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-Scientific writing skills are key and applicable to any professional sector proteges enter into after leaving the program

-Learn how to write a proposal for research topics for fellowships. This will transfer to writing proposals in the future for grant funding or any endeavor for project work.

-Super skills include:

Writing a peer-reviewed paper

Writing an abstract on the same work in different ways to distinct audiences, e.g., conferences or groups to present the work (oral presentation versus a conference paper)

-Telling the story: this would begin has having an overall vision of what the need and scope of what is being achieved/studied, how to break it down to different audiences, and having the skill to place the correct amount of detail on the storyline on the presentation/paper so the work reaches a diverse audience

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Importance of fundamentals:

Subject matter expertise

Basic coding

Writing Expertise

Oral presentations

Media training

Active listening

Interpersonal Skills

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NSF SOARS supports Jupiter by accident, trained for something else but have basic skills to work with us.

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Use NSF SOARS for their own DEI skills and mentor training

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SOARS creates a pipeline to research while helping students explore other pathways to science. 

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SOARS creates a pipeline to research while helping students explore other pathways to science. 

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Empower students to  change the system that excluded them in the first place. 

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Empower students to  change the system that excluded them in the first place. 

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Academic Sector

A program like SOARS affords students the opportunity to be exposed to careers they may not be familiar with, provides the opportunity for students to interact with mentors in the field, and allows students to have practical and relevant experiential trainings that can lead to relevant workforce opportunities and graduate school opportunities.

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NSF SOARS Support needs

Provides mechanism/opportunity that UG cannot - the holistic learning and engagement opportunity. The research projects are great - field projects, etc.

The PI has to do everything at the university, whereas, NSF SOARS can offer - mentoring, organized, constructive way, and come back and go on. Engages, empowers, and incentivizes the whole flow process into an advanced degree.

From a predominantly White discipline, SOARS was enticing.

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Communication skills: technical writing, writing memos, oral communication (presenting at workshops and annual conferences)

Relationship building - public/private partnerships

Foundational science and connecting to the public on why this matters (science serving society)

Basic science, operations, applied science

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Learn how to write a proposal, 3 pages of content that lays out your scope, team, what you will do and who it will benefit.

3rd or 4th year protege, design your research, write a proposal to design your work

writing an abstract - necessary for a conference, a talk, etc

policy space - write them an email and tell them what is pertinent in 3-4 sentences

soft skill - telling the story, not losing sight of that (don't get too drawn into the science when you're talking about it with others)

How do you create a budget? A timeline? Learn how to fund your work, how to develop the right team to fit that budget and accomplish the work you want to do.

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Doing a lit review is like distilling a lot of information from a lot of sources into one place. Then take a research paper and work on a policy memo, then on a newspaper article for your hometown paper (break down the jargon). Having formal and informal writing skills are critical skills. Congressional visit days helped get into AMS Policy Colloquium. Review proposals to know what a good proposal is. Budgets are so critical - start small, but money makes the world go around, and if you know how to develop a budget and defend it, you can move up into positions of leadership.

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-How to create a concise but impactful power point presentation that engages the audience and allows for 2-way conversation

-How to create a budget for a project, whether they are in research/private industry/government, etc.

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Creative problem solving - proven they can solve various different problems not just one in a research line

Computationally: python, github, SME-AI, applied some sort of machine learning/AI to a problem they were trying to solve.

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- SOARS shows students career pathway they may not have thought of

- Professor/Research Scientists: what they think research is vs. what is actually is

- Challenge: what does a professor or research scientist look like?

- Give them the “tools” (self-confidence, sense of belonging/community) to motivate them to change the system & academic culture from within

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Understand the problem from the customer perspective - customer centric part of view. How to apply my science to solve the customer challenges?

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Difference between community and customer, one feels the impact the other pays for it.

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Currently NSF SOARS doesn't support these needs at this time. Latent overlaps - if you can write a peer reviewed paper you can write a proposal or abstract. So this is an area of growth for the program. To be an AMS policy fellow, contractor or govt employee, there are skills that could be developed. Take a 200 page scientific paper and rewrite it as a 20 page paper for congress. Writing for a lay audience. Writing so your grandmother can understand the information.

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How can a person take the science and make a product out of it? How to create a product that the customer actually use and can solve a problem with it? Understand the science side and product management/business side of things.

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Self-awareness/self-discovery to understand what skills they are passionate about and want to pursue. Understand your interests but not might not be a specific topic. Example work in this area solving these kind of problems but no specific thing. Need to know what skills you actually obtain and how to share those skills.

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Business management/certifications - could be unnecessary for early on in their career because would they have to appreciate it if they don't have lived experiences.

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Worried about adding too much on for NSF SOARS, could lose the importance of the fundamentals NSF SOARS teaches. However, exposure is good so engaging in programs and sitting in those places will get some experiences.

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No one size fits all to private industry. There are various company stages, how they are structured, business model. Take caution to building a one-size fits all, except for fundamentals. Do have to open doors.

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Look for these kind of REUs but not necessarily have research experience, but mentorship and community as well as networking.

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Networking - being able to bring them at least up to the level of the rest of the world is extremely helpful.

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Skills to develop

Education framing, "Soft-skills", résumé writing - federal, conferences - networking, etc

In atmos science - computational dynamics, core and foundational dynamics - through minors or 2nd degree programs - coding, programming, exposure to machine learning, statistical analyses,

broad and deep knowledge

5 years is probably more thorough - with 2-3 minors

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- Likely same “power”skills as private sector, but also:

- Leading the charge with change (software, branching out and championing internal charges e.g., DEI)

- Conflict management

- Management skills

- Teaching? “Best practices” and modern approaches to make their teaching more effective

- Mentoring

- Writing proposals

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Depends on where you are in your career - you can show PhD experience without a PhD but depends on how you articulate that. PhD provides how to see where you fit in the field.

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Masters or higher - some bachelors but will have to go back and get higher education degree.

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However, PhD can impact you negatively because a PhD can narrow you so much that you can't expand the box.

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For professional growth - having a masters, PhD can help with growing within a company.

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What about certifications? AWS has some preferences, however, overall not as important. We have to retrain them anyway.

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Cloud computing and data analysis/statistics understanding will be helpful

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USFS fire weather and atmospheric science - most people need a phd to lead at the lab level, but a software engineer in this group would need a bachelors, support scientists need masters

USA Jobs set requirements for positions

Time is an important variable - how much time have you invested in this one area and is there a skill you can bring to the table that isn't already replicated there. PhD isn't an end all/be all. Value in a PhD, but what you're gaining during that is time to grow certain skills. Masters + years can be plenty.

Some of the govt leadership jobs like policy fellowships require a PhD

People who have PhDs have a certain way of tackling a problem, others have a different/unique way to tackle a problem (hands-on fresh perspective from working in an industry, like hydroelectric power) - need both perspectives.

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Credentials to accelerate pathways

technical skills - Python, GIS, R, Linux, coding

interpersonal skills, interdisciplinary approach - physical science with social science.

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Proteges need to meet people who work in government, including people in Congress and the Senate.

USA Jobs resume is so different than a CV. This could be a helpful exercise.

You have to max out on all of the requirements - if they ask for 3-5 years you need to have 5 years to get picked up by the algorithm.

Interviewing skills - this is a different animal! Gave a real world problem, if you have this issue and you're talking to a plant engineer, how would you advise them to address this problem? Not asking about applied. Need to think on your feet, which is learned by doing. Having this will never harm them even if they want to go a different route. Aaron and Alisha could do a USA Jobs resume + interview workshop :)

How to ask the right questions. Some of the most intelligent speakers and leaders in meetings don't dominate, but ask the right questions that take the conversations in the direction you need the group to go. Graduate school is a lot of passive learning. Need to learn how to create an atmosphere where people can learn and grow. Critical thinking aspect, how are we honing in, how can we teach to be a critical thinker and look at policy/bill (could be contrary to your personal beliefs), then you have to defend it.

Who will you give $200,000 to, then need to justify it.

Summary: 1) Develop writing and communication skills that are concise and can be understood by a general audience. 2) Meeting people from gov't positions, learn how they got there and what they like about it. 3) What is it like to work in this space (resume, mock interview, proposal, budget)

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Working with different data/file types

Knowing different coding/data processing

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Students need to know how to use Excel - one of the most widely used software packages

Coding skills - R, Python

Out of academia - need PPT, Excel, other coding?

Sankey diagram is widely used - take coding skills and create a visual way to communicate

Classes on visual analytics - people want better than bar graphs and pie charts now

GIS is very useful

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Global climate models - how to access and collect/download data

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Develop an interdisciplinary course with minimal prereqs that will attract students from different disciplines to engage in a project - like a wicked problem, and work on transdisciplinary solutions.

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Academic Sector -

Interdisciplinary Skills - ability to work/collaborate with teams from various disciplines.

Project Management Skills - understanding the components and flow of a project from start to finish.