QuarkNet

QuarkNet是一个国家计划，将高中科学教师和学生与从事科学前沿实验的粒子物理学家合作。这些实验正在寻找基本问题的答案，这些问题包括质量的起源、时空的维度以及支配物理过程的对称性的性质。在QuarkNet附属于能源前沿的实验项目中，大型强子对撞机正处于发现的地平线上。大型强子对撞机将在这个计划的5年内上线。QuarkNet由一群在专业发展研讨会和研究所、材料开发和教师研究计划方面拥有多年经验的教师、教育工作者和物理学家领导。该项目由25个州和波多黎各的大学和研究实验室的52个中心组成。建议为Quarknet提供资金，作为以下机构之间的伙伴关系：EHR的ESIE计划；多学科活动办公室和初级粒子物理计划(物理司)；以及能源部高能物理司。

QuarkNet is a national program that partners high school science teachers and students with particle physicists working in experiments at the scientific frontier. These experiments are searching for answers to fundamental questions about the origin of mass, the dimensionality of spacetime and the nature of symmetries that govern physical processes. Among the experimental projects at the energy frontier with which QuarkNet is affiliated is the Large Hadron Collider, which is poised at the horizon of discovery. The LHC will come on line during the 5-years of this program. QuarkNet is led by a group of teachers, educators and physicists with many years of experience in professional development workshops and institutes, materials development and teacher research programs. The project consists of 52 centers at universities and research labs in 25 states and Puerto Rico. It is proposed that Quarknet be 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.