1. COSM Education and Outreach: Where We Are Now Ken Cecire ken.cecire@hamptonu.edu

2. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Where We’ve Been QuarkNet Young Doctors Support/incubation of E&O efforts Outreach to Zambia

3. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University PI support: Keith Baker Ken McFarlane Staff support: Ken Cecire Outreach: Univ of Puerto Rico BNL/MARIACHI Advocacy: rural centers underserved centers Support for the National QuarkNet Program

4. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University The Hampton University QuarkNet Center Teachers from across the Commonwealth: Fairfax Richmond Northern Neck Hampton Roads Meetings at: Hampton University Science Museum of Va (Richmond) Local Schools

5. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University The Hampton University QuarkNet Center Continuing Initiatives: Assist JLab TAPS program Assist HU Young Doctors program Cosmic Ray Detector New Initiatives: MARIACHI (BNL) Collaboration with UMd

6. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Sample from COSM Summer 2005 Activities Information and Preference Form: Which of the activities below are you interested in participating in? Please rank-order … In VirginiaOutside Virginia ____help with HU Young Doctors program (middle school students) ____help with JLab TAPS program (middle school teachers) ____2-3 day QuarkNet/COSM workshop at HU ____create MARIACHI-type air shower array ____COSM-Zambia (2 weeks in July) ____Physics Emasondosondo (1 week in NY, 3 weeks in South Africa) ____QuarkNet Institute (1 week at Fermilab at the end of June) ____MARIACHI workshop at BNL (July 25-29)

7. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Hampton University Young Doctors Summer Science Camp Middle school summer day camp in science COSM teachers have participated since summer 2003 Offer hands-on activities: Physics of sports Physics of toys Fluid dynamics

8. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Jefferson Lab Teacher Academy in Physical Science (TAPS) Program for Middle School science teachers JLab Education Office Presentations by COSM teachers and HU students Topics include: sports physics radioactive decay

9. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Spinning Education, Outreach, and Research Together Support for: Student workshop at Univ of Puerto Rico QuarkNet reunions: SpacePart04 (12/04) Brookhaven (1/05) Clustering of UMd, BNL, Hampton QuarkNet centers New MARIACHI initiative PFC collaboration in E&O

10. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Dissemination Physics Today article, September 2004 AAPT Summer 2004 Meeting: Physics Education in Africa sessions AAPT Winter 2006 Meeting: follow-on session NSBP: video preview Students…

11. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University PFCs Collaborate! Share ideas and experience Professional growth Dissemination

12. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Where We’re Headed Increased involvement with Africa New proposals New collaboration More hard science Benefit rebound to Virginia and US

13. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University In one of my first workshops with my Zambian colleagues, a teacher said, “Our students have too little opportunity and yours have too much.” I’m still thinking about the implications of that remark. -- Charles Tisdale, The Bolles School, Florida (formerly of Princess Anne High School, Virginia)

14. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Outreach to Africa: New Twists, New Growth Zambia expedition 2004: visit Columbia group in SA increase workshops to 3 days documentary film Developments 2005: MARIACHI/SHARE involvement in SA student summer in Zambia

15. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Seeing how my Zambian peers present the concepts without technology has helped me to see how I can use a mix of low technology and high technology labs to reach the students. -- Lewis Fowler, Centreville High School

16. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Workshops 3 days more topical foundational material student talks more Zambian Student workshops (1/2 day) 2005: stayovers in Lusaka and Monze District Workshop Developments

17. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Having seen the need in Zambia, and being African, gives me a different perspective of science. -- Peter Muhoro, Hampton University physics student

18. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Because of COSM-Zambia, I see myself contributing to the scientific community on a global level…Zambia changed me. It gave me a deeper appreciation and understanding for the way we live as a society. -- Kristie Lee, Hampton University physics student

19. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University How the Benefits Bounce Back Experiences for: COSM/QN teachers HBCU physics students Young physicists Science: Data acquisition Collaboration Application: Minority students in US

20. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Having a basic concept of what life is like in other parts of the world has helped me understand some of my minority students better. -- Joseph Fehr, Centreville High School I have increased motivation to help persuade more minority students to take physics…I now have anecdotes from my experiences in Zambia to help them put things in perspective. -- Lewis Fowler, Centreville High School My time in Zambia gave me instant credibility with my one Zimbabwean student and her parents; particularly her father. -- Charles Merriam, Norfolk Academy

21. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Zambia 2004: Documentary by University of Chicago student U of C Arts grant Show collaboration between US and Zambian teachers Expected ready autumn 2005

22. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University I am able to produce…from waste product[s]…which can be used in the teaching and learning of science…Science goes on… -- Andrew Chimwanga, St. Mary’s Secondary School, Zambia in documentary preview

23. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Trailer and Demo Show visits SA township schools Collaboration with Univ of Witswatersrand and Guateng Province Becoming more SA COSM participation: 1 teacher, 2 students Physics Emasondosondo: Columbia Program in South Africa

24. Education and Outreach 22 March 2005 COSM Review at Hampton University Cosmic Ray Detectors in Africa and… Muhoro: Summer 2005 at Univ of Zambia to create air shower array SHARE: Southern Hemisphere Air shower Research and Exploration MARIACHI: Mixed Apparatus for Radio Investigation of Atmospheric Cosmic rays of High Ionization

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