Followup Events of Masterclasses in Slovakia Ivan Melo

Follow-up Events of Masterclasses in Slovakia Ivan Melo (University of Žilina) and Virtual Collaboration: A. Dirner, F. Franko, S. Hustava, M. Murin, Z. Palkova, G. Tarjanyiova, M. Gintner and J. Vanko Ministry of Education

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After Masterclass I am interested in physics … more as before less

Masterclasses have potential to go beyond the main 1 -day event

MC 2009 in Slovakia 350 students and 31 teachers from 45 high schools International MC Žilina Trenčín Regional MC Poprad Lipany Prešov Banská Bystrica Košice Trnava Bratislava Local TV and Radio National monthly Quark Local newspapers

Follow-up: Masterclasses Seminars Special feature: A lot of time for discussion !

Follow-up: Seminars at High Schools Feature: More general audience - not just students who like physics

Follow-up: Cascade projects 4 teams • What are we all made of ? Atoms – Quarks - ? • Particle Accelerators – How do they work? • Medical Applications of Particle Accelerators – What are they? • Recreating the Early Universe at the LHC Grand finals at Sučany high school, Jun 8, 2009

Follow-up: Cascade projects (cont’d) Feature: you watch student teams as they present the same subject to their fellow students even better than you did at Masterclasses

Follow-up: Regional Masterclasses For high schools far from university centers Lectures Computer exercise Videoconference 95 students in 2009 Lipany Poprad

Follow-up: Astronomy Masterclasses Asteroids, their trajectories and possible threat to Earth Computer exercise: http: //neo. jpl. nasa. gov/orbits

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Global Evaluation MC 2007 (Gabriela Tarjanyiova, U of Zilina) • 1482 questionnaires • data typed in by hand into SPSS (USA + Slovakia) • GER • ITA • POL • SVK • GRE • ESP • … • USA 343 259 181 127 111 6