PIs Weems, Thota, and Sussman conducted a 4.5 day training workshop at UMass, focusing on unplugged activities and programming topics that can be introduced in early Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses.  The workshop had 15 participants from a diverse set of institutions, including MSIs, HBCUs, and small and large universities/colleges. Twenty-five applications were received, out of which seventeen were selected after a review by the PIs, based on whether the applicants were teaching courses relevant to the training, and expressed goals that aligned with the content of the workshop (introducing PDC concepts in early undergraduate courses). Two of the selected instructors subsequently withdrew due to conflicts that arose after their selection. 

Afternoon sessions, presented by PIs Weems and Sussman, focused on concurrency and parallelism topics that include Java UI event handling (thread parallelism), data parallelism (C/C++ threads and OpenMP), and message passing (MPI).  Morning sessions, led by PI Thota, targeted education research methodology to enable participants to develop research studies related to their course updates on PDC topics that can be published at CS education venues (including the EduPar and EduHPC workshops organized as part of this project).  There were also afternoon sessions conducted by the Development Teams at Knox and TTU to demonstrate how they have incorporated event handling, thread parallelism, data parallelism, and distributed data topics and assignments into their CS1 and CS2 courses. 

The list of participants appears below. Each received a $3K stipend.

	First name	Last name	City	State
1	Richard	Weiss	Olympia	WA
2	Marcelo	Guerra Hahn	Kirkland	WA
3	Phillip	Kirlin	Memphis	TN
4	Ross	Sowell	Sewanee	TN
5	Susan	Hammond	Brentwood	TN
6	David	Liu	Fort Wayne	IN
7	Md Maruf	Ahamed	Ames	IA
8	Nathan	Bean	Manhattan	KS
9	Lisa	Lacher	Helotes	TX
10	Karen	Works	Panama City	FL
11	Prince Waqas	Khan	Union	NJ
12	Ahmet	Sonmez	Williamsburg	VA
13	Uma	Chinta	Lubbock	TX
14	Whitney	Nelson	Atlanta	GA
15	Nannan (Nancy)	He	Mankato	MN