Submit Focus Group Report

The old submission form is no longer monitored. FG reports should be emailed to the FG's RAC: GEM Organization and People

Purpose: Focus Group Reports are required documentation that help NSF assess the progress of the GEM program. Think of them like annual reports you provide for your grants—they are a form of oversight. Secondly, the reports are a way for the GEM community to know what is going on in your sessions in case they couldn’t attend. It’s a form of advertisement to demonstrate to the community what awesome science is happening!

Deadline: The reports must be submitted within 6 weeks of the summer GEM Workshop to your FG’s primary RAC to be compiled in the GEMStone Newsletter. (Please send a Word document, Google doc, or other text document instead of or in addition to a PDF - this makes it much easier to compile in the full newsletter.)

Final Report: After a FG concludes, it must also submit a Final Report which summarizes the FG activities throughout its tenure.

Information that reports should include:

1. Required Information:
a. Focus Group name
b. Focus Group Leader names
c. Summary of December Mini-GEM activities
d. Summary of Summer GEM Workshop activities
e. Include estimate of the attendance number for your sessions
f. Assessment on progress towards meeting FG goals (may be stated within the summary of activities)

2. Highly Encouraged Information:

a. A list of presenters and titles (if applicable). A couple sentence summaries could be included—One practice used by FG leaders in the past was to email presenters to ask that they provide the couple sentence summary. That takes a lot of the burden off your own shoulders!
b. The means/tools employed to engage the community in an effort to maintain interactive workshop style sessions
c. Efforts to address diversity and inclusion in the research area
d. Significant Publications: List publications that acknowledge the FG, were presented during a session, etc. (Suggest emailing participants to submit their paper citations to you.)
e. Plans moving forward

You may of course include anything else not listed here.