I2 Online: Come Play at the NET+ Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Summer Camp 2021

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By Bob Flynn, Internet2 Program Manager

Register for this virtual series to learn how the Internet2 community is leveraging NET+ GCP in unique and innovative ways.

Join us this summer for a special “summer camp” series dedicated to the NET+ Google Cloud Platform, where we will showcase members of the Internet2 NET+ GCP community who are leveraging the platform to do some pretty amazing things. 

Free your inner child and frolic in the sun during NET+ GCP Summer Camp 2021. There might even be an opportunity to play a game of capture the flag. But alas, it won’t be all fun and games, we’ll sneak in a little learning, too:

• Why the NET+ GCP program is so much more than just the best higher ed GCP contract
• How to leverage Google resources to teach the cloud (skills) and to teach a wide range of other disciplines using the cloud
• How researchers are accelerating life-saving and life-changing work with the power of GCP tools
• How schools are building GCP into the fabric of their central computing infrastructure

Sessions

Camp will be in session with the following counselors to guide your way:

• June 23 at 2 p.m. ET: Teach the Cloud, Teach Using the Cloud
  • Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University
  • Geraldine Van der Auwera, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Alan Walsh, Indiana University
• July 21 at 2 p.m. ET: The Power to Change Lives
  • Gilad Evrony, New York University, Grossman School of Medicine
  • Phillip Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• July 28 at 2 p.m. ET: Running the University on Cloud Power
  • Maneesha Aggarwal, Columbia University
  • John Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis
  • David Reid, University of Missouri

Special thanks to Carahsoft for sponsoring the NET+ GCP Summer Camp Series.