What does a Campus Champion do A Campus

What does a Campus Champion do? A Campus Champion: • participates in information sharing sessions (e. g. monthly calls and email list) • peer mentors with other Champions to learn how to be more effective in your research support role • provides information about national Cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources to researchers, educators and scholars at their local institution • assists their local institution's users to quickly get start-up allocations of computing time on national CI resources • serve as an ombudsperson, on behalf of their local institution's users of national CI resources, to capture information on problems and challenges that need to be addressed by the resource owners • hosts information sessions and training workshops for their local institution's researchers, educators, students, scholars and administrators about institutional, national and other CI resources and services • participates in some or all of the Campus, Regional, Domain, and Student Champion activities • submits brief activity reports regularly • participates in education, training and professional development opportunities at the institutional, regional and national level to improve the champion(s)' ability to provide these capabilities, including relevant national conferences, (e. g. annual SC supercomputing conference and the PEARC conference)