Great Plains CyberTeam: A Regional Mentor Approach to Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Development and Advancement

The Great Plains (GP) CyberTeam is a distributed mentor-mentee workforce development program that works with institutions within the region that have growing Cyberinfrastructure needs. Participants work together to determine the institution’s research computing needs and work through the process from identification to implementation, developing best practices along the way, to enhance campus capabilities that enable research. Here, we discuss the CyberTeam Engagement process from the site identification, the pre-engagement questionnaire, site visit, and future implementation. Then outcomes of and lessons learned from the team’s inaugural engagement at the University of South Dakota are examined.