Category: Audience:Educators & Outreach Community
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QuarkNet – Activities and Coding
The QuarkNet Collaboration is a national program aimed at enhancing STEM workforce participation by involving high school teachers and students in particle physics research. They host various events such as camps and workshops, featuring talks and data analysis.
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German outreach network Netzwerk Teilchenwelt
The Netzwerk Teilchenwelt is a German network that promotes outreach activities and exchange in the community through activities, a shared structure and outreach programs. They host various events such as masterclasses, fellowship programs, themed weeks, meetings with scientists, and Lego-based events. They also train scientists for outreach and produce material for outreach activities.
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IPPOG Inspired Activities in Brazil
The IPPOG Brasil working group is a network of various actors involved in outreach activities and teaching of high-energy physics. A website hosted by the Brazilian Physical Society serves as a communication channel between the scientific community and the public, exclusively in Portuguese. They run Masterclasses, set up a cosmic ray detector network in high…
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The Fellow Program of Netzwerk Teilchenwelt – Keeping young talents attached
The fellow program started in 2017. It takes the form of a multi-step program from masterclass to CERN project week. With tailored trainings for a long term impact. It also manage to maintain 50% females throughout all steps!
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IGFAE Labs (Galicia, Spain)
The IGFAE Labs are newly created spaces directed towards responsible research and innovation (RRI) with society and its immediate surroundings.
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Building wire chambers during national teachers programmes in Budapest and CERN@Wigner
Since 2016, the Hungarian CERN teacher program hold two-evening workshops on constructing Multiwire Proportional Chambers. Due to its success, the workshop was made available to students. It is a good exercice that fosters team building and cooperation.
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Review of the Particle Physics Content High-School Physics Curricula
This international curricular review provides a structured overview of the particle physics content in 27 state, national, and international high-school physics curricula. Overall, this international curricular review provides the basis for future curricular development with respect to particle physics and suggests an increased inclusion of experimental particle physics concepts in high-school physics curricula.
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Engaging Young Minds with Particle Physics
The Outreach team at Münster University identified that in Germany, students usually decide whether or not to continue their physics education around the age of 15. To address the problem, they focused on students aged 10 to 15 to give them a real insight into particle physics research. They also created the Y-Phi (Young Physicists)…
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Tactile quark puzzle
The Spherical Quark-Puzzle provides a 3D visualisation of the quark model of hadrons and the basic conditions under which quarks form hadrons (e.g. neutrons or protons), as dictated by quantum chromodynamics. As a representation of the SU(3) symmetry, the predisposed symmetry of a platonic solid, the (spherical) dodecahedron is used to build all hadrons from…