QuarkNet

该奖项支持QuarkNet的延续，该计划为教师提供宝贵的研究经验，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创建了一个持续的全国性研究人员社区，其中包括高中教师和学生以及物理学家。QuarkNet的目标是维护和加强这个社区，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，并在高中课堂与用于探索科学前沿的实验和技术之间建立联系。QuarkNet的主要特点是在教师和科学家之间建立导师关系，为教师和学生提供长达八周的夏季研究体验，以及在中心内和中心之间发展科学和学习社区。QuarkNet为教师提供了变得更加专业的机会，从而为中心，学校和地区以及其他地区的同行开发编程。 QuarkNet提供了一个集中托管的、可扩展的、并行的网络学习环境，作为一种云服务。大师班在大学和实验室中心举行，是学生团队的研究所，他们成为物理学家一天，分析真实的实验数据，并与同行和物理学家在视频会议上讨论结果。 该奖项由教育和跨学科研究计划，基本粒子物理学计划，理论计划和粒子天体物理学计划共同资助，所有这些都在物理学部门内;和DRK-12计划和本科研究部内的数学和科学伙伴关系计划，以及正式和非正式环境（DRL）部门内的学习研究ITEST计划，在教育和人力资源局。

This award supports the continuation of QuarkNet, a program which provides valuable research experience to teachers enabling them to teach the basic concepts of introductory physics in a context that students find exciting. QuarkNet has created an ongoing national community of researchers that include high school teachers and students as well as physicists. QuarkNet's goals are to maintain and enhance this community, 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. Key features of QuarkNet are the establishment of mentor relationships between teachers and scientists, summer research experiences of up to eight weeks for teachers and students, and the development of a scientific and learning community within and among centers. QuarkNet provides opportunities for teachers to become more professional, resulting in the development of programming for peers in the center, in their schools and districts and beyond. QuarkNet provides a centrally hosted, scalable, parallel cyberlearning environment as a cloud-like service. Held at university and laboratory centers, Masterclasses are institutes for teams of students who become physicists for a day, analyzing real experimental data and discussing results in videoconferences with peers and physicists. This award is cofunded by the Education and Interdisciplinary Research program, the Elementary Particle Physics program, the Theory program, and the Particle Astrophysics program, all within the Physics Division; and the DRK-12 program and the Math and Science Partnership program within the Division of Undergraduate research, and the ITEST program within the Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) Division, in the Education and Human Resources Directorate.