# Presentation: 253743

## The QuarkNet Story

**The QuarkNet Story**

**Bringing high school teachers and their students**
**to physics frontiers**

**Marge Bardeen, Fermilab**

## A Coherent Education Program

**       ****2 ****DOE labs**** ****host project offices**
**       ****4**** Experiments (ATLAS, CMS, CDF,  DØ)**
**     ****10**** Years just to build detectors**
**     ****60**** Research groups**
**1,000****s of scientists worldwide**
**Petabyte****-scale computing**** **

##  A research community of physicists,
 high school teachers & their students

Physicists as mentors & colleagues
Teachers as researchers & classroom research leaders
Students as researchers

** ****high school teachers & their students**
**Physicists as mentors & colleagues**
**Teachers as researchers & classroom research leaders**
**Students as researchers**

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

** ****Engaging teachers, and subsequently their students, **
**    ****in scientific investigations**
**   ****Confronting particle physicists with current issues **
**    ****in science education**

## Long-term 
Central oversite, resources 
     & support
Flexible local programs
Distributed among 60 research groups
Leveraged local resources
Research-based professional development
Online instructional resources for student research

**Central oversite, resources **
**     ****& support**
**Flexible local programs**
**Distributed among 60 research groups**
**Leveraged local resources**
**Research-based professional development**
**Online instructional resources for student research**

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**Program Profile**

**Managed Like an HEP Project**

## Students learn fundamental physics by:
 Analyzing real data delivered online. 
 Collaborating with students worldwide.
 Participating in inquiry-oriented investigations.
 Experimenting using classroom cosmic ray detectors.
 Visiting research groups & experiments.
 Constructing & testing detector components.

** ****Analyzing real data delivered online. **
** ****Collaborating with students worldwide.**
** ****Participating in inquiry-oriented investigations.**
** ****Experimenting using classroom cosmic ray detectors.**
** ****Visiting research groups & experiments.**
*** ******Constructing & testing detector components.***

**Student Outcomes**

## Year 1
 One-week summer institute at Fermilab 
 Seven-week summer research appointments

Year 2 
 Three-week research-based summer institutes

Following Years
 One-week follow-on activities

QuarkNet Website quarknet.fnal.gov

** ****One-week summer institute at Fermilab **
** ****Seven-week summer research appointments**
**    **
**Year 2**** **
** ****Three-week research-based summer institutes**
**    **
**Following Years**
** ****One-week follow-on activities**
**QuarkNet Website ****quarknet.fnal.gov**

**Teacher Programs**

**Online Data Delivery**

**Technology supports problem-based student investigations****.**

## QuarkNet/Grid Project

**QuarkNet/Grid Project**

**Provides access to computing power and scientific data for students who would not otherwise have such opportunities. **
**Uses the potential of frontier science and Grid computing to transform science teaching and learning.**
**May provide infrastructure for “federating” with other experiments using the Grid.**

## Goals

**Goals**

**Students participate in a scientific collaboration and **
**make real contributions to a scientific field. **
**Students use virtual data tools and techniques to upload,**
**access, process and publish data, report their results as**
**online posters, and have online discussions about their**
**work with peers.**
**Educational researchers evaluate the effectiveness of **
**such an endeavor.**
**Grid specialists explore interface designs that enhance**
**accessibility to Grid data and computational resources.**

## “Virtual Data Workstation”

**“****Virtual Data Workstation”**

**It’s a place to:**
** ****Keep and organize datasets.**
** ****Perform computations on the data.**
** ****Create new computations and analyses.**
** ****View and share results.**
** ****Experiment and discover.**
** ****Annotate and enquire (using metadata).**
** ****Communicate and collaborate.**
**It’s easy to use, ubiquitous, no**** ****tools to install.**

## The Science

**The Science**

**Where do highly energetic cosmic rays come from? **
**Where do they get their energy? **
**What secrets do they hold about the early universe? **

**Cosmic Ray Mysteries**

##  The Experiments

** ****The Experiments**

## V 0.3 Demo

**V 0.3 Demo**

**Homepage**

## Data Upload

**Data Upload**

## Data Display

**Data Display**

## Equipment Test

**Equipment Test**

## Data Analysis

**Data Analysis**

## Testing Detector

**Testing Detector**

**Typical Plot**

## Studies

**Studies**

## Poster Session

**Poster Session**

## Student Poster

**Student Poster**

## Figure

**Figure**

## Peer Comments

**Peer Comments**

## Development Team

**Development Team**

**Computing/Web/Design**
**M. Wilde - UC & ANL**
**L. Quigg  -FNAL**
**M. Clayton - FNAL**
**Physicist**
**R. Ruchti - UND**
**QNet Educators**
**M. Bardeen - FNAL **
**T. Jordan - FNAL**
**B. Marchant - UND **
**P. Mooney - UND**
**Evaluator**
**       ****J. Young**

**Teachers**
**E. Fidler – Boston MS**
**L. Rose – Penn HS**
**Grad Student**
**       ****Y. Zhao – UC**
**Undergrad Students**
**       ****P. Nepywoda – Uof I**
**       ****E. Peryshkin - Uof I**
**       ****Y. Wu – MIT**
**High School Students**
**       ****A. Bahal - IMSA**
**       ****J. Frankle – LaLumiere HS**
**       ****J. Shreve – LaLumiere HS**

## Everybody Wins

**Everybody Wins**

**Education — A new style of collaborative learning:**
**Investigating highly-motivating science content**
**Modeling scientific research**
**Analyzing data**
**Publishing and defending results**
**Reviewing results of others**
**Synthesizing findings**
**Using Grid tools and techniques**
**Computing resources**
**Data on the Grid**
**Systematized data analysis (metadata)**
**Collaboration tools**

## Everybody Wins

**Everybody Wins**

**Scientific Research and Computer Science Research**
**Non-traditional participants in the research process**
**Enriches collaboration in experimental, theoretical and computer science groups **
**Invigorates experiment and software design and construction**
**Invigorates beam tests, experiment operation, simulation studies, data analysis and publication**
**Potential students**
**Earlier key contacts**
**Means to reach underrepresented groups**
**Workforce development**
**Future research scientists and computer scientists**
**More than just scientists “do science” **
**Proactive response to the question, “Where are the Americans?”**
**Public support for scientific research**
**Goodwill Ambassadors for science**
**Funding and sustaining science initiatives (often long-term)**