G. Snow, University of Nebraska

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Northern Site Education and Outreach

• Contacts already made with schools
• Solidifying, establishing school partnerships
• Other Colorado cosmic ray outreach
• Program of SE Colorado outreach programs
• Funding a Northern Site outreach program

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Start of Northern Site Outreach Efforts

• J. Harton, G. Snow met with Southeast Colorado
  Board of
• School Administrators to discuss teacher and
  student
• projects, 1 September 2004
• All parties expressed an interest in
  establishing outreach
• programs connected to Auger science and
  scientists

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Schools Visited / Town Meetings
School visits Lamar Las Animas McClave Wiley Sprin
gfield Town meetings Lamar Springfield Las
Animas
Initial contact made with schools and communities
4
5K from Colorado governor to seed Auger
outreach in Colorado

• Portable beeping Geiger counter display
• Purchasing 3 of these for use in SE Colorado
  schools
• Also plan to fund a scintillator array at one
  school
• fashioned after Univ. of Nebraska CROP project

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Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) in Nebraska
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26 Participating Nebraska High Schools
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Summer 2005 CROP Workshop at UNL
Array of all detectors from all CROP high schools
at the University
8
Installation at one school in the next several
months
Lamar
Data acquisition cards in short supply
Upcoming proposal for Phase II of CROP
statewide expansion can include SE Colorado
extension
9
SALTA Snowmass Area Large Time-Coincidence Array

• Colorado
• Aspen High School, Aspen, CO
• Basalt High School, Basalt, CO
• Roaring Fork Valley High School,
• Carbondale, CO
• Lake County High School,
• Leadville, CO
• The highest-elevation school
• in the U.S. -- 10,152 feet ASL
• Illinois
• Wheaton North High School,
• Wheaton, IL

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The Henderson Mine Project
Henderson Mine (Empire, CO) is one of two
finalist sites under consideration for the Deep
Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory to
be anchored by the Underground Neutrino
Observatory
SALTA detectors used to measure cosmic ray
background rates underground.
SALTA students moved detectors to underground
locations. Data was collected September 29 -
December 8, 2004 monitoring 4 locations
2800-3900 feet below the surface.
Students are analyzing data to prepare a
report on cosmic ray muon rates as a function of
depth. http//crop.unl.edu/claes/SALTA/HendersonPr
oject.html
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A program of SE Colorado outreach
to be fleshed out with lots of input from the
Colorado collaborating institutions

• World-class visitor center at Lamar C.C.
• complex
• Series of public lectures
• Public events telescope viewings
• Frequent visits to schools
• Research projects for physics classes
• Joining the growing high school cosmic ray
• research network (CROP connection)
• Science fair projects/entries
• Teacher professional development programs
• Programs targeting Spanish speaking community

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Funding a Northern Site outreach program

• I believe the basic question is whether the
• collaboration
• Proposes an outreach program as part of the
• main Auger science/detector proposal(s)
• Submits a stand-alone outreach proposal, as
• I have seen for HiRes, IceCube,

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Final remark
Plans for Northern Site outreach should be
integrated in the planning and proposal process
for the Northern Auger Observatory