Thank you for being a recommender for an applicant to the 2022 NSF COSMOS-NewLAW Research Experiences and Mentoring and Teaching (RET/REM) summer program. This is an ongoing professional development opportunity for middle and high school STEM teachers in New York City. Teachers will be involved in wireless network research alongside STEM researchers at New York University and Columbia University.

Please watch this video for more information: https://youtu.be/len8RijwS54 and check out the COSMOS-NewLAW RET program website: http://outreach.engineering.columbia.edu/cosmos

DATES         July 5 - July 22
LOCATION         NYU Tandon School of Engineering
SCHEDULE         9am - 5pm
STIPEND AMOUNT $4,000 (total for 3 weeks of summer work plus school year classroom activities)
ADDITIONAL                Teachers will receive a COSMOS Education Toolkit and CTLE credit
APPLICATION DUE: May 22, 2022 (rolling admissions afterward)
 
ABOUT THE RESEARCH:
COSMOS (“Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment”) is a project funded by the National Science Foundation with the aim to develop, deploy, and operate an advanced wireless research testbed in New York City, specifically in West Harlem. The COSMOS team consists of Rutgers, Columbia, NYU, NYC, Silicon Harlem, City College of New York (CCNY), University of Arizona, and IBM. Teachers will collaborate with researchers working on both the COSMOS project and a National Science Foundation EFRI NewLAW project that focuses on wireless communication. More info about COSMOS can be found here: https://cosmos-lab.org and https://cosmos-lab.org/outreach/. Learn more about Columbia Engineering Outreach: https://outreach.engineering.columbia.edu or NYU Tandon's Center for K12 STEM Education: https://engineering.nyu.edu/research-innovation/k12-stem-education.

By completing this form, you are helping to provide us with a better understanding of the applicant. If you have additional comments or an alternative letter of support, please send files directly via email to engineeringoutreach@columbia.edu, with the subject title "Letter of Recommendation for APPLICANT NAME."

Feel free to reach us at that email address if you have any questions or concerns. We appreciate your time in supporting our potential program participants.