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U.S. Education and Outreach Activities
… a selection of initiatives
• Fermilab Tour Area Initiative
• EPO in the Pierre Auger Observatory, Mendoza Province, Argentina
• The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska, and its
affiliates
• QuarkNet
• The DPF Education and Outreach Committee
• World Year of Physics 2005 in the U.S.
Gregory R. Snow
University of Nebraska
EPOG Meeting
10 October 2003
Fermilab Tour Area Initiative
• Labwide initiative to enhance
visitor experiences at Fermilab
• Coordinated by Office of
Public Affairs
Feynman Computing
Center
CDF
DØ
Wilson Hall
Lederman Education
Center + new
Visitor Center
Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone
• External architecture and
design firms enlisted to
facilitate common look to
several satellite Tour Areas
• $5 Million master plan
presented to Directorate
in July 2003
• Prototype Tour Areas
constructed/assembled for
August 2003 Lepton-Photon
Conference at the lab
DZERO Tour Area
Run I and II detector displays, posters
Huge screen on shielding wall for projected images
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Live event displays from control room
Opening for Lepton-Photon Conference
The Pierre Auger Observatory
Northern Hemisphere:
Millard County, USA
Construction starts
in 2005
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Southern Hemisphere:
Malargüe
Province of Mendoza
Argentina
Being constructed now
1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site
The Pierre Auger Observatory
Status of Argentina site
• 150 out of 1600 surface detectors installed
• 2 out of 4 fluorescence telescope buildings
complete
• Southern Hemisphere site complete 2005
• Extremely impressive air showers have
been observed with partial array
Northern Hemisphere site
• Construction to start in 2006
• Likely site in Millard County, Utah
Setting in Argentina
• 6000 people in remote small town Malargüe
• Auger collaboration presence quite noticeable
• Positive impact desired at many levels
• Education/outreach activities organized in a
distinct subtask led by G. Snow
• Example: tanks carry names provided by
local school students
This shower hit 20 surface tanks !
10 kilometers,
or the size
of a city
Energy 6.3  1019 eV
Zenith angle,
almost
horizontal
Goals of the Education/Outreach Task
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Use the Auger Observatory and international collaboration to enhance
science literacy and technology skills in the regions of the Auger sites
and internationally
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Increase public awareness and support for basic research in physics,
astrophysics, and all areas of science
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Encourage and support a wide range of education/outreach projects
which link schools, community groups, and the public with the
science and scientists of the Auger Observatory
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Provide technical and non-technical information on Auger to a wide
range of audiences – students, public, government officials, scientific
colleagues
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Recruit and encourage the participation of groups underrepresented
in science in Auger education/outreach activities
• Education efforts receive
support and emphasis on par
with main scientific work
• Paper submitted to 2001
International Cosmic Ray
Conference, Hamburg
Public Lectures in Malargüe
• Nightly science talks given to student and
adult groups during collaboration meetings
• Total attendance 700
Auger collaboration participates
in Malargüe 50th Anniversary Parade
November 2000
Assembly Building Inauguration
and Open House, November 2000
Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
Central communications
radio tower
Data Acquisition
Visitor Center
Auger Center Building Inauguration
October 2001
Visitor Center at Auger Office Building
Glass cabinet for
library and displays
Overhead projector, screen,
podium
PC, VCR, receiver
in cabinet
Multimedia
projector
Shutters painted blue,
refurbished models, speakers
Visitor Center in Auger Center Building
Over 700 people toured Visitor Center after inauguration
4250 visitors January 2002 – April 2003
Close Contact with Malargüe Schools
Collaborators help with local student science projects
Three students place 11th (out of 300) in Mendoza Science Fair
with their Auger exhibit and accompanying posters
Auger collaboration members present frequent courses for local science teachers
Rebeca Lopez (Mexico) explains hands-on
optics experiments to Malargüe teachers
Malargüe teachers demonstrate their
own experiments to other teachers
Rebeca Lopez presenting hands-on course to
teachers in General Alvear, 200 km from Malargüe
Beatriz García (UTN Mendoza) presents an astronomy
course to Malargüe teachers
Eureka Science Park in Mendoza
Parque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
• Official opening November 2003
• Outside: 2 Mexican SD tanks outdoors with explanatory signs
• Inside: Italian FD prototype from Los Leones, posters, brochures, PC with
interactive activities
Eureka Science Park in Mendoza
Parque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
Poster 4
Poster 3
Poster 2
Poster 1
• 4 posters on self-supporting stands as shown
Eureka Science Park in Mendoza
Parque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
3 Posters
4 Posters
2 PCs against wall
Eureka Science Park in Mendoza
Parque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
• Interior space reserved for Fluorescence Detector mirror assembly
Argentina’s 2nd Planetarium in Malargüe
• City of Malargüe constructing building
• Collaboration funding the interior
Other Public Relations Activities
US Ambassador to Argetina, James Walsh
(2nd from left), with Mantsch and Watson at
Auger reception, US Embassy in Buenos Aires
Jim Cronin being interviewed for the Buenos Aires
television program, “Mateando con la Ciencia”
U.S. Congressional reception for NSF-funded science projects June 2001
Cronin and Snow with Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (NY),
Chair of House Science Committee