The TEA activities Robert M. Morse tel: 608-262-3989, FAX: 608-263-0800 Dept. of Physics University of Wisconsin (4217 Chamberlin Hall). 1150 University Ave Madison, WI 53706, USA. http://alizarin.physics.wisc.edu/morse/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 09:54:56 -0500 From: James Madsen To: Bob Morse Subject: Re: TEA activities Here you go Bob. I have pasted the text in this message and also included it as a word document. Let me know if you need more. Feel free to edit whatever you like! Jim AMANDA TEA Activities for 2001-2002 The AMANDA collaboration is using the unique combination of cutting-edge science carried out in the extreme Antarctic environment to get science to a broader audience. Funding from NSF Grant DGE 139335 (Kindergarten Through Infinity-KTI) and the NSF supported TEA program has leveraged AMANDA funds to support teaching Astronomy in the Ice, an eight-day course at UW-River Falls that introduces the science of the AMANDA to secondary school teachers. During the summer of 2001, two TEA teachers, Mats Pettersson from Sweden and Jason Petula from Pennsylvania, used this course to obtain a thorough introduction to the science needed to fully capitalize on their the South Pole experience. The course also provided an ideal environment to network with the 20 other enrolled teachers, many of whom logged in to live web castes by the TEA teachers from the South Pole. Jim Madsen also spent two days at Tunkhannock Area High School in the spring of 2002, giving two two-day workshops to science students on particle physics and AMANDA science, and four joint auditorium presentations with Jason Petula to a total of 500 students. Eric Muhs, the TEA teacher for the upcoming Antarctic season, attended the 2002 Astronomy in the Ice with 14 other teachers, including three teachers Eric will mentor over the next few years as part of his TEA commitment. A follow up visit is planned in the spring of 2003 after he returns from the South Pole. To maximize and sustain the impact of the TEA program, Jim has facilitated sharing a cosmic ray detector that Eric Muhs built with Jason Petula. Preliminary plans are to have Jason collect data with this detector in Sweden in the fall when he visits Mats Pettersson. The same detector will be used by Eric to collect data at the South Pole. The TEA/Astronomy in the Ice connection has been presented at two National meetings. Searching for Dark Matter Through the Ice was presented at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2002. Jim Madsen and Steven Stevenoski, a master high school teacher, also ran a TEA sponsored workshop at the same NSTA meeting. Astronomy in the Ice: Bringing Neutrino Astronomy to the Secondary Schools was presented at the NASA Office of Space Science Education and Public Outreach Conference, June 2002. Bob Morse wrote: > > I just heard from the NSF---they want the report by close of business > on Aug 5, so get me what you can. Couple of paragraphs will be fine. > > Robert M. Morse tel: 608-262-3989, FAX: 608-263-0800 > Dept. of Physics University of Wisconsin (4217 Chamberlin Hall). > 1150 University Ave Madison, WI 53706, USA. > http://alizarin.physics.wisc.edu/morse/ > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, James Madsen wrote: > > > Hello Bob: > > > > I will get you something soon. I am going out to New Hampshire nest > > week to give an AMANDA talk to the new TEA group. > > > > Jim > > > > Bob Morse wrote: > > > > > > Jim---can I get a couple of paragraphs concerning the TEA activities > > > this year and last so that we can put it into our Annual AMANADA report > > > to the NSF which is due in a couple of weeks. No budgets are needed, just > > > activities, products, publications, contributions, etc... > > > > > > Cheers...Bob > > > > > > Robert M. Morse tel: 608-262-3989, FAX: 608-263-0800 > > > Dept. of Physics University of Wisconsin (4217 Chamberlin Hall). > > > 1150 University Ave Madison, WI 53706, USA. > > > http://alizarin.physics.wisc.edu/morse/ > > > > -- > > Jim Madsen (715) 425-3235 > > Professor, Chair FAX (715) 425-0652 > > Department of Physics > > University of Wisconsin-River Falls > > 410 South Third Street > > River Falls, WI 54022 > > -- Jim Madsen (715) 425-3235 Professor, Chair FAX (715) 425-0652 Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, WI 54022