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Students and instructors celebrate 2 weeks of exploration and discovery at the first Cosmology Workshop
Workshop participants celebrate the final day of the two week workshop by receiving certificates of participation from George Smoot, having cake, and viewing photo slideshows and student video previews. Photo - Nocera
History and Structure of the Universe Standard Model of Particles and Interactions Evolution of Energy and Matter in the Universe / Chemical Evolution of the Universe
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Student Videos and Comix
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The student participants of this two-week cosmology workshop were enthusiastic 9th–12th grade students from high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. They had mixed academic backgrounds of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. There were 8 female students and 20 male students participating - 3 freshman, 2 sophomores, 14 juniors, and 9 seniors. The students were placed into teams with one teacher to do activities and group study. Most of the participants were applicants to the High School Student Research Participation Program at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. The teacher participants in the workshop selected some students from their high schools. The students represented a highly motivated portion of the high school student body interested in pursuing careers in science. Ten cosmos seeking teachers enthusiastically endeavored to seek out the universe. Most came from Bay Area cities including Palo Alto, San Bruno, Castro Valley, Alameda, Oakland, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, Woodacre, and one came from Fresno, California. Four women and six men were from public and private schools, with classroom teaching experience ranging from two to thirty-five years. One teacher left retirement to participate in the workshop. Another started teaching after finishing a career in engineering, and one taught middle school Life Science and Astronomy while preparing to be a grade school Science Specialist. Most were high school Physics teachers, although many also teach other courses such as Physical Science, Astronomy, Chemistry, or Calculus. Members of this group have participated in Quarknet, Hands On Universe, designing the Universeadventure.org website, and the Nano High Saturday morning lecture series given at LBL.
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Workshop organizers George Smoot, Stu Loken, and Rollie Otto
Hosted by The Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and the
The goals of the workshop are to:
_________________________________________________________________________ This is an extremely exciting time in cosmology. We have made a number of outstanding discoveries that have provided us with new fundamental questions and the tools we can exploit to deepen our understanding of the universe. These discoveries have come from a set of heroic observational efforts and a few brilliant insights. We expect more to come. It is wonderful to share these events and information with you. You will be part of an experiment in which students, teachers, and scientists will be teaching and learning as a model for a global cosmology education academy. George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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