IceCube Neutrino Observatory

October 1st, 2010 - September 30th, 2015 | PROJECT

"Ongoing collaboration-wide IceCube Neutrino Observatory Education and Outreach efforts include: (1) Reaching motivated high school students and teachers through IceCube Masterclasses; (2) Providing intensive research experiences for teachers (in collaboration with PolarTREC) and for undergraduate students (NSF science grants, International Research Experience for Students (IRES), and Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) funding); and (3) Supporting the IceCube Collaboration’s communications needs through social media, science news, web resources, webcasts, print materials, and displays (icecube.wisc.edu). The 2014 pilot IceCube Masterclass had 100 participating students in total at five institutions. Students met researchers, learned about IceCube hardware, software, and science, and reproduced the analysis that led to the discovery of the first high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Ten IceCube institutions will participate in the 2015 Masterclass. PolarTREC teacher Armando Caussade, who deployed to the South Pole with IceCube in January 2015, kept journals and did webcasts in English and Spanish. NSF IRES funding was approved in 2014, enabling us to send 18 US undergraduates for 10-week research experiences over the next three years to work with European IceCube collaborators. An additional NSF REU grant will provide support for 18 more students to do astrophysics research over the next three summers. At least one-third of the participants for both programs will be from two-year colleges and/or underrepresented groups. "

Project Website(s)

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Project Products

http://icecube.wisc.edu/

Team Members

Jim Madsen, Project Manager, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Silvia Bravo Gallart, Project Manager, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Award Number: 0937462
Funding Amount: 34693749

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Scientists | Undergraduate | Graduate Students
Discipline: Education and learning science | Physics
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Higher Education Programs | Informal | Formal Connections | Laboratory Programs | Media and Technology | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Public Programs | Websites | Mobile Apps | Online Media