2026

Working effectively in teams is an essential professional skill. Effective teamwork can allow a group of interdisciplinary professionals to capitalize on the diversity of their knowledge, expertise, and experience to come up with innovative solutions for complex problems. However, teamwork also comes with inherent challenges, including misunderstandings, miscommunication, and conflicts. This interactive workshop, led by Erika Lieu and McKenna Sperry, aims to provide foundational skills to support effective teamwork, particularly for participants who are new to working in teams.

Chapel is a modern programming language designed for both shared and distributed memory systems, offering high-level, easy-to-use abstractions for task and data parallelism. This session will introduce you to chapel and show you how to leverage the power of parallel computing.

In these sessions you will be introduced to agentic coding. This session builds on material from session 1 and introduces workflows for developing applications with agentic AI.

In these sessions you will be introduced to agentic coding. This session will look at hands-on experience with AI assisted computer vision using underwater imagary from the FathomNet database.

In these sessions you will be introduced to agentic coding. This first session will cover motivations, integrations with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and AI agents).

Git is a powerful version control system allowing you to record, access, and restore the history of projects. In this session we will explore the use of git to provide efficient working practices for complex technical projects as well as it’s use in collaborating with others.

This session will look at how to craft an effective Resume to secure the position you want.