Category: Audience:Educators & Outreach Community
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Science Writers, and Scientists who Write
Success story of Jon Butterworth in science writing. The presentation covers the author’s personal experiences and viewpoints, along with advice for scientists interested in exploring science writing.
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Science in School
The journal supports science teaching through classroom experiments and teaching materials, up-to-date information on cutting-edge science and real-world applications, projects in science education, and other useful resources. Online publication allows wide a range of teaching materials, like printable worksheets, videos or hyperlinks to related resources.
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INFN Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities (OCRA)
The INFN Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities (OCRA) project involves 24 divisions of the Institute all over Italy and offers activities for both students and teachers. The International Cosmic Day – ICD, organized by DESY, is one of the OCRA activities common to all local groups and consists in inviting high school students to carry out…
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The dawn of neutrino astronomy
This is an informative e-book about the Cosmos, which can be downloaded in pdf version, written in Spanish by various authors, reputed scientists and excellent popularisers in their different areas of work and study. A chapter is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.
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Quark puzzle
ark puzzle is a novel approach to visualizing the color symmetries of quarks with a set of 3D printable pieces. Each piece is labelled with a quark type, electric charge and colour charge, and has joints that allow it to connect to other quark pieces. These can be used to discover the rules of the…
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IceCube Education & Outreach Activities
IceCube engages a local, national, and international audience through public outreach events like science festivals and educational game sessions, but also through educational programs during masterclasses and after school programs. They have also developed materials like comics or VR games, partnered with artists, and launched a citizen science project: Name That Neutrino.
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Ligo-Virgo-Kagra outreach activities
The Ligo-Virgo-Kagra International Collaboration engages in numerous outreach activities, both in schools with the Einstein-First Project or Masterclasses, and during public events like festivals with the Big Bang Machine Van, a mobile immersive installation. Online, they contribute to writing new Wikipedia pages and actively participate in communication through social media.
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Symmetry Magazine: applying character-driven storytelling to big science
The Symmetry Magazine is a joint Fermilab/SLAC magazine. They specialize in in-depth content and propose original insights on high-energy physics news. They achieve this by adhering to a carefully designed “Save the Cat” beat sheet for their story, featuring likable characters and precisely identifying the targeted audience.
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REINFORCE multi-sensorial analysis with the SonoUno-Software
REINFORCE developed a multi-sensory approach (image, sound, tactile models) for data analysis and visualization with sonoUno, a user-centered software. To make it accessible, they created twelve training modules, three for each of the four projects developed within REINFORCE.
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Outreach in Congo RDC and South Africa
Inspiring gap year project in Congo and South Africa. There are multiple opportunities for impactful outreach activities through “village of science”, talks, virtual visits, and screenings of the Particle Fever movie.