2021

As more and more schools and universities tried to return mid-2021 to in-person classes, the Rice/UH #QuarkNet center saw opportunities to return to an in-person workshop for high school teachers. With the support of the QuarkNet leadership and Rice's Physics & Astronomy department the very…

This year we were thankful to gather in person at Florida State University July 28 - 30.  The workshop began with a focus on the g-2 experiment at Fermilab.  Ted Kolberg gave a talk on the experiment and the g-2 measurement's significance in the standard model.  In order to have a better idea of…

2021 was a bit of a revival for our Center at Virginia Tech!  After missing our workshop in summer 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, we were thankfully able to meet again (though virtually) in early August just before the school year started for the local school systems.    The workshop in…

This summer the Rutgers QuarkNet Center held two workshops on quantum computing for high school teachers, a two-week introductory workshop quantum computing attended by twenty high school teachers and and a one-week workshop attended by twelve high school teachers. The emphasis of the introductory…

We were not able to conduct a workshop in 2021, unfortunately. The summer period for Alachua County teachers was significantly reduced because of the impact of COVID, and PI D.Acosta was not able to schedule a workshop before end of July with our lead teacher. This will be Acosta's last year with…

QuarkNet 2021 Johns Hopkins University   Jeremy Smith, Kevin Martz and Morris Swartz worked together to plan and implement the workshop, with the help from many at Johns Hopkins University and QuarkNet. The workshop format was talks in the morning and lab activities in the afternoon. The theme…