The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) conference is held annually. Each year is dedicated to a theme of this significant National Science Foundation investment in supporting our nation's computational science education and research. The trailer here shows the success of the diversity efforts led by Dr. Richard Tapia and the improvscience interactive challenge.

The Scholars are women, historically excluded racial minorities and people with disabilities-who are majoring in computer science and computing intensive fields. The students work with XSEDE and meet with the Minority Faculty Council of which Dr. Holmes was a member.

The improvscience collaboration and creativity workshop, identified as the "Interactive Challenge" helped participants: get to know one another, take intellectual risks and be creative with fellow future scientists. You can see this environment is diverse, engaged and working to advance in high performance computing.