Science Facilities: Communicating STEM Research to the Public Through the Arts

这个CRPA项目试图用艺术(戏剧)来解释和吸引观众，了解美国国家科学基金会在南达科他州、华盛顿州和路易斯安那州的三个大型科学中心。节目内容包括物理科学：物理、化学、数学、材料和理查德·费曼等著名科学家。受众包括广泛的公众，包括服务不足的群体，如美洲原住民和其他代表不足的少数民族、残疾人，特别是农村环境中的公民。除了布莱恩·施瓦茨博士，该项目还将与南达科他州的杜塞尔·霍姆斯塔克设施以及路易斯安那州和华盛顿州的两个LIGO设施合作。与NSF在路易斯安那州和华盛顿州的两个LIGO地点以及NSF在南达科他州的太阳中微子捕获地点合作，PI和他的团队将帮助当地艺术团体设计适当的戏剧，将科学带给这些地点附近的农村观众。通过这样做，希望当地公众对他们所在社区的科学努力的许多方面有更多的了解和更大的兴趣。因此，艺术人员发展的专业知识应该使他们能够获得更多关于这些遗址的科学成果，并与现场的科学家合作。值得注意的是，这些作品将努力灌输当地文化(S)，包括农村居民、美洲原住民、残疾人和其他服务不足和代表不足的观众。通过这一媒介，预计科学教育将在轻松愉快的氛围中衍生出来。过去的经验集中在城市环境中，那里的艺术更常见。这个项目是在农村环境中进行的一项实验，那里的科学中心和涉及科学的艺术作品要少得多。

This CRPA project seeks to use the arts (theater) to explain and interest audiences about three large NSF sponsored science centers in the state of South Dakota, Washington and Louisiana. Content of the programs include the physical sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Materials and famous scientists such as Richard Feynman. The audiences include a broad spectrum of the public including underserved groups such as Native Americans and other underrepresented minorities, people with disabilities, and particularly citizens in rural environments. In addition to the PI, Dr. Brian Schwartz, the project will be a cooperative endeavor with the Dusel Homestake facility in South Dakota, and the two LIGO facilities in Louisiana and the state of Washington.In cooperation with the two NSF sponsored LIGO sites in Louisiana and Washington as well as the NSF sponsored Solar Neutrino capture site in South Dakota, the PI and his team will help the local arts groups design appropriate plays that will bring science to the rural audiences near these sites. By so doing, it is hoped that the local public will be more understanding of and have greater interest in the many aspects of the scientific endeavors in their community. Thus, the developed expertise in the arts personnel should enable them to derive more productions on the science of these sites and to work with the scientists on site.It is important to note that these productions will strive to inculcate the local culture(s) which include rural residents, Native Americans, people with disabilities, and other underserved and underrepresented audiences. Through this medium it is anticipated that science education will derived in a relaxed and entertaining atmosphere. Past experience has been centered in urban environments where the Arts are more common. This project is an experiment in rural environments where there are many fewer science centers and art productions dealing with science.