LIGO Science Education Center partnership

该奖项是通过巴吞鲁日地区基金会（BRAF）资助洛杉矶巴吞鲁日南方大学（SUBR）和洛杉矶利文斯顿LIGO利文斯顿站点之间的激光干涉引力波天文台（LIGO）科学教育中心合作伙伴关系的一部分。 LIGO本身的管理机构是加州理工学院。 整个合作伙伴关系包括LIGO实验室，SUBR的教育和物理学院，数学和科学/数学教育系，路易斯安那州系统性倡议计划（LaSIP）和路易斯安那州获得早期意识和准备本科课程（LA GEAR UP），根据洛杉矶董事会，和旧金山弗朗西斯科探索馆。 LIGO科学教育伙伴关系是一个结合了尖端研究实验室、大学、国家教育改革机构和专门从事非正式科学教育的领先博物馆的努力的项目。 该项目的重点是在路易斯安那州建立一个以LIGO活动为中心的有效的教师培训和教师教育中心。 之前的一个奖项帮助创建了SEC大楼，有一个教室和一个大型展厅，展品由探索馆开发，由SUBR学生讲解员和一个（单独资助的）专业人员组成。 这一新奖项将扩大和加强这一成功，并开始几项新的活动，包括研究儿童在非正式和正式环境中的学习方式，以及该奖项支持的教师专业发展的有效性。 这些新的活动既将提供关于非正式和正式科学教育的学术工作，也将为项目提供反馈，可用于提高活动的有效性。

This award is one component of a collaborative effort to fund the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Science Education Center Partnership between Southern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR), LA, and the LIGO Livingston site in Livingston, La, through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF). The managing institution for LIGO itself is California Institute of technology. The entire partnership includes the LIGO Laboratory, SUBR's College of Education and Physics, Mathematics, and Science/Mathematics Education Departments, the Louisiana Systemic Initiatives Program (LaSIP) and Louisiana Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (LA GEAR UP), under the LA Board of Regents, and the San Francisco Exploratorium. The LIGO Science Education Partnership is a project that combines the efforts of a cutting-edge research laboratory, a university, a State educational reform agency, and a leading museum that specializes in informal science education. The focus of the project is the creation of an effective center for teacher training and teacher education centered on LIGO activities in Louisiana. A previous award helped create the SEC building, with a classroom and a large exhibit hall, with exhibits developed by the Exploratorium and staffed by SUBR student docents and a (separately funded) professional staff. This new award will extend and strengthen this success, and begin several new activities, including studies of the way children learn in both informal and formal settings supported by this award, and the effectiveness of the teacher professional development supported by this award. These new activities will both provide scholarly work on informal and formal science education but will also provide feedback to the project which can be used to increase the effectiveness of the activities.