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Greek Outreach Activity 2019-2020 International Particle Physics Outreach Group Greek Outreach Activity 2019-2020 May, 7-9, 2020 International Particle Physics Outreach Group IMC 2019 Participation in the IMC 2019 7 events (3 Athens, 2 Thessaloniki, 2 Crete) >500 st. (~800 applications) (for 2020, 2 events: Athens, Thessaloniki) Local MC in 2019 Piraeus (Feb.), Chios (Mar.), Larissa (Mar.), Corfu (Sep.), Gerakas (Oct.), Syros (Sep.), Serres (Dec.), (for 2020: Piraeus, Athens (2)) May, 7-9, 2020 International Particle Physics Outreach Group SCHOOL VISITS (Local or at the Univ. premises) … a detailed programme for NTUA Jan.: 1 (L), 1 (NTU) Feb.: 2 (L), 1 (NTU) Mar.: 3 (L), 2 (NTU) May: 1 (L) * Sep.: 1 (L) Nov.: 1(L), 1(NTU) Dec.: 1(L), 1(NTU) Participation in all-level school teacher training. Participation in the Researchers’ Night events. Outreach activities in all relevant scientific conferences around Greece. Continuous updating and enrichment of the Greek outreach site with articles, photos, charts, animations and software, all in Greek language, either original or translated (www.physics.ntua.gr/POPPHYS). May, 7-9, 2020 International Particle Physics the NCSR Demokritos group organised Outreach Group Cadet Researchers Education activity involving some of the brightest high school students (from Attica region) in experiments held in the laboratories of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP). 140 students from 18 schools applied. 8 students were selected. They visited the INPP labs for a week, they participated in experiments related to Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and Astrophysics. participate in the Researchers’ Night at NCSR Demokritos May, 7-9, 2020 International Particle Physics the Athens Univ. group participates in Outreach Group “Bringing nobel prize physics to the classroom” Erasmus+ Sept 2018 – Aug 2021 www.frontiers-project.eu (3 year long, 11 partners) EU “Science-for-Society” project. “Search for New Particles at the LHC” will use ATLAS Open Data displays by HYPATIA May, 7-9, 2020 International the NTUA group participates in Particle Physics Outreach Group UNIVERSE Host: Eugenides Foundation co-organised by: for EGO, Perimeter Institute, Athens National Observatory, ALL Athens Univ., Harokopio Univ., NTUA, 2 Primary Schools (Piraeus, Hill) Nov. 2019 (pilot event): 3 week-ends, 30 teachers (10 prim., 10 gymn., 10 lyc.) from Athens region (152 appl.) Specialised seminars for each level. Teachers send back reports for actions in the class. We schedule to repeat the event for 2 more years with teachers from all around Greece. May, 7-9, 2020 International UNIVERSE Particle Physics Outreach for Group ALL Targets of the programme are: • to encourage the teachers to transfer the scientific way of thinking and the research culture to their students, acting as prototypes and multiplicative factors in their local society, • to perform research, development and implementation of innovative and participatory educational acts in the classroom as well as outside of it, planning experiments adapted to the students needs. Among the events of the pilot programme we note: • Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics and CERN, • Introduction to Cosmology, • Cosmology and Microcosm with simple materials (lab), • Constructing a cloud chamber (lab), • Scientific Models: Black Box, • How do we make a black hole? Estimating the mass of Sgr A*, • The expanding universe, • Quantum reality: Wave-particle duality, • Evidence for climate change and temperature rising, • MasterClass using HYPATIA and ATLAS data May, 7-9, 2020.
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