Nitin Sukhija PhD Student Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) Mississippi State University

Assisting Campus champion to arrange learning sessions/ workshops to train and support students, researchers, faculty and educators about XSEDE usage. Start research groups to increase involvement of students from multidisciplinary fields and underrepresented groups. Have presenters to give talks on success stories which involve XSEDE usage to raise awareness. Start -groups, group chats or help-desks which can be volunteered by student campus champions to provide local as well as offline users, software tools, support and recommendations, assisting users to engage XSEDE resources. Start a Student online forum which can be developed using Web 2.0 that is Wiki for all users in which users can edit or add information regarding usage of XSEDE in different domains anytime via internet.

Exploration of new topics can be triggered, and students can get assistance from more mentors, which will lead to valuable contribution to campus bridging program of XSEDE. Collaborative research potential can be maximized by including faculty, staff and students from diverse environments, fostering increased use of XSEDE, and resulting in more journal papers, knowledge and Cooperative research grants. Conduct activities which may include talent presentations online, and also recreational activities. Develop webpage for student campus involvement in addition to campus champion webpage, on local campus website which will display all news, events and information pertaining to XSEDE. Develop a Metric to evaluate the effectiveness of Student champion program