Forging new, non-traditional partnerships among physicists, teachers and students
The QuarkNet collaboration has forged new, nontraditional relationships among particle physicists, high school teachers and their students. QuarkNet provides professional development for teachers and creates opportunities for teachers and students to engage in particle physics data investigations and join research teams. Embedded in the U.S. particle research community, QuarkNet leverages the nature of particle physics research$$-$$the long duration of the experiments with extensive lead times, construction periods, and data collection and analysis periods. QuarkNet is patterned after the large collaborations with a central management infrastructure and a distributed workload across university- and lab-based research groups. As a result, we describe the important benefits of the QuarkNet outreach program that flow to university faculty and present successful strategies that others can adapt for use in their countries.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1362050
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-16-680-WDRS; 1596532
- Journal Information:
- PoS Proceedings of Science, Vol. ICHEP2016; Conference: 38. International Conference on High Energy Physics, Chicago, IL (United States), 3-10 Aug 2016; ISSN 1824-8039
- Publisher:
- SISSACopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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