Discover the Cosmos Birmingham meetingSept 19th – 20th 2012

Activities in Birmingham UKSeptember 2011– September

2012Lynne Long, University of

Birmingham, UK

Activities: September 2011 - September 2012

• In the first year of the DtC project, UoB has

- in collaboration with UoG and LJM, organised and delivered 1 visionary workshop to ~ 26 high school teachers & advisors from all over the UK, feeding back comments etc at the DtC meeting in Athens in April 2012

Activities: September 2011 - September 2012

- organised and run 3 masterclasses involving ~ 200 AS students and teachers from the wider local area, introducing ideas of inquiry based teaching and using the Minerva Tool on the portal

- organised and run a Summer School for ~ 50 AS students from High Schools all over the UK, where one of the practical activities involved using the Minerva software analysis tool

Activities: September 2011 - September 2012

- ran interactive stands at 4 big national events (London, Poole, Sheffield, Vale of Glamorgan) involving 10s of thousands of members of the public

Activities: September 2011 - September 2012

- organised a Particle Physics Experience Day for ~ 24 GCSE students in the wider local area, using cloud chambers and cosmic ray telescopes and displaying their data in posters by the end of the day – trialling demonstrator activities…….

Posters produced

Activities: September 2011 - September 2012

- attended 4 international conferences, involving ~ 125 researchers, teachers & outreach specialists, in CERN, Innsbruck and Istanbul

- organised and took part in a meeting of national partners from UoG, LJM & UoC to plan implementation activities and training workshops in months 12-24 of the DtC project.

Activities planned so far September 2012 – September

2013• International Cosmic Ray Day – Sept 26th 2012 - Hands on

group activities with ~ 20 teachers and school students using cosmic ray telescope demonstrator, reporting data back to quarknet project

• Particle physics training (practice & reflection) workshop – Nov 28th 2012 (TBC) - Hands on activities with ~ 20 - 30 teachers from across the UK, using cloud chambers, cosmic ray telescopes and Minerva analysis tool – testing the demonstrators & collecting validation data.

• Teacher training workshop at ASE conference in reading in Jan 2013 – Talk & hands on use of Minerva analysis tool

• More student masterclasses/summer school• Summative workshop for teachers in collaboration with

UoG, LJM & UoC.