  In 1980 Leon Lederman started Saturday Morning Physics with a handful of
volunteer physicists, around 300 students and all the physics teachers who
tagged along. Today Fermilab offers over 30 programs annually with help from
250 staff volunteers and 50 educators, and serves around 40,000 students and
2,500 teachers. Find out why we bother. Over the years we have learned to take
advantage of opportunities and confront challenges to offer effective programs
for teachers and students alike. We offer research experiences for secondary
school teachers and high school students. We collaborate with educators to
design and run programs that meet their needs and interests. Popular school
programs include classroom presentations, experience-based field trips, and
high school tours. Through our work in QuarkNet and I2U2, we make real particle
physics data available to high school students in datadriven activities as well
as masterclasses and e-Labs. Our professional development activities include a
Teacher Resource Center and workshops where teachers participate in authentic
learning experiences as their students would. We offer informal classes for
kids and host events where children and adults enjoy the world of science. Our
website hosts a wealth of online resources. Funded by the U.S. Department of
Energy, the National Science Foundation and Fermilab Friends for Science
Education, our programs reach out across Illinois, throughout the United States
and even around the world. We will review the program portfolio and share
comments from the volunteers and participants.
