Mentor Motivation

Mentor Motivations to head a Quarknet group – intrinsic and extrinsic

1.  Outreach is part of their grant or a requirement of their tenure track.

2.  Provides department publicity within their university community.

3.  Get students interested in the physics field as their future goal.

4.  Draw academically oriented high school students to their university as enrollees.

5.  Increase awareness of science basics of questioning and evaluating evidence to create a more educated voting populace. 

6.  To stay involved with area high school physics teachers.