Data Ambassador Council
Our Data Ambassador Council (DAC), made up of a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students, is a focal point of student input and engagement at CAIDS. As advocates for accessible data practices, DAC members communicate CAIDS initiatives to the student body at Tulane and act as a student-led focus group that explores data initiatives to ensure that CAIDS data programming supports the needs of Tulane students.
Program Objectives:
- Attend events, collect information, and provide feedback about the data curriculum and programming needs of Tulane's undergraduate and graduate students.
- Works collaboratively as a focus group to brainstorm and solve problems around data programming.
- Produces science communication products that share information across campus about CAIDS student programming and curriculum.
- Support data literacy educational programming by engaging in data-related community events through attendance, product judging, K-12 mentorship, and event planning.
Project Types:
Students will discover data skills relating to:
Designing interactive science communication campaigns about data skills for Tulane students using data visualizations, graphic design, videos, and social media content.
Collect data about data initiatives and data needs on campus by developing and administering surveys and polls, and serving as a focus group.
Sharing information about data courses, initiatives, data themes, and the achievements of the CAIDS community with Tulane students by networking at events, tabling day,s and presentations, and developing a student newsletter, social media, swag, and posters.
STEM Outreach Data Interns
Throughout the academic year, our STEM Outreach Data Interns attend, work at, and put on data-related educational outreach events such as K-12 science fairs, STEM workshops, ethics bowls, and CAIDS annual events such as the CAIDS Datathon and Love Data Week. They also host the annual CAIDS datathon in the Spring.
