Communicating Materials Science to Secondary Teachers and the General Public: Outreach, Training, and Relationship Building

该项目邀请了100名高中科学和数学教师参加材料研究学会(MRS)2004年秋季会议，会议于2004年11月29日至12月3日在波士顿举行。与此同时，由MRS开发的奇异物质展览在波士顿科学博物馆(MOS)展出。MRS-MOS伙伴关系利用MRS Fall会议提供的基础设施和MOS现有的科学宣传专门知识，开展旨在向教师和公众传播材料科学的活动，并突出向出席会议的研究人员宣传材料科学的需求、机会和方法。教师与研究人员结成伙伴，他们共同参与的活动包括：在MRS会议上就中等教育中的材料科学以及教育工作者和研究人员之间的联系举行研讨会，与奇异物质项目相关的在MOS为教师举办的讲习班，为研究人员举办的有效外展战略讲习班，以及将在MOS举行的关于材料科学的普通公众讲座。预计该项目将通过知识转让产生短期影响，并通过在教育工作者和研究人员之间形成长期关系产生长期影响。

This project brings 100 high school science and math teachers to the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2004 Fall Meeting, held in Boston on November 29 - December 3, 2004. At the same time, the Strange Matter exhibit developed by the MRS is on display at the Boston Museum of Science (MOS). An MRS-MOS partnership that utilizes the infrastructure offered by the MRS Fall Meeting and the science outreach expertise available at MOS implements activities designed to communicate materials sciences to the teachers and to the public, and to highlight needs, opportunities and methods of outreach to researchers attending the meeting. Teachers are paired with researchers, and together they participate in activities that include a symposium at the MRS meeting on materials science in secondary education and on linking educators and researchers, workshops for teachers at the MOS in association with the Strange Matter project, workshops for researchers on effective outreach strategies, and talks for the general public on materials sciences to be held at MOS. The project is expected to have both short-term impact via knowledge transfer and long-term impact via formation of long-term relationships between educators and researchers.