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SLAC YPP's "Three Questions Project Kickoff Meeting"
on
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
at 5:00 pm
in the Orange Room
Hello YPP@SLAC folks,
Ever wondered what happened to the Three-Questions
Project, proposed at the Outreach Opportunities Meeting with Helen Quinn
a while ago?
Never heard of the Three-Questions Project before?
Interested in finding out?
The idea of the Three-Questions Project is for a
group of us Young Particle Physicists to team up with local high school
science classes.
We invite the students, each week, to ask us three
questions about physics. We will answer these AS A TEAM and send our replies
back to the
teacher, who will in turn share them with the class.
Hopefully, we'd also get to meet with the students themselves a few times
during the
semester or year.
As an introductory outreach project for YPP@SLAC,
it's simple, but it gives us a host of wonderful opportunities. By interacting
with these
students and each other, we have a chance to improve
our own skills at communicating physics to a wider audience. And we have
a chance to
make a real difference in these student's lives
- not only in helping them to learn physics, but in helping to change their
perceptions of
physicists. We're real and accessible people close
to their own age, who can tell them what it is really like to choose a
career in
science.
What we'd like to do this semester is run a "pilot"
project with one or two high school physics classes, taught by one teacher
at one high
school. Before we can put that in place, we need
your help!
*** For the start of this project, we will need about
10 committed people at SLAC. The time commitment is expected to be in the
region of 3
- 4 hours per week.
*** We will hold a kick-off meeting this coming Tuesday:
*** Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 5 - 6pm in the Orange
Room
If you're interested in learning more about the project
or are already convinced and would like to be included in the group of
10, please
attend. We are also happy to give you more detailed
information by email if you can't be at the meeting. Feel free to contact
us at any
time.
Looking forward to seeing many of you on Tuesday!
- Amanda Weinstein (amanda@slac.stanford.edu)
- Martin Mueller (mmueller@slac.stanford.edu)