Discover the Cosmos Birmingham meeting Sept 19 th – 20 th 2012 Activities in Birmingham UK September 2011– September 2012 Lynne Long, University of Birmingham, UK

Activities: September September 2012 In the first year of the DtC project, UoB has - in collaboration with UoG and LJM, organised and delivered 1 visionary workshop to ~ 26 high school teachers & advisors from all over the UK, feeding back comments etc at the DtC meeting in Athens in April 2012

Activities: September September organised and run 3 masterclasses involving ~ 200 AS students and teachers from the wider local area, introducing ideas of inquiry based teaching and using the Minerva Tool on the portal - organised and run a Summer School for ~ 50 AS students from High Schools all over the UK, where one of the practical activities involved using the Minerva software analysis tool

Activities: September September ran interactive stands at 4 big national events (London, Poole, Sheffield, Vale of Glamorgan) involving 10s of thousands of members of the public

Activities: September September organised a Particle Physics Experience Day for ~ 24 GCSE students in the wider local area, using cloud chambers and cosmic ray telescopes and displaying their data in posters by the end of the day – trialling demonstrator activities…….

Posters produced

Activities: September September attended 4 international conferences, involving ~ 125 researchers, teachers & outreach specialists, in CERN, Innsbruck and Istanbul - organised and took part in a meeting of national partners from UoG, LJM & UoC to plan implementation activities and training workshops in months of the DtC project.

Activities planned so far September 2012 – September 2013 International Cosmic Ray Day – Sept 26 th Hands on group activities with ~ 20 teachers and school students using cosmic ray telescope demonstrator, reporting data back to quarknet project Particle physics training (practice & reflection) workshop – Nov 28 th 2012 (TBC) - Hands on activities with ~ teachers from across the UK, using cloud chambers, cosmic ray telescopes and Minerva analysis tool – testing the demonstrators & collecting validation data. Teacher training workshop at ASE conference in reading in Jan 2013 – Talk & hands on use of Minerva analysis tool More student masterclasses/summer school Summative workshop for teachers in collaboration with UoG, LJM & UoC.