U.S. Education and Outreach Activities… a selection of initiatives

• Fermilab Tour Area Initiative• EPO in the Pierre Auger Observatory, Mendoza Province, Argentina• The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska, and its affiliates• QuarkNet• The DPF Education and Outreach Committee • World Year of Physics 2005 in the U.S.

Gregory R. SnowUniversity of Nebraska

EPOG Meeting10 October 2003

Feynman ComputingCenter

Wilson Hall

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Fermilab Tour Area Initiative

• Labwide initiative to enhance visitor experiences at Fermilab

• Coordinated by Office of Public Affairs

• External architecture and design firms enlisted to facilitate common look to several satellite Tour Areas

• $5 Million master plan presented to Directorate in July 2003

• Prototype Tour Areas constructed/assembled for August 2003 Lepton-Photon Conference at the lab

Lederman EducationCenter + new Visitor Center

Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone

DZERO Tour Area

Opening for Lepton-Photon ConferenceHuge screen on shielding wall for projected images

Run I and II detector displays, posters Live event displays from control room

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The Pierre Auger Observatory

Southern Hemisphere:Malargüe

Province of MendozaArgentina

Being constructed now

Northern Hemisphere:Millard County, USAConstruction starts

in 2005

1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site

Status of Argentina site• 150 out of 1600 surface detectors installed• 2 out of 4 fluorescence telescope buildings complete• Southern Hemisphere site complete 2005• Extremely impressive air showers have been observed with partial array

Northern Hemisphere site• Construction to start in 2006• Likely site in Millard County, Utah

Setting in Argentina• 6000 people in remote small town Malargüe• Auger collaboration presence quite noticeable• Positive impact desired at many levels• Education/outreach activities organized in a distinct subtask led by G. Snow• Example: tanks carry names provided by local school students

The Pierre Auger Observatory

This shower hit 20 surface tanks !

10 kilometers,or the sizeof a city

Energy 6.3 1019 eV

Zenith angle,almost

horizontal

Goals of the Education/Outreach Task

• Use the Auger Observatory and international collaboration to enhancescience literacy and technology skills in the regions of the Auger sitesand internationally

• Increase public awareness and support for basic research in physics,astrophysics, and all areas of science

• Encourage and support a wide range of education/outreach projectswhich link schools, community groups, and the public with thescience and scientists of the Auger Observatory

• Provide technical and non-technical information on Auger to a wide range of audiences – students, public, government officials, scientific colleagues

• Recruit and encourage the participation of groups underrepresentedin science in Auger education/outreach activities

• Education efforts receive support and emphasis on par with main scientific work

• Paper submitted to 2001 International Cosmic Ray Conference, Hamburg

Public Lectures in Malargüe

• Nightly science talks given to student and adult groups during collaboration meetings• Total attendance 700

Auger collaboration participatesin Malargüe 50th Anniversary Parade

November 2000

Assembly Building Inaugurationand Open House, November 2000

Visitor Center at Auger Office Building

Visitor Center

Data Acquisition

Central communicationsradio tower

Auger Center Building InaugurationOctober 2001

Overhead projector, screen,podium

PC, VCR, receiverin cabinet

Shutters painted blue,refurbished models, speakers

Glass cabinet forlibrary and displays

Multimediaprojector

Visitor Center at Auger Office Building

Visitor Center in Auger Center Building

4250 visitors January 2002 – April 2003

Over 700 people toured Visitor Center after inauguration

Close Contact with Malargüe Schools

Three students place 11th (out of 300) in Mendoza Science Fairwith their Auger exhibit and accompanying posters

Collaborators help with local student science projects

Auger collaboration members present frequent courses for local science teachers

Rebeca Lopez (Mexico) explains hands-onoptics experiments to Malargüe teachers

Malargüe teachers demonstrate theirown experiments to other teachers

Beatriz García (UTN Mendoza) presents an astronomycourse to Malargüe teachers

Rebeca Lopez presenting hands-on course toteachers in General Alvear, 200 km from Malargüe

Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

• Official opening November 2003

• Outside: 2 Mexican SD tanks outdoors with explanatory signs

• Inside: Italian FD prototype from Los Leones, posters, brochures, PC with interactive activities

Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

• 4 posters on self-supporting stands as shown

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Poster 4

Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

4 Posters

3 Posters

2 PCs against wall

Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

• Interior space reserved for Fluorescence Detector mirror assembly

Argentina’s 2nd Planetarium in Malargüe

• City of Malargüe constructing building• Collaboration funding the interior

US Ambassador to Argetina, James Walsh(2nd from left), with Mantsch and Watson at

Auger reception, US Embassy in Buenos Aires

Jim Cronin being interviewed for the Buenos Airestelevision program, “Mateando con la Ciencia”

U.S. Congressional reception for NSF-funded science projects June 2001

Cronin and Snow with Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (NY), Chair of House Science Committee

Other Public Relations Activities