Most recently, several faculty (Butler, Heintz, Narain, Simmons) have been organizing a Saturday Academy program to be held for the first time March 6, 1999. Thirty-five students from local high-schools will come to BU for a program introducing them to recent discoveries in high-energy physics. After an introductory talk, the students will break into small groups for hands-on sessions with lab equipment and computer-based exercises in analysis of real data from D0 and LEP. This program will be repeated several times a year.

This April 13 & 14 will see the sixth annual presentation of the BU Pathways Program (http://physics.bu.edu/pathways) founded by Simmons. This event introduces young women in high-school to research and career opportunities in science, mathematics and engineering. The identical programs offered on consecutive days bring 600 students and teachers from schools in eastern MA to meet with over 150 women (and a few men!) working in technical fields. The HEP faculty participants (Narain, Simmons, Whitaker) offer tours of their lab facilities and make presentations in the poster/demonstration session, which affords students the chance for one-on-one conversation with researchers.

The BU members of the ATLAS collaboration (Ahlen, Simmons, Shank, Whitaker) have put together table-top experiments and an interactive educational web site (http://physics.bu.edu/ATLAS) with the support of ATLAS-Education grants. These materials formed the basis of an educational module on "The Quantum World of Particle Physics" presented to 200 middle-school students at the "Quantum World Day" program co-sponsored by BU and the IAAY (Johns Hopkins) on Oct. 5, 1997. Students split their time between web-based activities and table-top experiments including exercises in tracking (e.g. using WLS fibres), bending of particle beams in magnetic fields, and detection of cosmic ray muons. The materials are also used in the Pathways program and will form part of future Saturday Academy presentations.

The BU members of the CMS collaboration (Sulak and Sullivan) have been involved in related outreach programs, e.g., NSF (KDI) and NASA initiatives. it is anticipated that, as the CMS project takes off in the coming couple of years, there will be a significant educational outreach component.

For the last two years we have been a recipient of an ATLAS outreach award which we have used to hire a Lansing area high school teacher and a high school student. Both were actively involved over the course of the two summers on ATLAS hardware R&D relating to the design and construction of the ATLAS hadron calorimeter (Tilecal). They also participated in the development of several physics demos. The teacher has used these research experiences to convey some of the excitement of high energy physics to his high school physics classes.

George Alverson has worked with high school teachers doing research on Fermilab experiment E706 over several summers.

Darien Wood has conducted tours of SLAC and Fermilab for groups of students and of teachers. He is currently working with Carol Doherty of the Northeastern Center for Innovation in Urban Education to identify promising lead teacher.

Grannis: Presentations to LI Physics teachers, Honors College student groups, and WISE student groups; presentations at the local elementary school.

McCarthy: Organization of the Physics Challenge Exam in collaboration with the Long Island Physics Teachers Association (LIPTA) at two appropriate levels: Regents and AP. The exam is taken by approximately 30 schools in the Long Island, Connecticut , New Jersey area (about 2000 students) per year. Work with teachers in setting up a Learning Center for high school students. Yearly assistance with the Physics Olympiad.

Rijssenbeek: WISE courses (Women in Science and Engineering), undergraduate student research and Summer student research mentor. Junior and Senior advisor.

The teachers completed each an "Educational Transfer Plan", describing how they will transfer their experience into the classroom. One teacher brought her junior high school class into the laboratory for a full day of lectures and demonstration, another is building up a data base of outreach material for all teachers to use, and the third developed the curriculum for a class on elementary particle physics she is planning to teach this fall to her high school science class.

In addition the teachers spend one afternoon a week with personnel from SCIPP and the Campus to discuss outreach and how to bring science into the classroom. Based on these discussions, the teachers wrote a "white paper" critically evaluating their experience and our program. Their assessment was that bringing teachers into the laboratory to participate in on-going frontline research promises to reach the students in a very effective way through the excitement and increased knowledge of the teacher participants. In essence, the teachers are acting as interpreters, casting our message into the appropriate words familiar to students, and as ambassadors, given that a science teacher typically teaches up to 200 students each year.

Dzierba, Ogren, and Van Kooten have contributed their time for many physics presentations for advertisement and fund-raising for a grass-roots organization in Bloomington, Indiana called Wonderlab which is a "travelling children's science museum" currently in a temporary location, but looking for a permanent home. Ogren and Van Kooten as faculty members of the Indiana University Society of Physics Students have assisted and encouraged the participating students to a write a proposal leading to a successful March White Award to "promote interest in physics among students and the public". The award funding is being used to build a prototype Wonderlab display exhibit that detects and displays the paths of cosmic rays.

Dzierba, Van Kooten, and Ogren have mentored a number local high school students in their research programs in an NSF summer program Exploration of Careers in Science.

Dzierba and Van Kooten have given regular physics demonstration shows to area grade school children.

Dzierba has played a leading role in outreach to area high school teachers, particularly in Green county, in consulting and helping them enhance their physics and science teaching programs through regular visits and communications. He has also been instrumental in implementing an Advanced College Project (ACP) Physics Course at Indiana University.

However we have run numerous outreach activities (science alive at the South Bend/St Joseph County Public Library 1996-1999) for K-8 students and parents, and several school demonstration visits for elementary/middle school students.

We have over a decade of experience with research experiences for undergraduate students in physics as part of an NSF sponsored REU program, and 25 students have participated in particle physics research as part of this program.

In addition, we have given several public lectures on particle physics to general audiences.

Two of the University of Oklahoma members listed on this proposal to join Quarknet (Wei Chen, and Cahit Erkal), are high school teachers who teach at the Oklahoma School for Science and Math (OSSM). This is a two year science and math high school that accepts only the best Oklahoma high school students. (It is similar to the Illinois school in Aurora). Both of these teachers are adjuncts to our department and have Ph.D. degrees in physics (in fact they both did there thesis in theoretical high energy physics). These two teachers will work with us in helping to recruit high school teachers, and as advisors who have direct experience in the high school classroom. In addition, they have done educational outreach to other high school teachers through OSSM. This experience will also be extremely valuable to the rest of us as mentors.

Comments on outreach experience from the two principles:

Michael Strauss: As a graduate student I did two activities that intersected with high school physics teachers. First, I was a tour guide at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I conducted academic tours of the accelerator and detectors. These tours included an hour talk explaining the current status of high energy physics at SLAC and elsewhere, and a site wide tour of the facility. We often had local high schools attend these tours.

Second, I taught a series of classes in High Energy Physics and Cosmology at Los Gatos High School. This was a three day mini-series of classes for all physics students. The material was presented at approximately an introductory college level.

Phillip Gutierrez: As a postdoc at the University of Rochester, I spent most of my time at Fermilab working on the E706 experiment. During my time at Fermilab, I was able to work with a couple of high school teachers that were brought that participated in a Fermilab outreach program.

During the last three summers, I have work with three undergraduate students that participate in our REU program. The students have participate in a variety projects, from understanding the characteristics of silicon detectors to alpha particles, to helping with data analysis of DO data. The students have been able to get a fairly rounded experience in the use of computers, and high tech equipment. In addition, I have always felt that simply having the students work on a project is not enough, I try to spend some time explaining how their project fits into the overall goals of the experiment, and how it will allow us to extract new physics.

The remaining members of our group will act as support people during the first year, primarily helping in the recruitment of teachers. During the second and subsequent years, they will participate in providing short term projects and mentoring.

While a Lederman Fellow at Fermilab, Professor McFarland started and ran (until his departure from Fermilab) the Fermilab Teacher Fellowship. The Fellowship brought high school science and technology teachers to Fermilab for a one year period which was primarily spent doing research on a Fermilab experiment and secondarily doing curricular development related to the teaching of high energy physics in the classroom. During his tenure running the program, teachers from Vermont, Alaska and Pennsylvania worked on the NuTeV, KTeV and CDF experiments and developed both web-based and physical learning materials, including inexpensive muon lifetime and cloud chamber experiments for their classrooms. Professor McFarland also supervised one of the teacher fellows, Len Bugel, who continues to be involved in physics programs at Fermilab, and has worked with other teachers from the TRAC program while on NuTeV.

Professor Bodek has a long history of involvement in enrichment programs for secondary educators. Most recently, he has supervised joint research of a high school teacher and a University of Rochester undergraduate which resulted in a published paper on the energy loss of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray muons (A. Chikkatur et al, Z. Phys C74, 279 (1997)). Professor Bodek has also recently applied for and received an NSF grant to support two high school teachers over the next year. One high school teacher (Len Bugel) will continue working on the NuTeV experiment. A second high school teacher (Barbara Snyder) will be based at Rochester and will work on research in the Physics of Music. In addition, she will work on curriculum development for "The Physics of Music", an undergraduate course for non-scientists that may be adapted for use in high school. Professor Bodek has an extensive involvement in other educational outreach programs at Rochester, including his ongoing work as the PI for the University of Rochester summer REU program.

2) Prof. Ransom Stephens
Organised the "Discovery with ATLAS" Summer program in 1998. This involved 15 high school students being taught the basics of high energy physics for 2 weeks, followed by a similar 1 week course for high school teachers.

3) Prof. Kaushik De
Organised activities for visiting high school students. Participated in exchanges with physics students and teachers from Tarrant County Junior College.