Conveners
Education and Outreach
- Laura Bandiera (INFN Ferrara)
Education and Outreach
- Laura Bandiera (INFN Ferrara)
- Freya Blekman (DESY & University of Hamburg)
Education and Outreach
- Tapan Nayak (NISER, Bhubaneswar, India and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Education and Outreach
- Tapan Nayak (NISER, Bhubaneswar, India and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Education and Outreach
- Gwenhael de Wasseige (UCLouvain)
Education and Outreach
- Gwenhael de Wasseige (UCLouvain)
HEPscape is an escape room about high energy physics. The project has been designed and created by researches from the National Institute of Physics in Rome with the support of Sapienza, University of Rome.
Escape rooms for learning purposes are more and more frequent nowadays. HEPscape represents, based on the knowledge of the authors, the first particle physics escape room ever built so...
This contribution presents “The Hidden Force. Women Scientists in Physics and in History”, where the lives of four twentieth-century female scientists, who overcame the stereotypes of their era, invite us to discover the importance of women's contributions to the advancement of knowledge. This is actually more than a theatre play for science outreach, it is a project to nurture a dialog with...
The Extreme Energy Events Project (EEE) represented since its starting phases in 2005 a breakthrough in outreach activities in High Energy Physics. The innovative idea of EEE is a strong and direct involvement of high school students in the construction and operation of an experiment to measure Extensive Atmospheric Showers (EAS) on Earth surface.
The EEE Project is based on an array of...
GRaffa is a project designed and carried out by the Associazione Giovanile Le Scie Fisiche, funded by Lazio Region, with the aim of sharing the excitement of science and increasing appreciation for it, mainly through daily experiences of physical phenomena. It was conceived by young physics and philosophy researchers (mainly postdocs and PhD students) to spread physics and scientific culture...
Gravity is, by far, one of the scientific themes that have most piqued the curiosity of scientists and philosophers over the centuries. From Aristotle to Einstein, from Hawking to now on, scientists have always put a creative effort to solve the main puzzles of the understanding of our universe: why do things move, the birth of the cosmos, dark matter, and dark energy are just a few examples...
In 2016 INFN created a National Committee to coordinate third missione activities. One of its aim was to improve the quality of its local outreach activities. INFN results for VQR (the Italian national exercise to evaluate research quality)2011-2014 showed a clear difference in the quality of outreach activities organized by the Communication Office, and -despite the enthusiasm of the people...
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 public engagement. The primary methodology adopted by IPPOG employs the direct involvement of scientists active in current research with education and communication specialists, in order to effectively...
Since 1984 the Italian groups of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and Italian Universities, 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...
Mexico has participated in CMS masterclasses since 2014 . These masterclasses have grown since then, albeit with some interruption due to the recent pandemic. The authors discuss the experience of CMS masterclasses in Mexico, the practices that enabled them to thrive, and the U.S. - Mexico collaboration that has aided their success. They also examine how students and teachers have benefited...
Particle physics is a field which is full of striking visuals: from Feynman diagrams to event displays, there is no shortage of colourful high-contrast shapes and designs to capture the imagination. Can these visuals be used to reach out to budding scientists from their very earliest days? This talk will describe the development of the "Particle Physics for Babies" children's book, a concept...
INFN Kids is a national outreach initiative carried out within the INFN's third mission activities. It is dedicated to children of primary and middle schools ages in both formal and informal contexts. It aims at creating engagement and at stimulating curiosity about physics in young children not only in schools, with the support and the mediation of their teachers, but also in everyday life....
The ATLAS Collaboration has developed a variety of printables for education and outreach activities. We present two ATLAS Colouring Books, the ATLAS Fact Sheets, the ATLAS Physics Cheat Sheets, and ATLAS Activity Sheets. These materials are intended to cover key topics of the work done by the ATLAS Collaboration and the physics behind the experiment for a broad audience of all ages and levels...
In the last two years various existing public outreach activities in ALICE have been adapted for use in an online format, this includes e.g. the well established particle physics masterclasses but also virtual visits to ALICE. In this context an online workshop took place in 2021 with the goal to design a LEGO model of the ALICE detector in minifigure scale (ca. 1:40) and to motivate young...
The onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020 stopped all outreach and educational activities with in-person participation. The ALICE collaboration soon adapted to the new situation imposed by lockdowns and other restrictions. The multitude of online tools and platforms available allowed us to continue reaching out to the public. In-person visits and talks were replaced by virtual visits and...
International Masterclasses (IMC) is a program to engage high school students in authentic one-day particle physics analysis experiences at universities and laboratories worldwide. The program is run under the aegis of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG). The COVID pandemic created challenges for IMC in trying to reach the participants and excite them about cutting-edge...
Physics, especially Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics, is a complex theme to tell kids, because it is very far away from their everyday life and from traditional school subjects. Nevertheless, to answer the demand of materials to support distance learning during the pandemic, the INFN Communications Office widened its activities with interactive live streaming events and online workshops for...
The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, built to study the physics of highest-energy cosmic rays, has a tremendous emotional appeal given the Pampa Amarilla environment at 1400 m asl in Mendoza, coupled with the aura of a pioneering experiment that explores the Universe. Here, we present some of the Outreach, Education, and Communication programmes carried out within the international...
The Bruno Touschek Visitor Centre is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the evolution of particle physics, playing a central role in the popularization of science initiatives conducted at INFN Frascati National Laboratory (LNF). The centre was conceived as a public engagement hub to involve people with the main discoveries and the latest developments in technology and research fields...
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) was founded in 1971 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it has been very difficult to conduct in-person outreach activities as we had envisioned, but we have responded by moving some of our programs online.
In this talk, I would like to report on some of the innovations and difficulties we...
CERN is currently preparing Science Gateway, a new facility for scientific education and outreach that will open in summer 2023. Besides inspirational exhibition spaces, science shows and online education activities, Science Gateway will feature educational labs for hands-on scientific experiments for audiences aged 5 - 105. The design principles of Science Gateway’s education activities aim...
Communicating the science and achievements of the ATLAS Experiment is a core objective of the ATLAS Collaboration. This talk will explore the range of communication strategies adopted in ATLAS communications, with particular focus on how these have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, an overview of ATLAS’ digital communication platforms will be given – with focus on social...
In 2018, the CMS Collaboration decided to start releasing 500-1000 word popular science articles that describe the collaboration's scientific publications. This talk summarises the experience and impact of the CMS briefings effort.
Twenty years ago an ambitious and ground breaking project was born within the INFN community with the aim to popularize physics using a web portal.
In these years students and the lay public were engaged with the hottest topics of modern research in particle and nuclear physics, astroparticle and theoretical physics.
Since the beginning, “ScienzaPerTutti” (*) has evolved in many different...
This seminar presents the ASIMOV Prize for scientific publishing, born in Italy in 2016.
The Prize aims to bring the young generations closer to scientific culture, through the critical reading of popular science books. The books are selected by a committee that includes scientists, professors, Ph.D. and Ph.D. students, writers, journalists and friends of culture, and most importantly, over...
In April 1960, the late Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, piloted his Heron airplane to Geneva for an informal visit to CERN. Having toured the laboratory’s brand new “25 GeV” Proton Synchrotron, he turned to his host, president of the CERN Council François de Rose, and asked: “What have you got in mind for the future? Having built this machine, what next?” De Rose replied that...
The laboratory section included with the introductory Physics and Astronomy courses provide a student with the practical experience and initial laboratory skills that would be further honed by higher level courses. The quality and variety of that experience as well as the practical applicability are important.
Since the start of the current pandemic and restrictions on lab sessions (later...
The communities of astrophysics, astronomers and high energy physicists have been pioneers in establishing Virtual Research and Learning Networks (VRLCs)[1] generating international productive consortiums in virtual research environments and forming the new generation of scientists. In this talk we will discuss one in particular: LA-CoNGA Physics (Latin American alliance for Capacity buildiNG...
Art & Science across Italy is an INFN/CERN project for the Italian High School students (16-18 y.o.). More than 10.000 students joined since the 2016.
Creativity and vision capability are common to many disciplines and are involved in artistic and scientific thinking and activities. Scientists and artists are often asked to see and think beyond the perceivable reality, to imagine aspects of...
The remarkable similarity in the creative processes of science and art provides a unique basis for innovative collaborations between particle physics and fine art developing approaches to enthuse young people regarding STEAM subjects.
“The Sketchbook and the Collider'' is an art|science collaboration and it has developed into an evolving, travelling package of art exhibitions and...
Abstract
Stavros Katsanevas
Director European Gravitational Observatory
Coordinator REINFORCE
I will report on REINFORCE (REsearch INfrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe, 2019-2022) coordinated by the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 SWAFS program. It has developed demonstrator projects in the leading citizen-science platform,...
In recent years, crowdfunding platforms have gained popularity as a way to raise funds for various endeavors. This talk discusses the use of crowdfunding as a non-traditional way to finance physics outreach projects. Such tools can provide much needed flexibility to projects and serve as a platform to spread the word about your project. The talk is based on first-hand experience using such...
Following the first “Sustainable HEP” Workshop, hosted virtually by CERN 28 – 30 June 2021, members of our community have been compiling a white paper that aims to raise awareness of the environmental impact of our work, to suggest positive changes that we can make to our working practices and the infrastructure upon which they rely, and to identify the implications that these changes could...
When and where it is convenient to start working on a path for raising awareness on gender issues? Our answer is…early! The high school is definitely a good start! And if the need is in the schools we, the Italian (CNR -Italian National Research Counci- and INFN -Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) component of the “GENERA-network” decided to go there.
We act for a few years...
