Category Archives: Engagement & Outreach

Overview RENCI encourages North Carolina middle school and high school students to pursue research in the areas of engineering and computing through its sponsorship of the Innovation and Technology Award for North Carolina Science and Engineering Regional Fairs.The award recognizes students whose projects demonstrate high standards in technology and/or engineering, giving special consideration to projects […]

Overview RENCI, in collaboration with Ted Zoller, assistant professor, at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC, worked to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the underlying economic activities that lead to the development of technopoles – a term used to describe regions and economic development activities in those regions that favor the development of entrepreneurial […]

Overview Carolina Launch Pad, a pre-commercial business accelerator, is aimed at aspiring IT entrepreneurs who are part of the University of North Carolina community (faculty, staff and students) and who have not yet developed their business ideas into funded start-ups. Launch Pad is intended to work with up to five entrepreneurs each year beginning in […]

Overview The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a video archive of testimonials from Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators. An important historical resource, the archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies collected in 32 languages and from 56 countries by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. In 2006, RENCI took the lead in […]

Overview The Renaissance Bistro is an informational lecture series designed to introduce RENCI to the general public and spotlight RENCI’s project areas and experimental research. Topics include discussions about high performance computing, disaster research, economic development, biological sciences, social sciences and the humanities. The events are free, lunch is served on a first-come first-served basis, […]

Overview NC-FIRST for Teachers was a project designed to help North Carolina Earth and environmental science teachers and seventh grade science teachers meet state requirements to teach meteorology and weather and address the relevance of technology in science. The project’s activities were completed in 2009. Through NC-FIRST for Teachers, RENCI education and outreach experts provided […]

Overview Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) builds human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastructure (CI). It also educates and trains a diverse group of people in all stages of life—from K-12 to professional practice—to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders. Strategies designed to meet these goals […]

Overview The DESTINY (Delivering Edge-Cutting Science Technology and Internet Across North Carolina for Years to Come) Traveling Science Learning Program is sponsored by the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that serves pre-college teachers and students across North Carolina. The module focuses on the fundamental concepts of evolutionary […]

Program Description The RENCI Summer Institute engages students in hands-on learning activities, career exploration and networking with science professionals, and skill building in advanced computing technologies. Students work together with scientists, researchers, engineers and developers to explore concepts in computer science, biology, chemistry, electronics and robotics.

An Introduction to Bold Thinking and Innovation The RENCI Distinguished Lecture Series brings to North Carolina and the Triangle area speakers who personify the renaissance ideal: people who take original approaches; who solve problems by thinking of bold and creative solutions; who are unafraid to step outside their comfort zone. RENCI Distinguished Lecturers have earned […]