COSM Education and Outreach:COSM Education and Outreach: Where We Are NowWhere We Are Now
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Where We’ve BeenWhere We’ve Been
QuarkNet Young DoctorsSupport/incubation
of E&O effortsOutreach to Zambia
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•PI support: Keith BakerKen McFarlane
•Staff support: Ken Cecire
•Outreach:Univ of Puerto Rico BNL/MARIACHI
•Advocacy:rural centersunderserved centers
Support for the National QuarkNet Program
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The Hampton University QuarkNet Center
•Teachers from across the Commonwealth: FairfaxRichmondNorthern NeckHampton Roads
•Meetings at: Hampton UniversityScience Museum of Va (Richmond)Local Schools
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The Hampton University QuarkNet Center
•Continuing Initiatives: Assist JLab TAPS programAssist HU Young Doctors programCosmic Ray Detector
•New Initiatives: MARIACHI (BNL)Collaboration with UMd
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Sample fromSample from COSM Summer 2005 Activities COSM Summer 2005 Activities Information and Preference FormInformation and Preference Form::
Which of the activities below are you interested in Which of the activities below are you interested in participating in? Please rank-order …participating in? Please rank-order …
In Virginia Outside Virginia
____help with HU Young Doctors program (middle school students)
____help with JLab TAPS program (middle school teachers)
____2-3 day QuarkNet/COSM workshop at HU
____create MARIACHI-type air shower array
____COSM-Zambia (2 weeks in July)
____Physics Emasondosondo (1 week in NY, 3 weeks in South Africa)
____QuarkNet Institute (1 week at Fermilab at the end of June)
____MARIACHI workshop at BNL (July 25-29)
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Hampton University Hampton University Young Doctors Summer Science CampYoung Doctors Summer Science Camp
•Middle school summer day camp in science
•COSM teachers have participated since summer 2003
•Offer hands-on activities:
Physics of sports
Physics of toys
Fluid dynamics
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Jefferson Lab Teacher Academy in Jefferson Lab Teacher Academy in Physical Science (TAPS)Physical Science (TAPS)
•Program for Middle School science teachers
•JLab Education Office
•Presentations by COSM teachers and HU students
•Topics include:
sports physics
radioactive decay
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Spinning Education, Outreach, and Research Spinning Education, Outreach, and Research TogetherTogether
Support for:
•Student workshop at Univ of Puerto Rico
•QuarkNet reunions:
SpacePart04 (12/04)
Brookhaven (1/05)
•Clustering of UMd, BNL, Hampton QuarkNet centers
•New MARIACHI initiative
•PFC collaboration in E&O
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DisseminationDissemination•Physics Today article, September 2004
•AAPT Summer 2004 Meeting: Physics Education in Africa sessions
•AAPT Winter 2006 Meeting: follow-on session
•NSBP: video preview
•Students…
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PFCs Collaborate!PFCs Collaborate!
Share ideas and experience Professional growth Dissemination
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Where We’re HeadedWhere We’re Headed•Increased involvement with Africa
•New proposals
•New collaboration
•More hard science
•Benefit rebound to Virginia and US
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In one of my first workshops with my Zambian colleagues, a teacher said, “Our students have too little opportunity and yours have too much.” I’m still thinking about the implications of that remark.
-- Charles Tisdale, The Bolles School, Florida (formerly of Princess Anne High School, Virginia)
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Outreach to Africa: New Twists, Outreach to Africa: New Twists, New GrowthNew Growth
•Zambia expedition 2004:
visit Columbia group in SA
increase workshops to 3 days
documentary film
•Developments 2005:
MARIACHI/SHARE
involvement in SA
student summer in Zambia
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Seeing how my Zambian peers present the concepts without technology has helped me to see how I can use a mix of low technology and high technology labs to reach the students.
-- Lewis Fowler, Centreville High School
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•Workshops 3 days
more topical
foundational material
student talks
more Zambian
•Student workshops (1/2 day)
•2005: stayovers in Lusaka and Monze District
Workshop Developments
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Having seen the need in Zambia, and being African, gives me a different perspective of science.
-- Peter Muhoro, Hampton University physics student
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Because of COSM-Zambia, I see myself contributing to the scientific community on a global level…Zambia changed me. It gave me a deeper appreciation and understanding for the way we live as a society.
-- Kristie Lee, Hampton University physics student
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How the Benefits Bounce Back•Experiences for:
COSM/QN teachers
HBCU physics students
Young physicists
•Science:
Data acquisition
Collaboration
•Application:
Minority students in US
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Having a basic concept of what life is like in other parts of the world has helped me understand some of my minority students better.
-- Joseph Fehr, Centreville High School
I have increased motivation to help persuade more minority students to take physics…I now have anecdotes from my experiences in Zambia to help them put things in perspective.
-- Lewis Fowler, Centreville High School
My time in Zambia gave me instant credibility with my one Zimbabwean student and her parents; particularly her father.
-- Charles Merriam, Norfolk Academy
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Zambia 2004: Documentary by University of Chicago student
•U of C Arts grant
•Show collaboration between US and Zambian teachers
•Expected ready autumn 2005
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I am able to produce…from waste product[s]…which can be used in the teaching and learning of science…Science goes on…
-- Andrew Chimwanga, St. Mary’s Secondary School, Zambia in documentary preview
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•Trailer and Demo Show visits SA township schools
•Collaboration with Univ of Witswatersrand and Guateng Province
•Becoming more SA
•COSM participation: 1 teacher, 2 students
Physics Emasondosondo: Columbia Program in South Africa
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Cosmic Ray Detectors in Africa and…
•Muhoro: Summer 2005 at Univ of Zambia to create air shower array
•SHARE: Southern Hemisphere Air shower Research and Exploration
•MARIACHI: Mixed Apparatus for Radio Investigation of Atmospheric Cosmic rays of High Ionization
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