of the things that we have also recognized it's an opportunity for brandon for doe a lot of times you you talk to students and they know of nsf and they know of nasa and doe they think it's the department of education so we have to do a better um in branding the kind of science and multi multi-disciplinary approach to science and solving problems um compared to the rest of the federal agencies i appreciate that those responses and i i think you know eric one of your first slides on the middle skills in the in the different states in terms of the growth and demand of these of these uh careers and jobs and beth the work around stem i mean these are middle skills many of them are middle skill careers um that don't require four-year degrees and so i'm still also a slight barrier in optics in terms of the jobs that are available at doe and at the national laboratories do require four-year degrees primarily and that may be a hindrance or an urban legend i like to call it out in the community that may have to be more direct in addressing so um any other questions in the chat box james i'd like to just piggyback on what it is you just said because at bnl and again you know i'm just using bnl as an example but it's typical of every other lab within the doe complex we have approximately 2700 staff of which we probably have about a thousand scientists so we have another 1700 staff that are not scientists that you don't require um you know a phd so a bachelor's or an associate's degree as a matter of fact the electron iron collider which is the next big physics project in in the united states in order to have that running uh we would be probably looking at about 20 technicians just to ramp up for the need of the new set of jobs for the next 10 years so you're looking at 200 technicians just for one project in one lab so you magnify that and scale it up for all 17 labs we are suffering for technicians in in cryo cryotechnicians you know rf technicians we need these type of technicians and when you look at the qualifications sometimes they only ask for a high school diploma with experience because that's where we're looking for hands-on folks and i know the national science foundation a tea program they love to support community colleges but they also want these students to be technicians they don't want them to really be moving on and that's what we're looking for also good technicians that's a great reminder um any other questions i don't see any more in the chat box [Music] and if we don't it doesn't look like we do i would like to just thank the presenters once again i think this is really an eye opener for those who have participated today and as is in prior cases of organizations that individually work with us in a similar fashion to really peel back the conversation initially in this initial webinar we may come calling again with a subsequent uh opportunity with some additional you know specificity on one of your particular programs and dive a little deeper into that um but again i would like to thank you sincere appreciation for the wealth of information you provided today um and to everybody who joined again ecusector.com next week we'll post this recording the toolkit and contact information um eric noel and beth thank you so much again you've opened the door and now you're going to get a lot of emails starting next week so you know where they derived from this afternoon so um have a great friday have a great weekend and once again thank you to everybody for participating today thanks so much