Outreach Activities with the [mu]Cosmics Air Shower Detector

The Physics Laboratory of the Hellenic Open University has constructed a small scale and low cost air shower detector suitable for operation inside the classroom or school laboratory ([mu]Cosmics detector). In this work we present some of the educational activities foreseen with the [mu]Cosmics air shower detector, as well as the assessment of a first attempt to engage high school pupils to experimental procedures of astroparticle physics.