Join us for the 6th workshop, the first focused on education and pedagogy using the CMS experiment's open data. Over three days, we'll host tutorials and hacking sessions to create new, usable K-12 or college classroom products.
Since 2014, the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has released data publicly via the CERN Open Data Portal. This workshop will cover these datasets and their underlying physics. We want your input on making this data classroom-useful. We want you to help create resources, during the workshop, to share with other teachers.
All exercises will be hands-on and participants should be prepared to dive into the data right away. A set of pre-exercises will be provided and encouraged for participants so that they can make the most of the workshop.
Participants and facilitators will be working together to create full-fledged or lo-fidelity prototypes of lessons, activities, and datasets for high school, undergraduate, or graduate coursework.
Day 1 (Tues, July 28 - 9am-5pm ET). Facilitators will lecture about the physics that we study at the LHC and what is in and how to access these datasets.
Day 2 (Wed, July 29 - 9am-5pm ET). Participants will primarily work on their own or in groups to brainstorm, sketch out, and create pedagogical tools to share with each other and the broader community.
Day 3 (Thur, July 30 - 9am-3pm ET). Participants share their work and ideas!
If you are interested in bringing this science to your classroom but you are not familiar with programming or particle physics, that's OK. We want ideas and enthusiasm!
Zoom links will be provided and remote participants are encouraged to engage throughout the workshop.
A limited number of travel grants of up to $500 are available for in-person participants.
You can apply for these when you fill out the registration form.
Tutorials and pre-exercises...coming soon!
Organizing Committee:
Matt Bellis (Siena University)
Julie Hogan (Bethel University)
Clemens Lange (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Kati Lassila-Perini (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
Thomas McCauley (Notre Dame)
Local Organizing Committee:
Ken Cecire (Notre Dame & QuarkNet)
Abhisek Datta (Notre Dame)
Michael Hildreth (Notre Dame)
Colin Jessop (Notre Dame)
Kevin Lannon (Notre Dame)
Marc Osherson (Notre Dame)
Mitchell Wayne (Notre Dame)
Shane Wood (Notre Dame & QuarkNet)
Facilitators:
Emily Rensch (Siena University)
Pablo Saiz (CERN)
Katie Salvatore (Siena University)