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### What: Workshop to develop best practices in sports analytics education

### When: January 29 & 30, 2027

### Where: Charlotte, NC on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

### Who: Invited Experts in sports analytics, statistics and data science education 


This SCORE Network workshop will generate guidelines/best practices for educational training in sports analytics and for building robust pipelines between academia and industry.  The workshop will engage leading experts from industry and academia to draft national guidelines around sports analytics in higher education. The in-person event, from Friday midday to Saturday midday, will be held in Charlotte, NC on the campus of UNC Charlotte.  With the rapid growth of this dynamic field and with new academic programs being developed, this is an auspicious time for this workshop.  

### Housing: Information will be available soon.

## Tentative Schedule

Pre-Workshop materials and readings for attendees

### Friday January 29, 2027

	

Opening:

11:30a:  Motivation, Framing of the Day, Goals, etc

Noon :  SCORE Project Update:  Nick, Ivan, Rochelle  
(interactive, not having talks for 90 min)
Modules 
lessons learned 
best practices, 
Assessment of building the network (Rochelle, Nick)
Data sets, repos
Include some exploration of site/repo 
		Discussion of what else needs to be in module repository
		
12:30p - Working Lunch

1:00p Background on Sports Analytics for Education - what’s going on in sports analytics education (large national initiative/projects):  	

Overview
Short talks by leading educators with three slides each 
What does your academic program look like?
What does your extracurriculars look like?
What is unique about your program?
Panel on best practices, what is working, what is not

3:00p    SCORE Network Industry panel 
	Bachelor’s vs master’s - how do you decide? Why?
	Sports expertise vs technical expertise
	AI
	Technical classes vs project/communication classes
	What is academia doing wrong?  Nothing, we’re perfect

3:45p Coffee Break

4:15p - Frame next exercise; put people in groups/tables

4:30p
	Group assigned Table discussion on what does a good major/program look like

5:30p Report out to group and leadership committee

6:30p Dinner
 
Working dinner: Leadership group is collating, summarizing the notes and framing the next day
	This includes table/section leaders

Possible evening poster session with students (with wine/beer) about experience 

### Saturday January 29, 2027

8:00a Coffee/breakfast
8:30a Framing the day with overview of the material from the day before; set-up the deeper dive 
	
Specifics of the classroom
   Teaching report: Ron, Amanda, Scott
   Report from Tim Chartier and Felesia Stukes (https://sites.google.com/view/sportsanalyticscurriculum/schedule)
   SCORE Network 
   Connect with industry
   Review process, etc (portfolio for tenure)
   What’s next  (research on the review process for educational materials)
   Include some exploration of site/repo 

10:00a Break

10:30a Work period update from discussions from previous day
   Working in groups (nice to have an industry person in each group)
	Need to develop set of best practices/topics for GAISE like areas

Noon - Depart

1:00p Section Leaders Discussion

4:00p Senior Leaders Depart

### Post conference

Conference summaries posted and available for comment by April 1, 2027.

Planned presentation/workshop and opportunity for feedback at USCOTS, June 2027

Planned presentation  and opportunity for feedback at JSM, August 2027

Planned final presentation at Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference, fall 2027