Education and Public Outreach at the Soudan Underground Lab

苏丹地下实验室的教育和公共宣传

• 批准号: 0855647
• 负责人: Richard Gran
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota Duluth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Public; Outreach; Soudan; Underground

With this award funds are provided for partial support of the public outreach program at the Soudan Mine Underground Laboratory, the country's only operational underground high energy particle physics and astrophysics facility. The Lab is hosted in a Minnesota State Park, where each year about 4,000 of the Park's visitors venture 2,341 feet underground to see the facility, the MINOS and CDMS-II experiments, and to learn about neutrinos and Dark Matter. The proposed work is for two high school science teachers and two undergraduate interns to work in the lab over the summer, and an outreach coordinator who will contribute year round. Their primary duty is to help give the twice-daily "physics tours" and explain the lab and the science to visitors of the park. They then use this experience and their science education skills to improve the lab's outreach program and develop lesson plans and educational materials for use by the many school groups which visit the lab on field trips during the school year. They also participate in research projects with the experiments in the lab including MINOS and CDMS. The funds will also support the annual Open House. Most years since 1989, the lab has been open, free to the community at large for a day in the spring. Special displays are set up and hundreds of visitors are shown around the lab by the participating scientists. This gives the lab a high, positive profile in the community as well as share the science. The posters and educational materials developed are available on the website and used throughout the year.

该奖项的资金将用于部分支持苏丹矿井地下实验室的公共外展计划，该实验室是该国唯一运营的地下高能粒子物理和天体物理设施。该实验室位于明尼苏达州立公园内，每年约有 4,000 名公园游客冒险进入地下 2,341 英尺的地方参观该设施、MINOS 和 CDMS-II 实验，并了解中微子和暗物质。拟议的工作是让两名高中科学教师和两名本科生实习生在夏天在实验室工作，以及一名外展协调员将全年贡献力量。他们的主要职责是帮助进行每天两次的“物理之旅”，并向公园的游客解释实验室和科学。然后，他们利用这些经验和科学教育技能来改进实验室的外展计划，并制定课程计划和教育材料，供学年期间参观实验室进行实地考察的许多学校团体使用。他们还参与实验室实验的研究项目，包括 MINOS 和 CDMS。这些资金还将支持年度开放日。自 1989 年以来的大多数年份，该实验室都会在春季向广大社区免费开放一天。参与的科学家们设置了特殊的展示，并带领数百名参观者参观实验室。这使该实验室在社区中享有较高的积极形象并分享科学成果。制作的海报和教育材料可在网站上获取并全年使用。