Conveners
Education and Outreach: Session I - Premiere
- Miroslav Myska (Czech Technical University (CZ))
- Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))
Education and Outreach: Session II - Premiere
- Miroslav Myska (Czech Technical University (CZ))
- Marzena Lapka (CERN)
Education and Outreach: Session III - Premiere
- Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))
- Despina Hatzifotiadou (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Education and Outreach: Session IV - Premiere
- Marzena Lapka (CERN)
- Despina Hatzifotiadou (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Education and Outreach: Session III - Replay
- There are no conveners in this block
Education and Outreach: Session IV - Replay
- There are no conveners in this block
Education and Outreach: Session I - Replay
- There are no conveners in this block
Education and Outreach: Session II - Replay
- There are no conveners in this block
The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) is a network of scientists, science educators and communication specialists working across the globe in informal science education and outreach for particle physics. The primary methodology adopted by IPPOG requires the direct involvement of scientists active in current research with education and communication specialists, in order to...
Until recently, the International Masterclasses (IMC) in Particle Physics have been based on hands-on analysis of data from the four big LHC experiments. During the last years there has been a spectacular broadening in the physics scope of particle physics masterclasses, now including measurements with Belle II data, with data from neutrino experiments and a newly proposed masterclass on...
Netzwerk Teilchenwelt is a Germany-wide outreach program comprising 30 universities and research labs. About 150 researchers are involved, bringing cutting edge science into the classroom. 3500 high school students each year take the opportunity to work with original data from HEP experiments in special masterclasses or to study cosmic particles with detectors. On advanced levels, motivated...
Cosmic rays are a unique tool for introducing high-school students to particle physics concepts and methods; their detection and study, with a variety of cosmic ray experiments in schools, is an excellent way to acquaint them with the world of scientific research, motivate and inspire them. Cosmic-ray experiments in schools, using a variety of detector types and sizes, exist in many...
The Virtual Visit service run by the ATLAS Collaboration has been provided since 2010. The ATLAS Collaboration has used this popular and effective method to bring the excitement of scientific exploration and discovery into classrooms and other public places around the world. The programme, which uses a combination of video conferencing, webcasts, and video recording to communicate with remote...
Advances in information and communications technologies (ICTs) have given rise to innovative uses of web-based video tools for global communication, enhancing the impact of large research facilities, including their outreach and education programmes. As an example, the CMS Virtual Visits programme launched by the CMS collaborations at CERN, uses videoconferencing to communicate with schools...
For many HEP experiments the experimental area is difficult to access for visitors. That makes engaging the public difficult. This is true both for educational purposes and for outreach and media events. The use of the latest technologies in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 360 degree visualization helps the experiments in getting the public closer to their research. By...
Visualisation plays an important cognitive role in understanding and learning different facilities and processes in high energy physics experiments. It can synthesise Augmented Reality and Virtual Environment to create Mixed Reality Applications with detector descriptions and high-level interactions like gesture or touch controls, easy and minimalistic UI and Lego-like interactions with...
Four years after the deployment of the ATLAS public website using the Drupal 7 content management system, the ATLAS Education & Outreach group is in the process of migrating to the new CERN Drupal 8 infrastructure. We present lessons learned from the development, usage and evolution of the original web site, and how the choice of technology helped to shape and reinforce our communication...
CMS wishes to enable anyone to feel and interact with the gigantism of high energy experiments. For this purpose, we develop a light application downloadable on most smartphone that can render 3D and 360° immersive impression.
Thanks to existing developments of 3D representation of CMS (iSpy, CMS sketchup, 3D drawing of CMS cavern), we are already able to provide an application on specific...
Nowadays, detector display software applications are playing an important role in particle physics experiments. There is a wide range of different requirements for the application, starting from Outreach's virtual reality and education, to representation of physical events for the analysis. Another important requirement, coming from users, is an easy way to access applications, which means no...
There are some universally acknowledged problems in school sciences. Across the developed countries worldwide, young people are not interested in studying STEM-subjects. Whether that is because of perceived lack of personal relevance, disconnect from the actual fields of study, "sanitized" school practices or other factors is up to debate, but it is eminently clear that as educators we have to...
ATLAS is the first LHC collaboration releasing data recorded at 13 TeV centre-of- mass energy. Billions of real events that correspond to proton-proton collisions recorded in 2016 are accompanied by several orders of magnitude more events of simulated samples of Standard Model processes and New Physics hypothetical processes. We intend to show the development of this open educational project...
Since 2013, the University of Michigan has hosted a semester-long research program for undergraduate students at CERN. The students are selected from a diverse mix of small and large universities across the USA and are embedded as CERN Users in active research programs on experiments at the laboratory. The program is modeled on the highly successful NSF-funded Research Experience for...
The value of fundamental science, such as at the LHC, may be taken for granted by many engaged in this research. However, public awareness of the importance of both fundamental and applied science in their lives cannot be for granted. It has been alarming even in such countries as the United States, where science and technology have been strong historically, that new efforts are required to...
The OCRA (Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities) INFN program includes public engagement events related to astroparticle physics and in particular it coordinates the twenty INFN Units that participated in the 2019 edition of the International Cosmic Day (ICD), an astroparticle physics outreach event organized by DESY. The ICD is dedicated to high school students from all over the world, who engage in...
Less than five years have passed since the first detection of a gravitational-wave signal, on September 14th, 2015. Yet, the status of the field has changed drastically, with a growing number of detections made by a global network of ground-based interferometric detectors with unprecedented sensitivities and high duty cycles. A truly new window onto the Universe, symbolized by multi-messenger...
A core objective of the ATLAS Collaboration is the communication of the status and achievements of the ATLAS Experiment. ATLAS has tailored its communication strategy to match an ever-changing media landscape, producing content that effectively targets key audiences effectively across multiple platforms. The most recent additions and improvements to ATLAS communications strategy are explored,...
According to the Global Digital Report 2020, social media active users reach 49% of the world population, with an annual growth of 9%. Due to the penetration of social media in everyday life, many scientific collaborations and institutions are present on different social media platforms and recognize the role they play in reaching a wider audience. Social media engagement can positively...
The rapid economic growth is building new trends in careers. Almost every domain, including high-energy physics, needs people with strong capabilities in programming. In this evolving environment, it is highly desirable that young people are equipped with computational thinking (CT) skills, such as problem-solving and logical thinking, as well as the ability to develop software applications...
Educational games and activities have proven benefits for achieving learning objectives. They motivate competition, provide immediate rewards for success, and encourage collaborative, problem-based learning - all while framed as a fun activity, rather than laborious task. An overview of ATLAS educational games is given, including: “Making a Splash”, a water-balloon game teaching the physics of...
The experimental area of the Trento Proton Therapy Center (Italy) is a experimental area devoted to research on particle physics sensors and biophysics. In this area particle physics sensors can be tested with a proton beam with a energy range between 70 and 130 MeV.
This area is also specially suitable for education initiatives addressed to both students or general public because in this...
Since 1984 the Italian groups of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), collaborating with the DOE laboratory of Fermilab (US) have been running a two-month summer training program for Italian university students. While in the first year the program involved only four physics students of the University of Pisa, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. This...
Spreading interest in physics among high-school students is crucial for course and career choices. When investigating interest in science, previous studies focused on four aspects: interesting contents (e.g. mechanics), contexts (e.g. biological), tasks (e.g. conduct an experiment), and learning environments (e.g. Science Centre).
Overall, researchers agree that when trying to arouse...
A study aiming to measure the impact of CERN and of its environment on the career of people who worked at the laboratory was requested by CERN's Director General and was carried out by the authors. The study and the results have recently been documented in a CERN Yellow Report, CERN-2019-004. The mandate, the methodology followed, the on-line questionnaires used, the analysis of the data...
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is collecting unprecedented amounts of proton–proton collision data. The ATLAS Collaboration analyses these data, seeking to give answers to questions that have puzzled particle physicists for many decades now. In this process, the Standard Model is being precisely measured and searches for new physics are performed in sophisticated and clever...
The Large Hadron Collider and its detectors are currently stopped and are benefiting from upgrade and renovation work. This period, called the “long shutdown”, has started at the end of 2018 and will end in May 2021. This maintenance break is an exceptional opportunity to open CERN’s facilities to the public allowing curious minds to discover groundbreaking technologies, have fun with physics...
The ALICE Collaboration uses a multitude of methods to reach out to the public. Visits of the experiment, both underground during LHC shutdown and of the new ALICE exhibition, are among the most important outreach activities. During the CERN Open Days in September 2019, 4600 persons visited the ALICE cavern and part of the LHC tunnel; in addition, a variety of activities were organized at LHC...
A novel approach to science communication is presented, using cake to explain particle physics ideas to engage new audiences. This talk will present a public engagement strategy where baking has been used to engage the general public, in events such as the CERN Open Days in 2019, and using online platforms such as social media. This innovative approach using the juxtaposition of cake and...
Scientific developments have seen reality dissolved into smaller and
smaller invisible particles that the physicist has to make
visible. This journey, from something hidden to something revealed, is
mirrored by the artist attempting to express thoughts and emotions
through the manipulation of materials in visual arts, or the movements
of the human body in dance. This -- potentially...
“Cultural Collisions” is a cross-disciplinary science and art engagement and networking program with special emphasis on educational methodologies. It is designed to trigger curiosity, creativity, and foster critical thinking in school students to help them overcome the scientific and technological challenges of the 21st century.
The Cultural Collisions format has been implemented and tested...
A team based around CERN in Geneva has organised public engagement and education activities at a variety of non-scientific venues. The core team now brands itself the Big Bang Collective, and local partners are engaged in each case, bringing in local knowledge and expertise. The principle recurring festivals that have been targeted are the WOMAD Festival (Charlton Park, UK, since 2016), joined...
From Kepler to Einstein, Dirac and Weinberg (to name a few), most physicists believed that the ultimate explanation of the Universe must possess beauty. For some of them, beauty of the physical laws was as important as truth. Over the last few years, however, we hear more from dissenting voices fueled by the no new physics results at the LHC, which claim that we have been led astray by...
