COSM Education and Outreach: Where We Are Now

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

2. Where We’ve Been • QuarkNet • Young Doctors • Support/incubation of E&O efforts • Outreach to Zambia

3. Support for the National QuarkNet Program • PI support: • Keith Baker • Ken McFarlane • Staff support: • Ken Cecire • Outreach: • Univ of Puerto Rico • BNL/MARIACHI • Advocacy: • rural centers • underserved centers

4. 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. 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. Sample from COSM Summer 2005 Activities Information and Preference Form:Which of the activities below are you interested in participating in? Please rank-order …

7. 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. 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. 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. 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. PFCs Collaborate! • Share ideas and experience • Professional growth • Dissemination

12. Where We’re Headed • Increased involvement with Africa • New proposals • New collaboration • More hard science • Benefit rebound to Virginia and US

13. 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. 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. 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. Workshop Developments • Workshops 3 days • more topical • foundational material • student talks • more Zambian • Student workshops (1/2 day) • 2005: stayovers in Lusaka and Monze District

17. Having seen the need in Zambia, and being African, gives me a different perspective of science. -- Peter Muhoro, Hampton University physics student

18. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Physics Emasondosondo: Columbia Program in South Africa • 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

24. 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