In their final year the students are required to perform a final exam project. This consent is given by signing the application forms electronically. Enrollment in the program, and choices of courses to take within the program, is by consent of the guardians of the students, when students are underage. The high school students participating in this work were all enrolled in a national program at the Swedish “gymnasium”. The students participated as part of a course at their school, with a general introduction to research, given by their school, a one week visit to the research group, some months’ work in class, and a final report and poster session for classmates, parents, teachers, and research supervisors. We here report on computational physics research, in which a group of four senior-year high school students participated. Another way is to invite students to directly participate in research. Science centers and open-house days are ways to reach many people efficiently. Their experience from research exposure or participation in younger ages will form their view on research also in later phases of their lives. School children and youth are natural targets for this as they are already engaged in learning. One way to increase the public awareness is to let citizens participate in scientific research. It is important to convey research through education and outreach. Lack of science awareness affects how we, as citizens, can discuss and make collective decisions. This is a problem for a democratic society: research is often to some degree funded by the government, and results have bearings on how we live our lives, either applied directly or in how we perceive the world. In western societies, citizens are often not aware of research activities at universities and other research institutions. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.įunding: This work was supported by Vetenskapsrådet (VR, ) and Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (KAW, ). Received: ApAccepted: JPublished: August 9, 2016Ĭopyright: © 2016 Ericsson et al.
(2016) Involving High School Students in Computational Physics University Research: Theory Calculations of Toluene Adsorbed on Graphene. Citation: Ericsson J, Husmark T, Mathiesen C, Sepahvand B, Borck Ø, Gunnarsson L, et al.
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