Soudan Lab
REQUIRED QUALIFICATION:
Undergraduate students who are studying in the science, engineering and/or education field to work at the Soudan Underground Lab for the summer.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
This position would involve working with the DNR giving science tours of the lab as well as continued development of our Outreach program. Our Outreach development will focus on the following types of projects this summer:
*Develop new lesson plans and labs for grades 8-12, especially for classes before and after their visit to the Lab.
*Develop new posters and information for NOvA, MINOS, CHIPS and CDMS research.
*We are hoping to do a new video projects for the web site and use in classrooms.
We expect some projects with the neutrino experiments, either hands on projects in the lab, including the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS), Numi Off axis Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) and the experiments in the Low Background Counting Facility (LBCF). Past projects have also included working with some of the experiment’s data and visually scanning for certain kinds of neutrino events in the data.
These positions are open for the full summer. Schedules can be flexible but our goal is to cover all tours which happen at least twice a day and 7 days per week. We will also have 3 high school science teachers and an Outreach Coordinator that you will work with you during the summer. Housing will be provided as needed.
The positions are for 10 weeks starting in early June and the salary is $12.00 hr.