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 <span style="font-size: 2.6rem;">An education and training hub for the geoscientific Python community</span>
 
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-        Project Pythia is hosting a Cookbook Cook-Off June 20-23, 2023.<br>
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 [Project Pythia](about) is the education working group for [Pangeo](https://pangeo.io)
 and is an educational resource for the entire geoscience community.
 Together these initiatives are helping geoscientists make sense of huge volumes of