QuarkNet

Quarknet已作为EHR的ESIE计划之间的合作伙伴关系获得资助;多学科活动办公室和基本粒子物理计划（物理部），都在MPS内;以及能源部的高能物理部。QuarkNet是一个国家计划，它将高中科学教师与在科学前沿进行前沿实验的粒子物理学家合作。这些实验正在寻找关于质量起源和支配物理过程的对称性本质的基本问题的答案。QuarkNet为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的目标是建立一个持久的国家研究人员社区，包括高中教师和学生以及物理学家，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，并在高中课堂和用于探索科学前沿的实验和技术之间建立联系。QuarkNet由一群教师，教育工作者和物理学家领导，他们在粒子物理研讨会和研究所，材料开发和教师研究计划方面拥有多年的经验。五名“工作人员”教师帮助设计、协调和运行该项目。QuarkNet被设想和设计为一个长达数十年的计划，其中“增长”阶段为5年，随后是至少两倍于该持续时间的“运营”阶段。在这个方案中，增长阶段每年接纳12个新中心，直到达到最多60个中心;运营阶段监督中心的成熟，使其成为一个包容和参与的研究人员社区。QuarkNet目前已经完成了第三个年头，由位于全国各地的大学和实验室的36个中心组成。根据这项为期五年的提案，QuarkNet将在第二个提案年年底完成增长阶段，科学教育中心将参与费米实验室、CERN、SLAC的各种实验，以及非加速器和天体物理学项目。在这两年的时间里，48名“带头”教师，每个新中心两名，将举行为期8周的研究预约，并将在他们家附近的大学或实验室的物理学家的指导下工作。在接下来的运营期间（建议3-5年），QuarkNet将重新访问现有的中心（再次以12人为一组），提供为期8周的科学预约，并通过在物理学家和监督教师的指导下直接让高中生参与研究项目来加强正在进行的研究经验和活动，持续时间长达8周。QuarkNet的主要特点是在教师和科学家之间建立导师关系，为领导和监督教师提供长达8周的夏季研究经验，为助理教师提供1-3周的夏季研究经验，将高中生纳入研究人员，以及在中心内和中心之间发展科学“社区”。在2002-2006年的五年中，这项建议预计将达到720名教师，100多名物理学家，并最终超过50 000名学生，其中约300人将有夏季研究经验。

Quarknet has been funded as a partnership among the ESIE program of EHR ; the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities and the Elementary Particle Physics Program (Division of Physics) , both within MPS; as well as the Division of High Energy Physics at DOE. QuarkNet is a national program that partners high school science teachers with particle physicists working in forefront experiments at the scientific frontier. These experiments are searching for answers to fundamental questions about the origin of mass and about the nature of symmetries that govern physical processes. QuarkNet provides valuable research experience to teachers enabling them to teach the basic concepts of introductory physics in a context that students find exciting. QuarkNet's goals are to establish a lasting national community of researchers that includes high school teachers and students as well as physicists, 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. QuarkNet is led by a group of teachers, educators and physicists with many years of experience in particle physics workshops and institutes, materials development and teacher research programs. Five "staff" teachers help design, coordinate and run the project. QuarkNet has been envisaged and designed as a multi-decade-long program with a "growth" phase of 5 years followed by an "operational" phase of at least twice that duration. In this schema, the growth phase admits twelve new centers per year until a maximum of 60 centers is reached; the operational phase oversees the maturation of the centers into an inclusive and engaging community of researchers. Currently completing its third year, QuarkNet comprises 36 centers located at universities and laboratories around the country. Under this five-year proposal, QuarkNet will complete the growth phase by the end of the second proposal year, with science education centers participating in a variety of experiments at Fermilab, CERN, SLAC, and in non-accelerator and astrophysics programs. In this two-year period 48 "lead" teachers, two from each new center, will hold 8-week research appointments and will work under the guidance of physicists from a university or laboratory near their homes. In the operational period to follow (proposal years 3-5), QuarkNet will revisit existing centers (again in groups of 12) to offer 8-week scientific appointments, and to strengthen ongoing research experiences and activities by engaging high school students directly in research projects under the direction of physicists and supervising teachers, for periods up to 8 weeks duration. Key features of QuarkNet are the establishment of mentor relationships between teachers and scientists, summer research experiences of up to 8-weeks for lead and supervising teachers and 1-3 weeks for associate teachers, the inclusion of high school students as researchers, and the development of scientific "community" within and among centers. Over the five years 2002-2006, this proposal is expected to reach up to 720 teachers, more than 100 physicists, and eventually more than 50,000 students, approximately 300 of whom will have summer research experiences.