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

这个CRPA项目试图用艺术（戏剧）来解释和引起观众对南达科塔州、华盛顿州和路易斯安那州的三个大型NSF赞助的科学中心的兴趣。节目内容包括物理科学：物理、化学、数学、材料和著名科学家，如理查德·费曼。受众包括广泛的公众，包括未得到充分服务的群体，如美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的少数民族，残疾人，特别是农村地区的公民。除了PI， Brian Schwartz博士，该项目还将与南达科他州的Dusel Homestake设施以及路易斯安那州和华盛顿州的两个LIGO设施合作。在与路易斯安那州和华盛顿的两个NSF赞助的LIGO站点以及南达科他州的太阳中微子捕获站点的合作中，PI和他的团队将帮助当地的艺术团体设计合适的戏剧，将科学带给这些站点附近的农村观众。通过这样做，希望当地公众对他们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，艺术人员的专业知识应该使他们能够在这些地点的科学上获得更多的成果，并与现场的科学家一起工作。值得注意的是，这些作品将努力灌输当地文化，包括农村居民、印第安人、残疾人和其他未得到充分服务和代表性不足的观众。通过这种媒介，期望科学教育能在轻松、娱乐的氛围中进行。过去的经验集中在艺术更为普遍的城市环境中。这个项目是在农村环境中的一个实验，那里的科学中心和科学艺术作品少得多。

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.