1 - 15 July, 2017: Learner Impact, Instructor Training, Community Building, Author Information.

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Highlights

• Our pre- and post-workshop surveys show that the Carpentries have a significant impact on the learners.
• We are working to better the instructor training material to ensure we have a good up to date curriculum.
• You do not have to be an expert to be a good instructor.

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General

• You do not need to be an expert to be a workshop helper.

• We do a lot to build the community within the Carpentries.

• NASA DEVELOP hosted two concurrent workshops and it went very well.

• If you have contributed to any of our lessons in the past please take a few minutes to give us some basic information.

• 22 workshops were run over the past 30 days. For more information about past workshops, please visit our website.

• Upcoming Workhshops:

  • July
  • University of Mauritius, Imperial College London, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University College London, McMaster University, Noble Research Institute.
  • August
  • University of Southampton, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Space Telescope Science Institute, University of Sheffield, Washington State University, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University.
  • September
  • University of Würzburg, Ghent University, Oregon State University/CGRB, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.