  One of the biggest revelations of 20th century physics, is virtually unheard
of outside the inner circles of particle physics. This is the gauge theory, the
foundation for how all physical interactions are described and a guiding
principle for almost all work on new physics theories. Is it not our duty as
physicists to try and spread this knowledge to a wider audience?
  Here, two simple gauge theory models are presented that should be
understandable without any advanced mathematics or physics and it is
demonstrated how they can be used to show how gauge symmetries are used to
construct the standard model of particle physics. This is also used to describe
the real reason we need the Higgs field.
  Though these concepts are complicated and abstract, it seems possible for at
least first year students to understand the main ideas. Since they typically
are very interested in cutting edge physics, they do appreciate the effort and
enjoy the more detail insight into modern particle physics. These results are
certainly encouraging more efforts in this direction.
