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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