MPS Internships in Public Science Education - MPS-IPSE: Internships for Creating Presentations on Nanotechnology Topics at a Science Center

该奖项授予亚利桑那科学中心(ASC)，由数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室资助，为亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)固态科学中心(ASU)附属的本科生和学校教师提供公共科学教育方面的带薪实习机会。来自该大学的实习生将与科学中心的工作人员合作，为公众和学校制定材料科学主题的外展项目，重点是纳米技术。ASC和亚利桑那州立大学的合作将为每学年三名学生创造为期三年的实习机会，并为两名当地高中教师创造为期两个暑假的实习机会。ASC展品和项目专注于亚利桑那州人们经验和应用的科学，每年有超过40万人参观。亚利桑那州立大学在自然科学的多个跨学科领域促进研究、推广和教育。在拟议的计划中，实习生将与固态科学中心的研究人员和科学中心的教育工作者合作。他们将创建公开演示、“桌面”活动和多媒体穹顶天文馆剧场演示，在这些演示中，材料科学研究的重要发展和概念以一种容易理解的方式呈现。参加了材料科学暑期项目的实习生教师将在暑假期间与这两个机构的研究人员和教育工作者合作，开发适合纳入ASC学校和课后推广计划的材料科学科目的教育项目。这个为期三年的项目将产生13个新项目，在项目结束后，每年将向约16万名游客提供给中心，并每年向1200多名儿童提供参加ASC学校推广项目的机会。将通过出版物和面向博物馆、科学教育和科学专业人员的演示文稿向博物馆、科学教育和科学专业人员传播演示文稿和项目成果。

This award to Arizona Science Center (ASC) funded by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences provides paid Internships in Public Science Education for undergraduate students and school teachers affiliated with the Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University (ASU). The interns from the university will work with science center staff to develop programs for the public and for school outreaches on topics in materials science, with an emphasis on nanotechnology. The ASC-ASU collaboration will create internships for three students per academic year for three years and internships for two local high school teachers per summer for two summers.%%%ASC exhibits and programs focus on science as experienced and applied by people in Arizona and is visited by over 400,000 people annually. ASU promotes research, outreach, and education in a variety of cross-discipline areas in the physical sciences. In the proposed program, student interns will work with research faculty of the Center for Solid State Science and with educators at the Science Center. They will create public demonstrations, "table-top" activities, and multimedia domed planetarium theater presentations in which important developments and concepts in materials science research are presented in an accessible way. Teacher interns who have participated in a summer program in materials science will work with researchers and educators at the two institutions during the summer to develop education programs in materials science subjects suitable for inclusion in ASC's school and after school outreach programs.The three-year project would produce 13 new programs, delivered beyond the life of the project to an estimated 160, 000 visitor's to the Center per year and to over 1200 children per year attending ASC's outreach programs in their schools. Write-ups of the presentations and the results of the project will be disseminated through publications and presentations to museum, science education, and science professionals.