MPS Internships in Public Science Education - MPS-IPSE: Internships for Creating Presentations on Nanotechnology Topics at a Science Center

该奖项授予亚利桑那科学中心（ASC），由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室资助，为亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）固态科学中心附属的本科生和学校教师提供公共科学教育的带薪实习。来自该大学的实习生将与科学中心的工作人员合作，为公众和学校开发有关材料科学主题的项目，重点是纳米技术。ASC-ASU的合作将为三名学生提供为期三年的每学年实习机会，并为两名当地高中教师提供为期两个夏天的暑期实习机会。亚利桑那科学中心的展品和项目侧重于亚利桑那州人民的科学经验和应用，每年有超过40万人参观。亚利桑那州立大学在物理科学的各个跨学科领域促进研究、推广和教育。在拟议的项目中，学生实习生将与固态科学中心的研究人员和科学中心的教育工作者一起工作。他们将创建公共演示、“桌面”活动和多媒体圆顶天文馆剧院演示，以一种可访问的方式展示材料科学研究的重要发展和概念。参加暑期材料科学项目的教师实习生将在暑期与两所机构的研究人员和教育工作者合作，开发适合ASC学校和课后推广项目的材料科学学科教育项目。这个为期三年的项目将产生13个新项目，在项目结束后，每年将有大约16万名游客到中心参观，每年有1200多名儿童在他们的学校参加ASC的外展项目。报告和项目结果的文章将通过出版物和报告传播给博物馆、科学教育和科学专业人士。

This award to Arizona Science Center (ASC) funded by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences provides paid Internships in Public Science Education for undergraduate students and school teachers affiliated with the Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University (ASU). The interns from the university will work with science center staff to develop programs for the public and for school outreaches on topics in materials science, with an emphasis on nanotechnology. The ASC-ASU collaboration will create internships for three students per academic year for three years and internships for two local high school teachers per summer for two summers.%%%ASC exhibits and programs focus on science as experienced and applied by people in Arizona and is visited by over 400,000 people annually. ASU promotes research, outreach, and education in a variety of cross-discipline areas in the physical sciences. In the proposed program, student interns will work with research faculty of the Center for Solid State Science and with educators at the Science Center. They will create public demonstrations, "table-top" activities, and multimedia domed planetarium theater presentations in which important developments and concepts in materials science research are presented in an accessible way. Teacher interns who have participated in a summer program in materials science will work with researchers and educators at the two institutions during the summer to develop education programs in materials science subjects suitable for inclusion in ASC's school and after school outreach programs.The three-year project would produce 13 new programs, delivered beyond the life of the project to an estimated 160, 000 visitor's to the Center per year and to over 1200 children per year attending ASC's outreach programs in their schools. Write-ups of the presentations and the results of the project will be disseminated through publications and presentations to museum, science education, and science professionals.