## ACM SIGHPC Education award

Info: https://sighpceducation.acm.org/events/award24_nominations/

## Letters of endorsement suggestions

- NL eScience Center, Mateusz (request sent 30.4, accepted)
- ENCCS, Thor (request sent 30.4, accepted)
- Paula TU Delft(request sent 3.5;)
- Local workshop hosts in Spain, xx
- Software Sustainability Institute, Neil

## To be filled for nomination form:

Nominee: Radovan Bast

### Brief description (maximum 500 words)

CodeRefinery acts as a hub for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) software practises. It currently focuses on the Nordic/Baltic countries, but aims to expand beyond this region. CodeRefinery aims to operate as a community project with support from academic organisations. The project started in 2016 and has developed a broad curriculum of openly maintained and reviewed lessons, has taught hundreds of participants across all academic disciplines, and has managed to build a community of instructors, learners, team leads (who help learners during exercises), expert helpers (who support team leads), local organizers and partner organisations.

The project idea/directive grew out of two courses given at PDC/KTH in 2014 and 2015, which focused on research software engineering tools and techniques.
The courses were popular and it was clear that the demand is not limited to the Stockholm region and we approached NeIC to bring this project to a Nordic level, both to have more
impact, but also to connect instructors across Nordic borders.
The first CodeRefinery workshop was given late 2016 and since then the lesson material has evolved a lot and we have delivered many more workshops, both in-person and online.

The objectives of the CodeRefinery project are:
• Organize and deliver workshops and events
• Develop and maintain a lesson portfolio
• Build a community and network of instructors and volunteer helpers
• Operate a Nordic GitLab service
• Support the community of Nordic research software engineers

> about 250 words until here (texts from phase 2 report)

### How does the work provide innovative training and education materials for computational science, data-enabled, or HPC education?

- open, collaborative materials, self-learning ready
- no one alone, different roles (instructor, host, hackmd, …)
- exercise/hands-on focus
- clearly defining learning outcomes
- asking for feedback, encouraging feedback
- manuals
- thoughtful demos and screensharing setup
- public lesson templates
- public lesson review on github
- train the trainer

### Describe any available metrics of the impacts of the project/program success

https://coderefinery.org/about/impact/
https://coderefinery.org/about/statistics/
Feedback channel

### How has the program enhanced the ability to engage, serve, and retain a diverse community of participants?

- bi-yearly workshop, open and free for all
- Bring your own classroom
- Zulip chat community
- Bring your own code sessions
- RSHour
- https://zenodo.org/communities/coderefinery/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

### Describe the extent to which the work has received widespread adoption of their approach and/or materials by and/or participation other groups/organizations.

https://coderefinery.org/about/reports/
- NL eScience center course
- ENCCS train the trainer

### Presentations and Publications associated with the program

https://coderefinery.org/about/reports/
https://coderefinery.org/about/presentations/

### Provide a list of project presentations and publications if any