The Carpentries (comprised of Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry) has a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to anyone who creates, manages, or uses data.

The Smithsonian Institution has been a member organization of the Carpentries since 2017. Since joining, more than 500 Smithsonian researchers and other staff have taken at least one Carpentries course.  

We are looking for Smithsonian staff and fellows to be trained to join our team of instructors. No prior teaching experience is necessary, but we suggest experience with using one or more of the following: spreadsheets, OpenRefine, Python, R, SQL, Unix, or GitHub.

The Smithsonian Carpentries Instructor Team is a pan-institutional group of Smithsonian staff and fellows who work with data and computational tools on a regular basis, and are passionate about building a community of data practitioners at the Smithsonian. You can learn more about us at https://datascience.si.edu/carpentries 

All instructors attend a 4-half-day training workshop focused on using evidence-based techniques for teaching computational skills.

We will be accepting instructors on a rolling basis, so please email si-datascience@si.edu if you do not get a response within a day or 2.