Education and Public Outreach at the Soudan Underground Lab

苏丹地下实验室的教育和公共宣传

• 批准号: 0855647
• 负责人: Richard Gran
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota Duluth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Public; Outreach; Soudan; Underground

With this award funds are provided for partial support of the public outreach program at the Soudan Mine Underground Laboratory, the country's only operational underground high energy particle physics and astrophysics facility. The Lab is hosted in a Minnesota State Park, where each year about 4,000 of the Park's visitors venture 2,341 feet underground to see the facility, the MINOS and CDMS-II experiments, and to learn about neutrinos and Dark Matter. The proposed work is for two high school science teachers and two undergraduate interns to work in the lab over the summer, and an outreach coordinator who will contribute year round. Their primary duty is to help give the twice-daily "physics tours" and explain the lab and the science to visitors of the park. They then use this experience and their science education skills to improve the lab's outreach program and develop lesson plans and educational materials for use by the many school groups which visit the lab on field trips during the school year. They also participate in research projects with the experiments in the lab including MINOS and CDMS. The funds will also support the annual Open House. Most years since 1989, the lab has been open, free to the community at large for a day in the spring. Special displays are set up and hundreds of visitors are shown around the lab by the participating scientists. This gives the lab a high, positive profile in the community as well as share the science. The posters and educational materials developed are available on the website and used throughout the year.

这笔奖金将部分用于支持苏丹矿山地下实验室的公共推广项目，该实验室是该国唯一运行的地下高能粒子物理和天体物理设施。该实验室位于明尼苏达州立公园，每年约有4000名公园游客冒险进入地下2341英尺的地方，参观该设施、MINOS和CDMS-II实验，并了解中微子和暗物质。拟议的工作是让两名高中科学教师和两名本科生实习生在这个夏天在实验室工作，以及一名全年贡献的外联协调员。他们的主要职责是帮助进行每天两次的“物理之旅”，并向公园的游客解释实验室和科学。然后，他们利用这些经验和他们的科学教育技能来改进实验室的外展计划，并制定课程计划和教育材料，供许多学校团体在学年期间实地考察实验室时使用。他们还参与了实验室实验的研究项目，包括MINOS和CDMS。这些资金还将用于支持一年一度的开放日活动。自1989年以来的大多数年份，该实验室都是开放的，在春天的一天免费向整个社区开放。专门的展览被设置起来，数百名参观者在参与的科学家的带领下参观实验室。这使实验室在社区中获得了很高的正面形象，并分享了科学。制作的海报和教育材料可在网站上找到，并全年使用。