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3. International Masterclasses“Hands on Particle Physics“
15.3.2007-30.3.2007 http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org
EPPOG outreach meeting, Lisboa, 29.5.2007
Dave Barney on behalf of Michael Kobel
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Outline
OrganisationStatistics
Media Echo
Team, corporate identity
EvaluationQuestionnaire
My (i.e. MK´s) personal impressions
FundingCurrent
Possible future
Plans for the Future, funding assumed
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1) Statistics of Masterclasses 2007 (2006)
International Masterclass Weeks w/ video conf12 (12) pure student days: 15.3. – 30.3.07
1 (1) pure teacher‘s day: Mo 26.3.07
1 (0) mixed day students + teachers: Sa 17.3.07
~ 7 (5) institutes/ day = 92 (70) masterclasses
all days: both DELPHi + OPAL data for Z0 decaysoptional: WW pairs, alpha_s
Institute masterclasses w/o video conferenceJanuary – April: 9 (22) masterclasses(not counting the UK masterclasses)
Schedule http://www.physicsmasterclasses.org/mc/schedule.htm
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Participation
74 (59) institutes from 20 (18) countriescountries
new: South Africa and re-joined: Finland
Interest for 2008: Brasil, France
14 new institutes (not counting re-joiners) CH: Bern
DE: Göttingen, Wuppertal, Erlangen, Freiburg,
GR: Crete
SA: Witwatersrand
UK: QM-London, Bristol, Manchester
US: Baltimore, Tallahassee, Cincinnati, Notre Dame
16 (8) institutes w/ more than one student day
6 (5) institutes w/ additional teacher´s day
Estimated number of students: 4589 (3135)
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Media Echo
local media echo : nothing known, please report!
Larger articlesPhysics education (2005 evaluation: Erik, M.K., IPN)accepted and in print (June 07)
German Physical Society Journal „Physik Journal“1 1/2-page article by science writer (May 07)
Austrian Science Journal scIQ for Young People (May 07) http://sciq.agindo.info/people/index.cfm?useid=512by participant
CMS times, 30.4.07, by Dave Barney http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/outreach/CMSTimes.html
Fermilab Today, 30.3.07, by Christine Buckleyhttp://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2007/today07-03-30.html
…?
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Central organisationPeople and infrastructure at Dresden
Michael Kobel
Gisela Fischer (ATLAS/BABAR group secretary)
Felix Krüger (physics student) CD and Web Site
EVO Video Conferencetechnics:
Joao Fernandez, Viktor Michalcin, Marek Domarackyplus EVObeta team (CERN, Caltech, VK Slovakia)
moderators:Silvia Schuh, Dave Barney, Mike Lamont, Salvatore Mele
Quiz: (good to have it in local languages!) Silvia Schuh, Ken Cecire et al
National Organisationcontact persons in each country
esp. big support in US by Quarknet (Ken)
Local responsibles for each institute
Organisation Team
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Corporate Identity
DESY Zeuthen Experiments´Support (ExpS) madeAnnouncement Poster - A3, ppt, 2.8MB
Announcement Transparency - ppt, 0.7MB
Letter (e.g. for invitation) - A4, word, 0.7MB
Presentation, Lecture - ppt, 1.9MB
Participation Certificate - ppt, 0.4MB
Deduced from that at Dresden:
Quiz winners certificate(prizes just being sent)
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2) Evaluation
Evaluation 2005: just published in Physics Education
Evaluation (2006?)/2007: two Volunteer Groups Slovak Virtual Collab (esp. Kosice, Presov, Zilina)
38 institutes assigned, questionnaires from 23 received
Very first results today
Quarknet (Ken et al)36 institutes assigned, 18 received
Results soon
Special eval. from quarknet teachers (today)
Tedious work, typing in all by hand
Plans for 2008 and beyond (proposal):Charge professionial survey group at TU Dresden with
making questionaire machine-readable
Reading data into SPSS
Making pre-defined set of standard plots
Sending SPSS data to us for further/deeper evaluation
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J´avais des HAUTs , j´avais des BAS
Making of… schedule worked out well, faster than 2006 (not easy to distribute74 institutes evenly, very cooperative )
Web pages of new institutes: again a nightmare (with few exceptions)still: nice and useful to have them on Web and CDrom !
Distribution of CDs and DESY brochures (too few…) Thanks to CD company (CUE) and Veronika Werschner (DESY) ready and shipped well in time only few delivery problems, solved in time
Communications to (some) institutes(„… as already explained in my previous emails and on the Web...“) need shorter (and thus even more?) e-mails, Wiki?, both?, ….
Distribution of DELPHI and OPAL over the days: fineEverybody knew, what to measure and to report in EVO Conf.
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Bad Technical preparation of EVO *in quite some institutes*Good technical quality of EVO hidden by lack of local preparation(maybe the 1st EVO test was announced on too short notice?)Most Frequent flaws:
Equipment not tested in relevant environment
No echo cancelling devices used
Problems with H323 and EVO (at least in the beginning)
All this made some video conferences *really* bad!
Clear consequence for 2008:
Need *very* strict admission procedure to Video Conf
Video Conf is *the* part which makes the Corporate ID!
Admirable: Patience and competence of EVObeta team
Amount of testing by EVObeta team with 74 institutes
Patience of moderators in case ofSound problems
Quiet or tired students
Video Conf part is still the weakest part of the program,
but also the central connecting part!
We need to work on it, but should really keep it!
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3) FundingSo far funding (often in-kind) for
people (CD+updates, Website, Organisation):2005+2006: German research ministry BMBF2007: TU Dresden (not possible long-term)
hardware (CD, brochures, comics, card games)2005: EPS-HEPP(CDs) + CERN(comics) + DESY(brochures)2006: BMBF(CDs) + CERN(prizes) + DESY(brochures)2007: EPS-HEPP(CDs) + CERN(prizes) + DESY(brochures)
VRVS/EVO support2005-2007 CERN + Caltech + Slovak ministry
Future funding prospectsChance to get 4-5 year complete funding for a project„Transformation of Masterclasses from LEP to LHC aera“ from BMBF within special „Awareness of CERN“ program
Application in June/July
Would cover all expenses plus a ½ time personfor management and program amendment
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Let‘s be optimistic !
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4) Long term planning (assuming 4 years funding) a) MAIN needs and questions
Most to be coordinated by new management person to hire:New exercises
ASEC LHC exercise (Athens)Other new LHC exercises? Advanced (like WW, alpha_s)?Maybe astro-particlephysics exercise (France, Erlangen?) Trial sessions / trial days
Involvement of teachersPreparation and wrap-up at school (example: quarknet)Teacher‘s day(s)?
same fomat, more/different discussions? Combined with in-service training?
Develop special material for that?
Video conferenceNeeds thorough revisiting!Strict technical quality rules to be assuredAssure long-term technical support(EVO should be interested in us as use-case!?)Make moderator team (even) larger?
Assure long-term fundingAmple time for applications during 4 yearsExercise developpers, in-service training material
Do we need funding for that?Or e.g. cover it in student teacher theses?
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b) Further points for future discussion
Improve Media coverage, articles
Travels of students (and teachers) as prizes?
Automatize evaluation (see plans above)
ScheduleHow many days maximum?
How many institutes/day maximum?
How many masterclasses outside of central weeks?
Some separated Masterclasses in other time zones?(US, Brasil, ..)
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Summary
We made it again!
Teachers in Berlin
Students in Lisboa