7:00 – 8:00

·     Continental breakfast.

8:00 – 10:00

·     Presentation by Dr. George Hazelrigg (NSF Program director) on NSF CAREER proposal Guidelines

·     Questions and answers

10:00 – 10:30

·     Break

10:30 – 11:45

·     Two to four recent CAREER awardees present their stories and share their experiences

·     Questions and answers

12:00 – 13:00

·     Working lunch. Participants can have interactions with NSF program directors and other participants, asking more questions, sharing what they have learned, etc.

13:00 – 15:00

·     Dr. Hazelrigg describes procedures for a typical CAREER proposal panel meeting

·     Dividing into groups (with about 10 participants in each group) for mock panel review, every panel will be led by an NSF program director.  (About 5 proposals will be sent to workshop participants four weeks before the workshop.)

·     In groups, brainstorm a list of Dos and Don’ts for writing successful CAREER proposals

15:00 – 15:30

·     Break

15:30 – 16:00

·     Share mock panel review results from each group

·     Share the lists of Dos and Don’ts from each group

·     Workshop evaluations

16:00

·     Adjournment