The Milky-Way Hands-on with Gaia

该项目将继续并加强剑桥大学盖亚团队的外展活动，以实际操作的方式将盖亚任务带给学生和公众。盖亚是欧洲航天局绘制银河系地图的基石任务：我们正在利用天文学和空间科学的鼓舞人心价值，让公众参与stfc资助的前沿研究，并吸引学生学习STEM学科。作为这个项目的一部分，我们的盖亚专家团队将把我们现有的互动盖亚展台，包括技术比例模型和实践活动，带到科学展览和学校和公共场所的类似活动中。该项目将以盖亚为背景，突出与天文学和空间科学任务相关的广泛STEM职业。盖亚涵盖了从为任务开发技术的工程，到应对大数据挑战的高级计算，再到解释这些数据所需的基础科学研究的许多领域。英国在Gaia中有重要的工业参与，在提供和分析科学数据方面也发挥着关键作用，这意味着我们有一些知名雇主的例子。我们将突出一系列令人兴奋的职业机会给学生，特别是那些在关键阶段2-4的学生，以及他们的老师和家长。我们也会利用这些活动来增加我们盖亚网站https://gaia.ac.uk的流量。在我们学校的活动中，我们将让大量的学生和他们的老师讨论如何参与，目的是让他们对参与真正科学的想法充满热情。我们将在我们的网站上解释我们可用的教育资源（以及正在开发的），并在当天注册以获取更多信息，从而建立一个教师社区，我们可以在未来与之合作，将盖亚带入课堂。我们将开发教师包，以支持教师和其他小组领导进一步参与课堂，并为科学家提供盖亚演示包，其中包含演示幻灯片和辅助材料，以方便英国各地的科学家在他们的地区进行盖亚演示。我们将为这些团体提供“免费赠品”——贴纸、徽章……广告网站网址。接下来的一年，我们将看到盖亚的首次公开数据发布（2016年9月），这是一个让公众参与这项任务的关键机会。（第二次数据发布大约在一年后，将包括大量额外的数据）。我们将在我们的公共活动中通过制作和分发新的信息包来解释盖亚数据的重要性。我们将在第二次数据发布时更新这些数据，以解释使用第一次数据发布的新数据和最新研究结果。我们的目标是展示由英国和stfc资助的科学家进行的与盖亚有关的世界级天文学研究。我们将有一个盖亚专家团队，愿意前往与盖亚数据发布相关的宣传活动。这个项目的整体影响是巨大的：我们将在大型活动中接触到4万目标受众。游客可以了解到盖亚的使命，查看我们的比例模型，了解盖亚的目的，带走更多的阅读材料和免费赠品，突出我们的盖亚网站，其中有许多进一步的资源。在大型活动中，我们每天平均有2500人参与，深入讨论盖亚科学、技术、职业以及如何参与。每天有10位教师注册，以获取更多信息，规划未来的课堂活动。并传播信息，扩大影响。为该项目开发的材料将用于通过演讲者包激励其他听众，允许由全英国盖亚学术界成员进行许多当地演讲。

This project will continue and enhance the outreach activities of the Gaia team at the University of Cambridge in bringing the Gaia mission to school students and the general public in a hands-on way. Gaia is a European Space Agency cornerstone mission to map the Milky Way: we are taking advantage of the inspirational value of astronomy and space science to engage the public with cutting-edge, STFC-funded research and to attract pupils to STEM subjects. As part of this project, our team of Gaia experts will bring our existing interactive Gaia stand, which includes technical scale models and hands-on activities, to science fairs and similar events at schools' and public venues.This project will use Gaia as a context to highlight the broad range of STEM careers relating to astronomy and space-science missions. Gaia encompasses disciplines from engineering to develop the technology for the mission, to advanced computing to tackle the challenge presented by big data, to the many areas of fundamental science research needed to interpret these data. The UK has had a significant industrial involvement in Gaia, and also has a key role in delivering and analysing the scientific data meaning that we have examples of well-known employers for students. We will highlight the range of exciting career opportunities to pupils - especially those at Key Stages 2-4 - and their teachers and parents. We will also use these events as a way to increase traffic to our Gaia website https://gaia.ac.uk. At our schools' events, we will engage large numbers of school students and their teachers in conversations about how they can get involved with the aim of enthusing them about the idea of taking part in real science. We will explain the educational resources we have available on our website (and in development) and sign up on the day for more information, thus building a community of teachers that we can work with in the future to bring Gaia into the classroom. We will develop teacher packs to support teachers in getting further involved in the classroom, and other group leaders, and Gaia presenter packs for scientists with presentation slides and supporting materials to facilitate scientists around the UK in giving Gaia presentations in their region. We will provide these groups with "freebies" - stickers, badges,.. advertising the website url.The coming year will see Gaia's first public data release (September 2016), a key opportunity for engaging the public with the mission. (The second data release takes place approximately one year later and will include a wealth of extra data). We will explain the significance of the Gaia data being released by producing and distributing new information packs at our public events. We will update these for the second data release to explain the new data and the latest results from studies done with data from the first release. We aim to showcase the world-class astronomy research related to Gaia that is being carried out by UK and STFC-funded scientists. We will have a team of Gaia experts willing to travel to publicity events connected with the Gaia Data Releases.The expected overall impact of this project is large: we will reach 40000 targeted demographic audiences at large events. Visitors are made aware of the Gaia mission, view our scale models and get an idea of Gaia's purpose, taking away further reading material and freebies highlighting our Gaia website, which has many further resources. At large events we reach on average 2,500 people per day with an in-depth conversation about Gaia science, technology, careers and how to get involved. Ten teachers perday sign-up for further information planning future classroom activities. And spread the word, multiplying impact.The materials developed for the project will be used to inspire other audiences through speaker packs, allowing many local talks given by members of the UK-wide Gaia academic community.