Project ThaiPASS: Thailand-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools 2020 and 2021.

ThaiPASS 项目：2020 年和 2021 年泰国-英国 Python 天文学暑期学校。

• 批准号: ST/T007141/1
• 负责人: Siri Chongchitnan
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FT007141%2F1
• 关键词: Project; ThaiPASS; Thailand; UK; Python+Astronomy

Project ThaiPASS (Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer School) is a human-capacity building STEM-outreach project involving 3 UK universities (Warwick, Hull, UCLan) and 2 Thai partners (Naresuan and NARIT).The core activity of ThaiPASS is a 5-day workshop aimed at Thai secondary school students age around 16-18. Students will receive hands-on training in scientific computing in Python, one of the world's fastest growing open-source programming languages and one of the most desirable from an employability perspective. Students will learn to use Python to mine, analyse and visualise data. This will be done via the medium of astronomy, which is one of the most inspiring and high-impact STEM enablers. Professional astronomers from the UK will guide students through a series of lectures and hands-on tasks involving handling astronomical data and producing visual output such as astronomical images and graphs. Students will leave the summer school with a new perspective on the role of data science in modern scientific research, and will be inspired to continue to learn coding beyond the scope and time-scale of the summer school. Each summer school concludes with a "university and career" day to inform students on how STEM subjects can be taken further at university level and as a career.The ThaiPASS project will address many of the challenges in science and ICT education in Thailand, which has fallen far behind other countries emerging out of the middle-income trap. At ThaiPASS, we will bring STFC-funded science to new audiences who may not have the opportunity to access such training otherwise. The skills developed at ThaiPASS are current, relevant and easily transferable to a wide range of industrial and academic applications. Our experience with delivering ThaiPASS in 2018 and 2019 has informed us that our workshop is unique from other locally organised "summer camps" which are geared towards Olympiad-style training. Feedback over the past 2 years have been overwhelmingly positive, with many previous participants going on to higher education in various STEM areas. For the 20/21 schools, we will deliver bigger events (doubling the number of participants), cover more topics in astronomy, and provide separate teacher-training sessions.In recent years, Thailand has established itself as an emerging player in astrophysics research thanks to a new generation of internationally recognised researchers at NARIT, Chiang Mai, Naresuan. Chulalongkorn, Suranaree etc. Investment in the ThaiPASS project will be an important step towards forging a strong and lasting Thai-UK synergy, which can easily spin off into future collaborations in astrophysics research and further outreach activities.

项目ThaiPASS（泰国-英国Python+天文学暑期学校）是一个人力能力建设STEM外联项目，涉及3所英国大学（沃里克，船体，中央兰开夏）和2个泰国合作伙伴（Naresuan和NARIT）。ThaiPASS的核心活动是针对16-18岁的泰国中学生的为期5天的研讨会。学生将接受Python科学计算方面的实践培训，Python是世界上增长最快的开源编程语言之一，也是从就业角度来看最理想的语言之一。学生将学习使用Python来挖掘，分析和可视化数据。这将通过天文学媒介来完成，这是最鼓舞人心和最具影响力的STEM推动者之一。来自英国的专业天文学家将指导学生通过一系列讲座和实践任务，涉及处理天文数据和产生视觉输出，如天文图像和图表。学生将离开暑期学校，对数据科学在现代科学研究中的作用有一个新的视角，并将受到启发，继续学习暑期学校范围和时间范围之外的编码。每个暑期学校都以“大学与职业”日结束，让学生了解如何在大学阶段进一步学习STEM科目并将其作为职业。ThaiPASS项目将解决泰国在科学和ICT教育方面的许多挑战，泰国远远落后于其他正在摆脱中等收入陷阱的国家。在ThaiPASS，我们将把STFC资助的科学带给新的观众，他们可能没有机会获得这样的培训。在ThaiPASS开发的技能是当前的，相关的，很容易转移到广泛的工业和学术应用。我们在2018年和2019年提供ThaiPASS的经验告诉我们，我们的研讨会与其他当地组织的“夏令营”不同，这些夏令营面向奥运会式的培训。在过去的两年中，反馈是压倒性的积极，许多以前的参与者继续在各个STEM领域接受高等教育。对于20/21学校，我们将提供更大的活动（参与者人数增加一倍），涵盖更多的天文学主题，并提供单独的教师培训课程。近年来，由于NARIT，清迈，Naresuan的新一代国际公认的研究人员，泰国已成为天体物理学研究的新兴参与者。对ThaiPASS项目的投资将是建立强大而持久的泰英协同作用的重要一步，这可以很容易地扩展到天体物理学研究和进一步推广活动的未来合作中。

项目成果

Project ThaiPASS: International Outreach Blending Astronomy and Python

ThaiPASS 项目：融合天文学和 Python 的国际推广

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: arXiv e-prints
• 作者: Keegans James D.