1 Planning for the 7. International Masterclasses “Hands on Particle Physics“ 27th EPPOG outreach meeting, CERN, Uta Bilow

2 Participation 2010 (2009)  18 (17) days, 3 weeks  91 (82) students masterclasses  84 (79) institutes 12 new institutes  France: Strasbourg, Grenoble, Marseille  Spain: CIEMAT Madrid, IFT Madrid  Switzerland: Geneva, CERN  Germany: Tübingen  Italy: Roma La Sapienza  Portugal: Minho, Braganca, Vila Real  + U.S. subprogram  + local masterclasses  Interest for 2011 (so far): Odense (DK), Bologna, Lecce (IT), Jerusalem, Rehovot (IL)  + few more institutes in U.S.

3 Participation 2010  Estimated number of students: 6000  Again: large interest and growth 2011 ?

4 Participation 2010 Additional Teachers days in:  Vienna  Innsbruck  Louvain-la-Neuve  Sao Paulo  Copenhagen  Berlin  Göttingen  Dresden  Athens  Roma  Frascati  Madrid Might be important for funding  encourage institutes

5  Central organisation at Dresden  Michael Kobel  Uta Bilow  Sebastian Wahrmund (website) student assistant  Tatjana Sereda (secretary)  Steering Committee  Central Organisation: Michael Kobel, Uta Bilow  US-Organisation: Ken Cecire  EPPOG: Dave Barney?  Moderators: N.N.  EVO Team: Marek Domaracky?  National Organisation  Contact persons in each country  Local responsibles for each institute Organisation Team

6 Funding and in kind contributions  Helmholtz-Alliance: Project manager (1/2 time; until end of 2012)  Wolfgang-Gentner studentship for Konrad Jende (PhD thesis, ending 2012)  BMBF: upgrade for LHC (development, technical needs, test, translation, CD/DVD, student assistants; ending 2012)  EPS HEP division (production and shipping of CD)  CERN IT:  Marek Domaracky, CALTECH (CERN)  Philippe Galvez, EVO Project Manager (CERN IT)  CERN outreach (prizes)  Moderators

7 Period I  Boundary conditions:  no school holidays  no ATLAS/CMS week  daylight saving time period U.S. (starts 13.3.); EU:  transcontinental video conferences  Doodle with 30 participants: clear preference for 3 weeks from 7.3. –  Period: 7.3. –  + few more days (5.3./4.3.)? (growth!)

8 Period II 7.3. – : Includes 8.3.! = International Women´s Day “International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.“ 8 March 2010: Women´s Day at CERN  Let´s have a Masterclasses Women´s Day

9 Exercises 2011  New LHC package with ATLAS and CMS  W-path and Z-path  Status: Marge, Konrad, Ken  + ALICE (extra day)?  Exercises on CD/DVD and web  Translation  help of national responsibles needed (Nov/Dec/Jan)  use of real data: underlies restrictions

10 Video session I  better technical quality in 2010  Institutes well prepared, although only few previous EVO-tests (due to large workload of CERN IT)

11 Video session II  Teachers lab with nice background can be used again  Duration 60 min, often longer due to students´ questions  Start with Q&A, prepared by institutes  Collect results beforehand, transmission of results via spreadsheet on google docs worked well  Quiz with new questions  Local prizes for each site (CERN shirts)  Moderators: do a very good and admirable job, although not easy (find appropriate language for students, speak slowly, encourage students, handle up to 6 sites)  have a large team to keep the workload balanced, have them well prepared by ~ 1 hour introduction onsite

12 Website  relaunch  new webmaster: Sebastian Wahrmund (ending Feb 2011)

13 Evaluation  Konrad Jende, PhD student at CERN  New pedagogical concept for LHC masterclasses  Evaluation 2010, will be continued  Frank Meier, PhD student from Zürich  Plans for 2011 still unclear, continue with other person?