U.S. Education and Outreach Activities

1. 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

2. Fermilab Tour Area Initiative • Labwide initiative to enhance • visitor experiences at Fermilab • Coordinated by Office of • Public Affairs • 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 Feynman Computing Center CDF DØ Wilson Hall Lederman Education Center + new Visitor Center Also NuMI/MINOS and MiniBoone

3. DZERO Tour Area Run I and II detector displays, posters Live event displays from control room Opening for Lepton-Photon Conference Huge screen on shielding wall for projected images

4. The Pierre Auger Observatory Northern Hemisphere: Millard County, USA Construction starts in 2005 Southern Hemisphere: Malargüe Province of Mendoza Argentina Being constructed now 1600 detectors, 3000 km2 each site

5. 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

6. This shower hit 20 surface tanks ! Zenith angle, almost horizontal 10 kilometers, or the size of a city Energy 6.3  1019 eV

7. Goals of the Education/Outreach Task • Use the Auger Observatory and international collaboration to enhance • science literacy and technology skills in the regions of the Auger sites • and internationally • Increase public awareness and support for basic research in physics, • astrophysics, and all areas of science • 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 • Provide technical and non-technical information on Auger to a wide • range of audiences – students, public, government officials, scientific • colleagues • Recruit and encourage the participation of groups underrepresented • in science in Auger education/outreach activities

8. Education efforts receive • support and emphasis on par • with main scientific work • Paper submitted to 2001 • International Cosmic Ray • Conference, Hamburg

9. Public Lectures in Malargüe • Nightly science talks given to student and • adult groups during collaboration meetings • Total attendance 700

10. Auger collaboration participatesin Malargüe 50th Anniversary ParadeNovember 2000

11. Assembly Building Inaugurationand Open House, November 2000

12. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building Central communications radio tower Data Acquisition Visitor Center

13. Auger Center Building InaugurationOctober 2001

14. Visitor Center at Auger Office Building Overhead projector, screen, podium Glass cabinet for library and displays PC, VCR, receiver in cabinet Multimedia projector Shutters painted blue, refurbished models, speakers

15. Visitor Center in Auger Center Building Over 700 people toured Visitor Center after inauguration 4250 visitors January 2002 – April 2003

16. Close Contact with Malargüe Schools

17. 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

18. Auger collaboration members present frequent courses for local science teachers Rebeca Lopez (Mexico) explains hands-on optics experiments to Malargüe 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 Malargüe teachers demonstrate their own experiments to other teachers

19. Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque 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

20. Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Poster 4 Poster 3 Poster 2 Poster 1 • 4 posters on self-supporting stands as shown

21. Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología 3 Posters 4 Posters 2 PCs against wall

22. Eureka Science Park in MendozaParque de la Ciencia y la Tecnología • Interior space reserved for Fluorescence Detector mirror assembly

23. Argentina’s 2nd Planetarium in Malargüe • City of Malargüe constructing building • Collaboration funding the interior

24. 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