STI: The Strategic Technology Astronomy Research Team (START) Collaboratory: Broadening Participation in Authentic Astronomy Research

START合作实验室将提供数据档案和分析工具、观测工具和资源的门户，一个鼓励互动式在线研究社区的合作框架，以及参与者有效应用工具、资源和技术所需的培训和支持基础设施。START合作实验室将为全国各地的教室带来真实，前沿的科学研究，让学生为天文学研究界贡献真正的成果。战略技术天文学研究小组（START）汇集了三个当前项目，每个项目都创建了经过良好测试的，广泛使用的基于Web的工具。斯隆数字巡天/国家虚拟天文台提供基于网络的档案研究工具，动手宇宙有丰富的经验，帮助和支持高中教师和学生参与真正的天文学研究，合作实验室项目提供了一个基于网络的协作学习环境。所有合作伙伴都有丰富的经验，与学生和教师合作，并与开发培训计划和研讨会。 一些计划中的工具现在作为START的合作伙伴项目的一部分以有限的方式存在，其他工具将在此资助期间编写。这些工具由START合作伙伴开发，随着NVO的出现，可以很容易地扩展和调整为研究界的工具。在START合作实验室，学生将搜索大量的真实的天文学数据档案，将请求和获得望远镜的全球网络上的时间，并将与同学研究人员和专业科学家合作，因为他们评估问题追求，协调研究，分析数据，并报告他们的结果，以全球社区。 START合作实验室将为学生和科学界提供持久的利益。

The START Collaboratory will provide portals to data archives and analysis tools, observation tools and resources, a collaborative framework that encourages interactive online research communities, and the training and support infrastructure needed for participants to effectively apply tools, resources and techniques. The START Collaboratory will bring authentic, cutting-edge scientific research to classrooms across the country, allowing students to contribute genuine results to the astronomy research community. The Strategic Technology Astronomy Research Team (START) brings together three current projects, each of which has created well tested, extensively used Web-based tools. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey / National Virtual Observatory offers Web-based archive research tools, Hands-On Universe has extensive experience helping and supporting high school teachers and students become involved in authentic astronomy research, and the Collaboratory Project provides a Web-based collaborative-learning environment. All partners have extensive experience working with students and teachers, and with developing training programs and workshops. Some of the planned tools exist now in a limited way as part of START.s partner projects, and others will be written during the term of this grant. These tools, developed by the START partners, can easily be scaled up and adapted into tools for the research community with the advent of the NVO. In the START Collaboratory, students will search massive archives of real astronomy data, will request and obtain time on a worldwide network of telescopes, and will collaborate with fellow student researchers and professional scientists as they evaluate problems to pursue, coordinate research, analyze data, and report their results to a worldwide community. The START Collaboratory will provide lasting benefits to both students and the scientific community.