Category: Topic:Universe
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Muon Detectives and HERA: Muon Research Opportunities for Australian Secondary Students
Muon Detectives is a collaborative project studying high-altitude muons. It makes use of EduMOD Classroom Muon Detectors to teach students about concepts ranging from special relativity to statistics. The HERA project is an international collaboration in which each participating team, consisting of a mentoring university and a high school, will launch high-altitude balloons equipped with…
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Outreach at the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is heavily invested in outreach activities through Science Fairs and Women in Science projects. They have organized “PAO goes to school” since 2009, visiting a total of 29 schools, followed by a tour of the Observatory.
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HAWC outreach activities
The HAWC collaboration participates in outreach activities like science fairs, public outreach talks, and virtual visits. They are heavily involved in the Noche de las Estrellas, a festival held annually in Mexico since 2009.
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Dark Matter Schools program in Australia
The program aims to create a network of partner schools to address regional schools’ geography and resource limitations. It offers great opportunities to inspire students and provide relatable role models.
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Espace Ballon – Hot Air Balloons Exhibition at Château-d’Oex (CH)
Exhibition on Hot Air Balloons connecting to the discovery of cosmic rays. It took place during the international balloon festival at Chateau-d’Oex in Swizerland.
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The FRONTIERS project
The FRONTIERS project aims to bring together research and educational institutions from all over Europe through the integration of Nobel Prize winning science in the school curriculum. Educational resources are provided through inquiry-based science learning organized into five stages : orienting & asking questions, hypothesis generation & design, planning & investigation, analysis & interpretation and…
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The Cosmos Prize
The Cosmos prize awards Italian books in Physics, Maths, and Astronomy. It aims to promote science outreach and engage young people with science. There are two types of awards: the Cosmos prize awarded by a scientific committee and the Students’ cosmos prize awarded by high school students.
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Perimeter Institute Educational Resources
Perimeter Institute provides free digital educational resources designed to help teachers explain a range of important physics and science topics. Each compilation includes a set of lesson plans, hands-on activities and demos, modifiable worksheets, background information for teachers, and original PI videos.
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Celebrating 50 years of IN2P3 : 1971-2021
To mark its 50-year milestone, IN2P3 unveiled a new website that serves as a repository for various resources, such as a historical overview of the institute and its labs, along with a collection of 35 exhibition posters. Additionally, several events were held in laboratories, including a half-day international scientific symposium closing as a session.
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The “Fun-Q” muography project
Fun-Q is a high school students project of muography (muon tomography) of Japanese ancient mounds (Ko-Fun古墳) using Cosmic ray detector OSECHI (Outreach & Science Education Cosmic-ray Hunting Instrument). The collaborative project at the interface between education, physics and archaeology, promotes students’ understanding of interdisciplinarity and respect for different fields.