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Northern Site Education and Outreach

Northern Site Education and Outreach. Contacts already made with schools Solidifying, establishing school partnerships Other Colorado cosmic ray outreach Program of SE Colorado outreach programs Funding a Northern Site outreach program. Start of Northern Site Outreach Efforts.

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Northern Site Education and Outreach

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  1. Northern Site Education and Outreach • Contacts already made with schools • Solidifying, establishing school partnerships • Other Colorado cosmic ray outreach • Program of SE Colorado outreach programs • Funding a Northern Site outreach program

  2. Start of Northern Site Outreach Efforts • J. Harton, G. Snow met with Southeast Colorado Board of • School Administrators to discuss teacher and student • projects, 1 September 2004 • All parties expressed an interest in establishing outreach • programs connected to Auger science and scientists

  3. Schools Visited / Town Meetings School visits Lamar Las Animas McClave Wiley Springfield Town meetings Lamar Springfield Las Animas Initial contact made with schools and communities

  4. $5K from Colorado governor to seed Auger outreach in Colorado • Portable beeping Geiger counter display • Purchasing 3 of these for use in SE Colorado schools • Also plan to fund a scintillator array at one school • fashioned after Univ. of Nebraska CROP project

  5. Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska

  6. 26 Participating Nebraska High Schools

  7. Summer 2005 CROP Workshop at UNL Array of all detectors from all CROP high schools at the University

  8. Installation at one school in the next several months Lamar Data acquisition cards in short supply Upcoming proposal for Phase II of CROP – statewide expansion – can include SE Colorado extension

  9. SALTA: Snowmass Area Large Time-Coincidence Array • Colorado • Aspen High School, Aspen, CO • Basalt High School, Basalt, CO • Roaring Fork Valley High School, • Carbondale, CO • Lake County High School, • Leadville, CO • The highest-elevation school • in the U.S. -- 10,152 feet ASL • Illinois • Wheaton North High School, • Wheaton, IL

  10. The Henderson Mine Project Henderson Mine (Empire, CO) is one of two finalist sites under consideration for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory to be anchored by the Underground Neutrino Observatory SALTA detectors used to measure cosmic ray background rates underground. SALTA students moved detectors to underground locations. Data was collected September 29 - December 8, 2004 monitoring 4 locations 2800-3900 feet below the surface. Students are analyzing data to prepare a report on cosmic ray muon rates as a function of depth. http://crop.unl.edu/claes/SALTA/HendersonProject.html

  11. A program of SE Colorado outreach … to be fleshed out with lots of input from the Colorado collaborating institutions • World-class visitor center at Lamar C.C. • complex • Series of public lectures • Public events – telescope viewings • Frequent visits to schools • Research projects for physics classes • Joining the growing high school cosmic ray • research network (CROP connection) • Science fair projects/entries • Teacher professional development programs • Programs targeting Spanish speaking community

  12. Funding a Northern Site outreach program • I believe the basic question is whether the • collaboration: • Proposes an outreach program as part of the • main Auger science/detector proposal(s) • Submits a stand-alone outreach proposal, as • I have seen for HiRes, IceCube, …

  13. Final remark Plans for Northern Site outreach should be integrated in the planning and proposal process for the Northern Auger Observatory

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