2015

For me, QuarkNet was a series of firsts.  First time learning about cosmic rays, first time using an FPGA, first time using a Raspberry Pi, first time soldering with a microscope, first time seeing scintillators and drift tubes and first time sitting in on lectures in a lecture hall.  Also, being a…

Throughout the six weeks of the QuarkNet program, I worked mostly on the hardware side of the project. The goal was to build a detector that detects and measures cosmic rays. Upon first using the advanced lab equipment, I was introduced to things like scintillators and photomultiplier tubes that I…

Thanks for another great year of QuarkNet! This year the summer workshop was hosted by OU.  A special thanks goes out to Mike Strauss for organizing the event and to all of the presenters.  Or course, it wouldn't be possible without the excellent teachers who attended.  I believe there were over 20…

Four teachers attended Purdue's 2015 summer workshop which was held June 23-26.  Our lead teacher (Marla Glover) was joined by two new teachers and one returning for a second year.  As we have typically done when working with new teachers, the workshop focused on introducing particle physics…

QuarkNet activity at the University of Minnesota's QuarkNet Center in 2015 included participation in the International Masterclass, and a summer workshop for teachers centered around both LHC/CMS data and cosmic ray muon detector data analyses.   A total of 18 students and 3 local teachers…

The University of Notre Dame QuarkNet Center had four main areas of activity in 2015: student and teacher research (the largest), outreach, masterclasses, and an ongoing community of teachers and physicists.    Student and teacher research – and all of the Notre Dame QuarkNet activities – are…

The Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center currently has 1 active high school teacher, and is actively recruiting additional participants. Our lead teacher is Rebecca Jaronski. Rebecca participated in research at Virginia Tech during June and July, and attended Data Camp at FNAL, July 20-24. For her…

FSU’s QuarkNet center, now in its 16th year, presently has about 20 regular members, mainly from Leon County, but also a few from neighboring counties. During this last year we had a few meetings of “TeachMeet Tally,” a group loosely affiliated with QuarkNet, organized by Adam LaMee. These meetings…

QuarkNet Annual Report 2015 JHU Center The JHU QuarkNet center had another successful year, involving both high school teachers and students in its activities.  The one-week teacher workshop took place from 20-24 July, and the six-week student internship ran from 30 June to 9 August.  We had…