QuarkNet

该奖项支持 QuarkNet 的继续发展，该项目为高中教师提供宝贵的研究经验，使他们能够在学生感兴趣的背景下教授入门物理的基本概念。 QuarkNet 创建了一个持续不断的全国研究人员社区，其中包括高中教师和学生以及物理学家。 QuarkNet 的目标是维护和增强这个社区，吸引年轻学生从事科学技术职业，帮助培养社会科学素养，并发展高中课堂与用于探索科学前沿的实验和技术之间的联系。 QuarkNet 的主要特点是在教师和科学家之间建立导师关系、为教师提供暑期研究经验以及在中心内部和中心之间发展科学和学习社区。 QuarkNet 为教师提供了变得更加专业的机会，从而为中心、学校、学区及其他地区的同行开发了编程。 QuarkNet 提供了一个集中托管、可扩展、并行的网络学习环境作为类似云的服务。大师班在大学和实验室中心举办，学生团队成为一天的物理学家，分析真实的实验数据并与同行和物理学家在视频会议中讨论结果。 根据这个为期五年的奖项，QuarkNet 将支持 50 多个中心参与 CERN、费米实验室的各种实验以及非加速器和天体物理项目。 在这五年期间，QuarkNet 计划将支持： (1) 长期 QuarkNet 中心的本地计划，每年为约 400 名获得津贴的教师提供支持； (2) 如果新中心加入合作，一些有数周暑期研究任务的教师将在其家附近的大学或实验室的物理学家的指导下工作； (3) 120 名教师将参加费米实验室为期一周的粒子物理数据营，沉浸在强化体验中，学习更多粒子​​物理，并模拟探究性教学和学习的调查方法； (4) 32 名研究员接受了继续培训，使他们具备为其他教师提供专业发展经验的知识和技能； (5) 100 名教师将参与大师班。 在五年内（2018-2022），除了教师之外，该项目预计还将覆盖 150 多名物理学家，并最终覆盖超过 100,000 名学生。 这项工作的一部分是通过 NSF ATLAS 和 CMS 运营奖来支持的。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the continuation of QuarkNet, a program which provides valuable research experience to high school teachers, enabling them to teach the basic concepts of introductory physics in a context that students find exciting. QuarkNet has created an ongoing national community of researchers that include high school teachers and students as well as physicists. QuarkNet's goals are to maintain and enhance this community, to attract young students to careers in science and technology, to help develop scientific literacy in society, and to develop links between the high school classroom and experiments and techniques used to explore the scientific frontier. Key features of QuarkNet are the establishment of mentor relationships between teachers and scientists, summer research experiences for teachers, and the development of a scientific and learning community within and among centers. QuarkNet provides opportunities for teachers to become more professional, resulting in the development of programming for peers in the center, in their schools and districts and beyond. QuarkNet provides a centrally hosted, scalable, parallel cyberlearning environment as a cloud-like service. Held at university and laboratory centers, Masterclasses are institutes for teams of students who become physicists for a day, analyzing real experimental data and discussing results in videoconferences with peers and physicists. Under this five-year award, QuarkNet will support more than 50 centers participating in a variety of experiments at CERN, Fermilab and in non-accelerator and astrophysics programs. In this five-year period, the QuarkNet Program will support: (1) the local programs of the long-term QuarkNet centers for ~400 teachers per year who receive stipends; (2) a few teachers with multi-week summer research appointments to work under the guidance of physicists from a university or laboratory near their homes should new centers join the collaboration; (3) 120 teachers who will attend a one-week particle physics Data Camp at Fermilab to be immersed in an intensive experience to learn more particle physics and one that models an investigation approach to inquiry teaching and learning; (4) 32 fellows with continuing training that gives them the knowledge and skills to offer professional development experiences for other teachers; and (5) 100 teachers who will be involved with masterclasses. Over the five years (2018-2022) this project is expected to reach, in addition to the teachers, more than 150 physicists, and eventually well over 100,000 students. A portion of this effort is supported through the NSF ATLAS and CMS Operations awards.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.