QuarkNet

该奖项支持QuarkNet的延续，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到兴奋的环境中教授入门物理的基本概念。QuarkNet创建了一个正在进行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事业，帮助社会发展科学素养，并在高中课堂和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，从而为中心的同龄人、他们的学校和学区以及其他地方的同龄人提供了编程的发展。QuarkNet提供了一个集中托管的、可扩展的、并行的网络学习环境，就像云服务一样。大师班在大学和实验室中心举办，是为成为物理学家的学生团队提供的机构，他们在一天的时间里分析真实的实验数据，并在视频会议上与同行和物理学家讨论结果。根据这项为期三年的奖励，QuarkNet将支持50多个中心参与欧洲核子研究中心、费米实验室以及非加速器和天体物理学项目的各种实验。在这三年期间，QuarkNet计划将支持：(1)长期QuarkNet中心的本地项目，每年约400名教师获得津贴；(2)如果有新的研究中心加入合作，少数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工作；(3) 72名教师参加为期一周的费米实验室粒子物理数据营，深入学习粒子物理知识，以探究式教学为模式；(4) 72名教师参加为期一周的编程营。编码营将真实的实验数据交到教师手中，并提供适当的背景、IT工具、培训和支持，使他们能够成功地指导学生进行课堂研究调查。（五）32名研究员，接受持续培训，获得知识和技能，为其他教师提供专业发展经验；(6)参与大师班的教师60人。在三年（2023-2026年）的时间里，除了教师之外，该项目预计将惠及150多名物理学家，最终将惠及6万多名学生。这项工作的一部分通过NSF ATLAS和CMS操作奖得到支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 three-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 three-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) 72 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) 72 teachers will attend a one-week Coding Camp. Coding Camps put authentic experimental data into the hands of teachers and provide the appropriate background, IT tools, training and support that allows them to successfully guide their students in classroom research investigations. (5) 32 fellows with continuing training that gives them the knowledge and skills to offer professional development experiences for other teachers; and (6) 60 teachers who will be involved with masterclasses. Over the three years (2023-2026) this project is expected to reach, in addition to the teachers, more than 150 physicists, and eventually well over 60,000 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.