2024 C-GCA Application

The Application Process

Welcome to the application for CMMI's Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (C-GCA). C-GCA’s goal is to foster increased capacity in the NSF merit review system, the world’s gold standard of peer review. Participants commit to a 12-week intensive program to explore the dynamics, potentialities, and vulnerabilities of peer review discussions and develop skills to engage conflict constructively in order to elevate high quality innovative proposals. By completing this survey, you are applying to be considered for the 2024 cohort.

C-GCA is available to members of NSF’s Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation community. In short, this includes anyone who has or could submit a grant proposal to this division of the Engineering directorate as well as anyone with the relevant expertise to serve on a funding panel in this division. Past experience serving on a CMMI panel is not required.

Applications will be accepted through March 31, 2024 and reviewed in early April. Invitations will be sent to the selected cohort in mid-April. We encourage all applicants to reserve the fall program dates now to ensure availability if you are selected (here's an ics file). Inquiries after March 31st and applicants not invited into the 2024 cohort will be added to a mailing list for future C-GCA programs.

C-GCA is designed and implemented by Kardia Group LLC. Kardia Group is conducting this application process in collaboration with CMMI leadership.

This application has five pages and will take 15-20 minutes to complete. You will be able to edit your answers on any page until you complete your application by clicking "Done" on the final page. Only completed applications will be considered for the 2024 cohort.

If you have any questions about the application process, please email us at inquiries@gamechangeracademies.com.

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* 1. Which CMMI areas are your strongest affiliation? (check up to 3) (CMMI's Game Changer Academies is only available to members of the CMMI community. If you are interested in this program but are not a member of CMMI, please email us at inquiries@gamechangeracademies.com)

AM - Advanced Manufacturing

BMMB - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

CIS - Civil Infrastructure Systems

DCSD - Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics

ECI - Engineering for Civil Infrastructure

EDSE - Engineering Design and Systems Engineering

EEC - Engineering Education and Centers

HDBE - Humans, Disasters and the Built Environment

M3X - Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus

MOMS - Mechanics of Materials and Structures

MSI - Manufacturing Systems Integration

OE - Operations Engineering

Robotics - Fundamental Research in Robotics

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* 2. Your Name

First Name

Last Name

Preferred Name

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* 3. Email

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* 4. Phone

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* 5. What is your previous experience with panel reviews? (check all that apply)

I have been a panel reviewer within the CMMI division.

I have been a panel reviewer within other NSF programs.

I have been a panel reviewer for funding programs other than NSF.

I have submitted proposals for panel review by an NSF program.

None of the above

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* 6. How many times have you served on an NSF review panel?

2-5

6 or more

Use of Personal Information & Application Responses

All application responses provided by you will be retained by Kardia Group LLC. These data will not be displayed in personally identifiable form in any public forum, will not be linked to any National Science Foundation (NSF) records, databases, or documents related to proposals or awards, and will have no bearing on your eligibility for future NSF funding.

Your contact information (“contacts”) will be shared among Kardia Group LLC staff and with our contractors, NSF, and other affiliates as needed to administer the Game Changer Academies program and achieve the goals of CMMI. We may use contacts to notify individuals of future Game Changer Academies activities via C-GCA’s email distribution list; you may remove yourself from such notifications by unsubscribing. We will not sell or share contacts with any other entities.

Summary data from cohort application responses will be used to administer the program, for program improvement, and for program cohort data feedback.

Anonymized excerpts from application responses may be used in Game Changer Academies materials including but not limited to reports, publications, curricular materials, and outreach. If you do not want your anonymized excerpts from your responses used in this way, you will be able to opt out later in the application. You can also opt-out by emailing inquiries@gamechangeracademies.com.

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