# Presentation: 666283

## The QuarkNet Story

**The QuarkNet Story**

**Developing our “e-Lab” **
**for High School Students & Their Teachers**
**Marge Bardeen, Fermilab **
**Mike Wilde, Argonne & U. Chicago**

## LHC Education Commitment

**     “****Major discoveries like the Top Quark and antimatter make headlines on the front pages of the world's major newspapers. Whether readers fully appreciate the significance of these breakthroughs is another matter altogether. ****That is why this agreement places such a high priority on public education and outreach. Each of the U.S. detectors has named an education coordinator to its senior project management teams.**** You'll also see that the integration of research and education stands out as a primary objective and responsibility within the overall U.S. investment strategy—just as it now guides NSF's programming in general.”**
***      ******(at the signing of the LHC agreement)***

## Particle Physics Education & Outreach

**What are particle physicists**
**doing in education and outreach?**
**Survey  **
**FY96-97:  172 major activities **
**               **
**FY00-01:  255 major activities**

## 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**** **

## Physicists:
Michael Barnett, ATLAS Ed Coordinator
Randy Ruchti, CMS Ed Coordinator

Educator:
Marge Bardeen, Fermilab Ed Office

**Michael Barnett, ATLAS Ed Coordinator**
**Randy Ruchti, CMS Ed Coordinator**
**Educator:**
**Marge Bardeen, Fermilab Ed Office**

**QuarkNet Design Team**

## Physicists brought experience with:
Science.
Research.
Data.

Educator brought experience with:
High schools, students & teachers.
Education reform.
Best practice professional development.

**Science.**
**Research.**
**Data.**
**Educator brought experience with:**
**High schools, students & teachers.**
**Education reform.**
**Best practice professional development.**

**QuarkNet Design Team**

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

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

** ****physicists, 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**

## QuarkNet Infrastructure

**QuarkNet Infrastructure**

**48**** ****centers:**** 208**** ****mentors &**** ****474**** teachers**
**+ ****4**** new centers in FY04**

## 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 — 2 lead teachers
 One-week summer institute at Fermilab 
 Seven-week summer research appointments

Year 2  — 2 lead teachers and 10 assocaite teachers
 Three-week research-based summer institutes

Following Years
 One-week follow-on activities

QuarkNet Website

** ****One-week summer institute at Fermilab **
** ****Seven-week summer research appointments**
**    **
**Year 2****  ****— 2 lead teachers and 10 assocaite teachers**
** ****Three-week research-based summer institutes**
**    **
**Following Years**
** ****One-week follow-on activities**
**QuarkNet Website**

**Teacher Programs**

## Website

**Website**

**quarknet.fnal.gov**

**Online Data Delivery**

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

## New players bring virtual data tools & techniques. 

**Along Came Grids **

**New players bring virtual data tools & techniques.**** **

## 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.**

## Ceci n’est pas un Grid. 

***Ceci***** n’est pas *****un Grid*****. ******

**It’s an experiment—a scientific workstation—that gives**
**students the means to:**
**Discover and apply datasets, algorithms and data analysis methods.**
**Collaborate by developing new ones and sharing results and observations.**
**Learn data analysis methods that will ready and excite them for a scientific career.**
**And in later steps, we may actually use *****the***** Grid!**

## “Virtual Data Workstation”

**“****Virtual Data Workstation”**

**It’s just a web site! ******** . . . and more. 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.**

## QuarkNet e-Lab

**                      ****(Virtual data tools and techniques)**
**                                   ****V 1.0 ******** - Professional development**
**                                                  ****Collaboration meeting simulation**
**                                                  ****Test beam data**
**                                                  ****Data simulations**
**          ****V 2.0 pre-******** - HEP Data from the Grid**
**                                **
**Tools for “federation” with other physics experiments?**

**QuarkNet e-Lab**

## Development Team

**Development Team**

**Computing/Web/Design**
**M. Wilde - ANL & UC**
**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 - U of I**
**       ****E. Peryshkin - U of I**
**       ****Y. Wu - MIT**
**High School Students**
**       ****A. Bahal - IMSA**
**       ****J. Frankle - LaLumiere HS**
**       ****J. Shreve - LaLumiere HS**

## V 0.3 Science

**V 0.3 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**

## V 0.3 Experiments

**V 0.3 Experiments**

## V 0.3 Demo

**V 0.3 Demo**

**quarknet.fnal.gov/grid**

## 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**

**Science & Grid Computing**
**Test Bed**
**Research collaborators**
**Potential students**
**Future research scientists and computer scientists**
**Goodwill ambassadors**
**Public support**
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