QuarkNet

该奖项支持QuarkNet的延续，该计划为高中教师提供了宝贵的研究经验，使他们能够在学生感到兴奋的背景下教授入门物理学的基本概念。 QuarkNet创建了一个持续的全国性研究人员社区，其中包括高中教师和学生以及物理学家。QuarkNet的目标是维护和加强这个社区，吸引年轻学生从事科学和技术职业，帮助发展社会科学素养，并在高中课堂与用于探索科学前沿的实验和技术之间建立联系。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，学校和地区以及其他地区的同行开发编程。 QuarkNet提供了一个集中托管的、可扩展的、并行的网络学习环境，作为一种云服务。大师班在大学和实验室中心举行，是学生团队的研究所，他们成为物理学家一天，分析真实的实验数据，并与同行和物理学家在视频会议上讨论结果。 在这个为期五年的奖项下，QuarkNet将支持50多个中心参与CERN，Fermilab以及非加速器和天体物理学计划的各种实验。 在这五年期间，QuarkNet计划将支持：（1）长期QuarkNet中心的本地计划，每年约有400名教师获得津贴;（2）如果新中心加入合作，一些教师将在他们家附近的大学或实验室的物理学家的指导下进行为期数周的夏季研究预约;（三）一百二十名教师将参加在费米实验室举行的为期一周的粒子物理数据营，深入体验粒子物理学知识，并以探究式教学模式进行示范;（4）32名研究员接受持续培训，使他们掌握知识和技能，为其他教师提供专业发展经验;（5）100名教师将参与大师班。 在五年内（2018-2022），该项目预计将达到，除了教师，超过150名物理学家，并最终超过10万名学生。 这项工作的一部分是通过NSF ATLAS和CMS运营奖支持的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.