EAGER: MAKER: Nano-Makerspace to Make and Explore in the World of the Small

这个项目将使广大的高中生和教师、本科生和公众接触到纳米级的“小世界”以及在纳米级管理物理世界的规则。这些规则与我们在日常生活中通常经历的非常不同。在纳米尺度上探索的工具、技术诀窍和环境通常是典型的制造者空间无法企及的。拥有这种能力的机构往往将设施限制在研究生和研究科学家之间。虽然这支持优秀的研究，但它不支持非正式的、面向过程的方法的创建者环境，以自我发现兴趣和技能。拟议的项目将为“制造者”提供工具、环境和知识，通过应用制造原理来探索“小世界”。项目过程中将讨论三个研究问题：(I)纳米制造空间/移动纳米实验室的暴露对学生掌握“纳米”和“量子概念”的能力有何影响；(Ii)引入纳米制造空间对不同学生群体的影响是什么？以及(Iii)该项目的研究结果如何应用于积极影响传统教育方法？

ABSTRACTThis project will expose a broad community of high school students and teachers, undergraduate students and the public to the nanoscale "World of the Small" as well as the rules that govern the physical world at the nanoscale level. These rules are very different from what we generally experience in our everyday lives. The tools, know-how, and environment to explore at the nanoscale have been generally out of reach of typical Makerspaces. Institutions with such capabilities often limit facilities to graduate students and research scientists. While this supports excellent research, it does not support the Maker environment of informal, process-oriented approaches to self-discovery of interests and skills. The proposed project will provide the tools, environment, and the knowledge to "Makers" to explore the "World of the Small" by applying the principles of Making. Three research questions will be addressed in the course of the project: (i) What is the impact of the Nano-Maker space / mobile Nano lab exposure on students' ability to grasp "nano" and "quantum concepts" (ii) What is the impact across different student populations of introducing Nano-Makerspaces?, and (iii) How can the findings from the project be applied to positively impact traditional educational approaches?